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The Biden administration is set to unveil new details and announcements Monday on Paxlovid, Pfizer's antiviral Covid-19 pill, a White House official tells CNN.
The administration has plans underway to increase the availability and uptake of the Covid-19 antiviral drug, White House's Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha announced on Twitter over the weekend.
"Over the next week, you'll hear a lot more about what the Biden Administration is doing to make Pax widely available and easily accessible to all Americans," Jha wrote in a Twitter post Friday.
According to Jha's tweets, the administration is working on establishing more places where Paxlovid will be available, including more test-to-treat sites. The administration's nationwide test-to-treat initiative involves "one-stop" sites where people are offered free Covid-19 testing and, if they test positive, they can be prescribed free antiviral medications on the spot.
Jha also tweeted that plans include releasing education for providers on how to use Paxlovid "more regularly" for eligible patients.
'Uptake is very, very low and slow'
On the ground, it appears that the pace of Covid-19 antiviral pills being prescribed under the nation's test-to-stay program has not reached the level that health officials expected by this time, Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told CNN.
"The bottom line is the uptake is very, very low and slow despite there being a lot of these drugs in the market and available," Freeman said.
"But it doesn't seem like there's an embracing of prescribing and doing these test-to-treat programs," she said, adding that it seems "providers are worried about potential interactions with these drugs or that the drugs are not effective," and that might be why they're not prescribing them as expected.
But some providers worry that Paxlovid isn't safe for people with certain health conditions -- for instance it is not recommended for patients with severe kidney disease -- or the medications people already take for their underlying conditions might interact with the Covid-19 antiviral drugs.
"Timing is also essential" when prescribing the drugs, Freeman said, as the therapies have to be introduced quickly once someone tests positive for Covid-19, "especially with rapid spreaders like Omicron and the BA.2 subvariant."
"People may not be tested quickly enough to make prescribing antivirals for treatment possible, which is the key tenet of the test-to-treat program."
Freeman said that releasing more educational materials and provider instructions and raising awareness around how to safely prescribe Covid-19 antivirals might help providers to feel more comfortable participating in test-to-treat.
A call for Congress to pass Covid funding
There are two antiviral pills authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat Covid-19 at home: Pfizer's Paxlovid for people 12 and older, and Merck's molnupiravir for adults. Anyone in those age groups who tests positive for Covid-19 could be prescribed the medications to take at home.
"Paxlovid first became authorized by the FDA at the end of December. And there were very, very few pills around. The administration worked incredibly hard to both increase production and acquisition and the good news is we've made really substantial progress," Jha said during an appearance on NPR on Monday morning.
He continued, "Now we've got to turn those pills into prescriptions and into the things that patients can get so that they can get better if they get infected. We have a big set of efforts that we have been working on and launching and we're going to be doing a lot more this week."
There are enough Paxlovid pills "for the short run," Jha said, calling on Congress to pass an additional package to "fund acquisition of more pills" as well as possibility of other treatments.
The House and Senate are back this week as the White House is renewing its push for Covid-19 response funding. A $10 billion package stalled in the Senate ahead of the Easter recess amid disagreements over the administration's immigration policy.
"There's a lot of progress ahead but we really need Congress to step up and fund that progress," Jha said.
He laid out some of the consequences should Congress fail to pass additional funding.
The US will run out of money for Paxlovid "reasonably soon," Jha said, warning, "We actually aren't even going to be able to pay our bills for what we've already entered into a contract with Pfizer for, so that's going to be a problem."
Noting that the FDA is working to identify and develop "the next generation" of "more effective and more durable" vaccines, he suggested "Americans aren't going to access to any of those vaccines" without more funding.
And a lack of funding will impact US access to new Covid treatments, he said.
"We will not only not be first in line, we'll probably be last in line in getting those," Jha warned.
He expressed some confidence that Congress would come to an agreement but reiterated that the administration's request for $22.5 billion for the global Covid response was "really the bare minimum" for funding required.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The Friends of Children's Justice Center of Oahu and the State Judiciary's Children's Justice Centers released that the statewide total of child abuse cases jumped to 2,060 from 1,669 in 2020.
Numbers from 2021 also reflect that sexual abuse remains the highest form of abuse however cases involving domestic violence have also gone up.
“it’s overwhelming for my detectives. Unfortunately, these cases are nonstop. We have arrests at least twice a week and cases come every other day,” said Lt. Vince Legaspi, Honolulu Police Department Sex Crimes Unit.
The Oahu Girl Scouts Troop presented 773 brand new slippers at the conference. They used their proceeds from cookies sales to purchase and donate those shoes to abused children.
The number 773 represents how many children the Friends of Children’s Justice Center helped in 2021.
Statewide Director of Children’s Justice Centers of Hawaii, Jasmine Mau-Mukai, believes the increase of reported cases is due to schools reopening after the lockdown. She says children returning to in-person classes allows teachers and other staff to identify abuse.
“We get a large numbers of reports from teachers and counselors at school. They are a critical partner for us to be able to report child abuse and get a police report started,” said Mau-Mukai.
The organization provides a large range of items to the children during their healing process such as laptops, beds, groceries and clothing.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Investigators say a fire that caused major damage to a Waikiki apartment complex was accidental.
The fire broke out around 4 p.m. on April 22 at the Pacific Oasis apartment complex, located at Nohonani Street and Ala Wai Boulevard. The fire forced residents to evacuate as well as some guests at the neighboring Ilima Hotel.
On Monday, investigators with the Honolulu Fire Department said the fire started due to an electrical failure on an extension cord located on a balcony.
Firefighters first arrived at 4:08 p.m. and reported seeing heavy smoke and flames pouring from a fourth-floor apartment unit. The fire was extinguished just after 5 p.m.
The fire caused an estimated $489,000 in damage to the property and approximately $38,000 in losses of residents’ possessions.
The complex was equipped with smoke alarms, however, the fire “was discovered prior to their activation,” HFD reported.
There were no reports of injuries to any residents, but HFD said a pet cat died in the fire. It is unclear how many residents have been displaced because of the fire.
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62-year-old Elizabeth "Liz" Fahey was last seen wearing an orange and white tie-dyed dress with a long-sleeved gray hoodie. She was not wearing any shoes.
Elizabeth Fahey was found safe Sunday evening. She was taken to Queen's Medical Center for overnight observation. She is expected to go home Monday morning.
Her husband, Gordon, thanks the public for their help in locating her.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A Hawaii Kai man is asking for help from the public in looking for his wife after she wandered off from their Waialae Avenue home Saturday evening.
62-year-old Elizabeth "Liz" Fahey was last seen wearing an orange and white tie-dyed dress with a long-sleeved gray hoodie. She was not wearing any shoes.
Her husband, Gordon, says he came home from work after 9 p.m. and found Liz missing. She suffers from dementia after a severe traumatic brain injury.
He reviewed home security cameras and discovered Liz left the front door at about 6:30 p.m. She has not been seen or heard from since.
She is described as 5'2" tall, 110 pounds with long black hair and brown eyes.
A missing person's report has been filed with the Honolulu Police Department. If you see Liz, you are asked to call 9-1-1.
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A New York judge is holding Donald Trump in civil contempt after the state's attorney general's office said he did not comply with a subpoena for documents as part of its investigation into the former President's company.
Judge Arthur Engoron said Trump failed to abide by his order to comply with the subpoena, and that his attorneys failed to show how a search of materials held by Trump was conducted. Engoron said Trump would be fined $10,000 a day until he complies.
"Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously and I take mine seriously. I hereby hold you in civil contempt and fine you $10,000 per day until you purge that contempt," Engoron said at a hearing Monday. A written decision with a start date for fines is expected Tuesday.
Trump plans to appeal the decision, his attorney Alina Habba told reporters.
"We respectfully disagree with the court's decision today," Habba said. "All documents, as I explained, responsive to the subpoena were already produced to the attorney general months ago."
New York Attorney General Letitia James' office has been investigating the Trump Organization for more than two years and previously said her office found multiple misleading or fraudulent misstatements and omissions in the Trump Organization's financial statements, which were provided to lenders and insurers, among others, as part of its investigation.
Andrew Amer, with the attorney general's office, said that Trump has failed to produce "even a single responsive document" for a subpoena that was issued to him in December.
"We are being hampered in our efforts to have a complete understanding because we don't have evidence from the person who sits at the top of the organization," Amer said.
Kevin Wallace, with the attorney general's office, said in some instances it's been "like pulling teeth" to get documents needed for the investigation, and describing the Trump Organization as a closely-held family company with 500 entities and millions of dollars moving around.
In court, Habba said the former president does not believe he is above the law, but simply does not have the types of written communications that were sought by the subpoena, but that he produced hundreds of thousands of documents through his assistants. Habba said she herself searched Trump's hard copy calendars and physical file locations, and even interviewed her client in Florida.
"President Trump does not email. He does not text message. And he has no work computer at home or anywhere else," Habba said.
"I took it upon myself to get on a plane and flew down and asked him one by one if there was anything that he had on his person that he had not given me I would need that. And he did not," she said.
The judge asked why Trump didn't sign an affidavit swearing that he complied with the subpoena. Habba said that he would.
"My client is an honest person, much to the dismay of certain people in this room," Habba said.
James' office has said in court filings that the Trump Organization is under investigation for engaging in fraudulent or misleading conduct in connection with appraisals and financial statements. The office has subpoenaed both the former president and his company for documents related to its investigation.
Habba argued that the attorney general's investigation has "seemingly become aimless," saying that since it began three years ago, the Trump Organization has been given six separate subpoenas, produced more than 6 million pages of documents, and 13 Trump Organization witnesses have been deposed, among other things.
"The scope is continuously changing to fit the attorney general's needs," Habba said in court. "When it is not satisfied with the evidence it has obtained it pivots and looks for something new."
Judge orders Cushman and Wakefield to comply with NY AG subpoena
Also Monday, Engoron allowed James' office to add real estate services firm Cushman and Wakefield as a respondent to its legal action against the Trump Organization, and ordered the company to comply with a subpoena for documents.
At the heart of the subpoenas are appraisals from Cushman and Wakefield appraisers who worked on valuations for Trump Organization properties, as well as documents showing relationships between the two companies and internal communications about Cushman's decision to ultimately sever ties with the Trump Organization in January.
Austin Thompson, an attorney with the New York attorney general's office, said his office has identified "misstatements" made by appraisers who made valuations at a Trump Organization property in Westchester County, New York, known as Seven Springs. And while the statute of limitations on some of the appraisals may have run out, the office still wants to investigate other reports that may be more recent and indicated that the real estate firm could become a party to future legal action by the office.
"We'd like to understand whether these folks are committing misconduct today," Thompson said. "Cushman has made repeated misstatements in the documents we've seen so far, so we're entitled to look at other documents, other appraisals they've written."
Sawnie McEntire, an attorney for Cushman and Wakefield, said the four subpoenas the company has received from the attorney general's office since 2019 are "overly broad." He said the company has dealt with a dozen subpoenas for documents and witness testimony, including depositions with appraisers who worked on Trump Organization property valuations.
"We cannot be faulted because we believe their requests have exceeded what is legally required," McEntire said.
James' office is also seeking details on how much money Cushman and Wakefield has made from its relationship with the Trump Organization. McEntire said in court that the company made less than $200,000 doing business with the Trump Organization on the appraisal side of its business.
Engoron also granted the attorney general's office's request to file documents with the court only, because they contained information that could harm its ongoing investigation.
This story has been updated with the ruling on Cushman and Wakefield.
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Arby’s employee throws hot grease on customer, resulting in hospitalization, police say
HUEYTOWN, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) – An employee at an Arby’s in Alabama was arrested after police said she threw hot grease on a customer in the drive-thru Saturday.
Hueytown Police Chief Mike Yarbrough said the Arby’s employee “just snapped” when the interaction with a customer escalated.
Authorities responded to calls of an altercation between an employee and a customer. Police said the employee threw grease on the customer in the drive thru.
Yarbrough said the victim, a female customer in her early 30s, was in her car and had two children with her at the time.
The woman has secondary burns on a large portion of her body and is recovering at an area hospital, according to Yarbrough.
Officers arrested 50-year-old Shea Denise Peoples for first-degree assault. She was taken to the Jefferson County Jail on a $30,000 bond.
An Arby’s spokesperson said in a statement, “The actions of the former employee in Hueytown, AL, were reprehensible. We immediately terminated the offender, and we are cooperating with the local authorities in their investigation. Our heart goes out to the guest, and we are working to help support their recovery.”
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Family Dollar employee shoots alleged armed robber, police say
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A Family Dollar employee in Ohio said she returned fire at an armed robber after he allegedly shot at her while fleeing the store.
The employee told Cleveland police the man walked up to the cash register with a bag of chips to purchase, according to WOIO.
When a male employee went to give the man change, the suspect pulled out a gun and reached into the cash register, a crime report says.
The suspect then pointed the gun at a female staff member and started to flee the store.
That’s when, according to the report, the female employee grabbed her own gun and followed the man out.
The 28-year-old woman told police the suspect fired a shot at her and she returned fire, hitting him in the leg, the report said.
Officers took the employee’s gun into evidence and went to search for the man. They found an abandoned backpack that contained a gun in an area where the suspect was seen running, according to the report.
Surveillance video reviewed by police confirmed it was the suspect’s backpack.
Officers did not locate the alleged robber, and the incident remains under investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Cleveland police.
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Attempted murder suspect arrested in Beckley, W.Va.
Published: Apr. 25, 2022 at 4:09 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - Late Monday morning, the US Marshall’s Southern WV CUFFED Task Force arrested Bernard Reynolds, Jr.
Reynolds was tracked down after numerous tips from the community stated that he was seen in Beckley. He was found riding a bike in the area of 2nd and third street.
“We want to thank the citizens of Fayette County and the surrounding areas for all the tips and info on the possible whereabouts of Reynolds,” said Sheriff Fridley. “I also want to thank my deputies and the US Marshall’s Task Force who put in all the extra hours and long days and nights in the hunt to find this individual.”
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FDA approves Remdesivir to treat COVID in young children
Published: Apr. 25, 2022 at 4:22 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - There’s a new weapon approved to fight COVID-19 in small children.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Remdesivir to treat the virus in patients as young as 28 days old.
The antiviral drug is given as an injection.
It was previously approved for patients 12 years of age and older.
The FDA’s action makes it the first drug approved to treat COVID in kids younger than 12.
That’s important because there is still no vaccine for children under 5.
In order to receive Remdesivir, infected kids must either already be hospitalized or deemed at high risk for developing severe COVID.
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Florida governor signs bill creating election police unit
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday to create a police force dedicated to pursuing voter fraud and other election crimes, embracing a top priority of Republicans after former President Donald Trump’s false claims that his reelection was stolen.
The new law comes after the Republican governor made voting legislation a focus this year, pushing the Republican-controlled statehouse to create the policing unit as states reevaluate their own election systems in the wake of Trump’s unfounded allegations.
DeSantis, who is running for reelection and is widely considered to be a potential 2024 presidential candidate, has both praised the last election as smooth and suggested more rules were needed to deter fraud, underscoring Trump’s lingering influence on Republican policymaking. Critics have deemed the law politically motivated and unnecessary, arguing that local prosecutors can handle election crimes.
At a bill signing ceremony Monday at a sports bar in Spring Hill, Florida, DeSantis justified the need for the new law enforcement unit and suggested that existing law enforcement may not be equipped or willing to thoroughly investigate fraud cases.
“Some of them may not care as much about the election stuff. I think it’s been mixed at how those reactions are going to be. So we just want to make sure whatever laws are on the books, that those laws are enforced,” he said.
Voter fraud is rare, typically occurs in isolated instances and is generally detected. An Associated Press investigation of the 2020 presidential election found fewer than 475 potential cases of voter fraud out of 25.5 million ballots cast in the six states where Trump and his allies disputed his loss to President Joe Biden.
Republicans nationwide have stressed the need to restore public confidence in elections and have passed several voting laws in the past two years aimed at placing new rules around mail and early voting methods that were popular in 2020.
The law creates an Office of Election Crimes and Security under the Florida Department of State to review fraud allegations and conduct preliminary investigations. DeSantis is required to appoint a group of special officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement who would be tasked with pursuing the election law violations.
Existing state law allowed the governor to appoint officers to investigate violations of election law but did not require him to do so.
The law also increases penalties for the collection of completed ballots by a third party, often referred to as ballot harvesting, to a felony. It raises fines for certain election law violations and requires that election supervisors perform voter list maintenance on a more frequent basis.
Democrats, the minority party in the state Legislature, have criticized the bill as a way for DeSantis to appeal to Republican voters who believe the 2020 election results were fraudulent, while the governor flirts with a presidential run of his own.
“DeSantis’ so-called election reform legislation is a continued attack by the Republican Party to generate public distrust in the integrity of our elections. The bill is unnecessary and a waste of taxpayer funds,” said Rep. Tracie Davis, a Democrat.
In late March, a federal judge struck down portions of a sweeping election law passed last year in a blistering ruling that alleged the state’s Republican-dominated government was suppressing Black voters, and ordered that attempts to write similar new laws in the next decade must have court approval.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker overturned a provision of last year’s law limiting when people could use a drop box to submit their ballot, along with a section prohibiting anyone from engaging with people waiting to vote. He also blocked a section that placed new rules on groups that register voters, including one requiring that people working to register voters submit their names and permanent addresses to the state.
The DeSantis administration is working to reverse Walker’s ruling.
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Florida sheriff encourages residents to shoot intruders to ‘save taxpayer money’
PACE, Fla. (Gray News) – A sheriff in Florida is encouraging residents to learn how to shoot intruders to “save taxpayer money,” he said during a press conference Thursday.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson was holding a press conference in reference to the arrest of Brandon Joseph Harris, 32, who Johnson said was breaking into multiple homes Wednesday in Pace, located about 15 miles north of Pensacola.
Johnson said Harris has been known to law enforcement since he was 13 years old and since then has had 17 arrests. Harris spent more than six years in prison for home invasion.
According to Johnson, during Harris’ string of break-ins on Wednesday, one homeowner fired shots at him. The sheriff’s office is now trying to identify that homeowner and offered to train the person to be a more accurate shooter.
“Whoever that was, you’re not in trouble. Come see us, we have a gun safety class we put on every other Saturday, and if you take that, you’ll shoot a lot better and hopefully you’ll save taxpayers money,” Johnson said.
Johnson doubled down on his statements, reiterating that homeowners are well within their rights to shoot at someone who is breaking into their home.
“If somebody is breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. We prefer that you do, actually,” Johnson said.
Johnson expressed disappointment that Harris was not injured during the encounter with the homeowner.
“Of course [Harris] didn’t get hit [with bullets], and now we have to pay for him,” Johnson said.
Deputies were able to corner Harris inside a home and arrested him. Johnson said Harris already had active warrants, and he is now facing seven additional charges for the events that unfolded on Wednesday.
“Some people don’t learn,” Johnson said. “For us, he is job security. I mean, we deal with him all the time.”
Harris was booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail. His bond is set at $157,500.
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McCarthy downplays remarks about Trump in secret recording
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday downplayed secretly recorded remarks he made about Donald Trump shortly after last year’s attack on the Capitol. He also said he never told the then-president that he should resign — something news organizations have not reported.
McCarthy’s comments were his first public remarks since The New York Times reported last week that on a Jan. 10, 2021, phone call with fellow Republicans, he said he was “seriously thinking” about telling Trump “he should resign.” McCarthy initially called that report “totally false and wrong.” The newspaper later released a recording of him making those remarks and it was played on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show.
The Times and others have not reported that McCarthy ever followed through and called Trump to urge him to step down. Critics have said the recordings and his denial of what he said show McCarthy to be a liar.
Trump was impeached by the House, but exonerated by the Senate, for encouraging a mob of his supporters who violently stormed the Capitol trying to disrupt Congress’ counting of the Electoral College votes in his November 2020 reelection defeat.
McCarthy, R-Calif., said Monday that a reporter — one of two Times reporters who have written a book that includes the recorded conversation — called him “the night before he released the book.”
“My understanding is he was saying, ‘Did I ask President Trump to resign?’ No, I never did, and that’s what I was answering,” McCarthy told reporters Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, after touring the border with other Republicans.
Reports have not said that McCarthy definitively told Republicans that he would urge Trump to step down, only that he was thinking seriously about it.
McCarthy also said Monday that “I never did” tell GOP colleagues “that we’re going to ask” Trump to resign.
Before he took the question Monday about the audio, McCarthy and his GOP colleagues spent 30 minutes describing what they said are dangerous conditions at the border and blaming President Joe Biden for them.
“After all this, that’s what you want to ask?” he said when the reporter asked about the recording. He said people care more about border security and other issues.
McCarthy was asked directly in an interview earlier Monday with Fox News Channel whether he had lied when he said, before the audio’s release, that the Times’ reporting was false.
“No,” he said, saying he’d been asked if he’d called Trump and told him to resign.
He also told Fox he believes the episode won’t have “any impact at all” on his hopes of becoming speaker if, as seems likely, Republicans win House control in November’s elections.
So far McCarthy’s bid to become speaker seems on track. Trump, whose influence over the GOP is unrivaled, said after the audio’s release that he still likes McCarthy.
While most House Republicans have said little so far about whether they would back McCarthy for speaker, those who’ve spoken out have said they still support him.
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Police chief releases name of officer who shot Patrick Lyoya
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan police chief reversed course Monday and publicly identified the officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head during an April 4 traffic stop.
The Grand Rapids officer is Christopher Schurr, Chief Eric Winstrom said.
Lyoya, 26, a Black man and native of Congo, was killed after a struggle with the white officer.
“In the interest of transparency, to reduce ongoing speculation, and to avoid any further confusion, I am confirming the name already publicly circulating — Christopher Schurr — as the officer involved in the April 4 officer-involved shooting,” Winstrom said in a statement.
The Associated Press left a phone message seeking comment from Schurr, who remains off the job while state police investigate the shooting.
Winstrom’s announcement was a reversal. In the aftermath of the shooting and the release of video, Winstrom said he would withhold the officer’s name unless he was charged with a crime. It was described as a long-standing practice that applied to the public as well as city employees.
Lyoya’s family and Black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, repeatedly called for release of the name.
“We want his name!” Sharpton shouted at Lyoya’s funeral on Friday, saying authorities cannot set a precedent of withholding the names of officers who kill people unless the officer is charged.
Lyoya, who was unarmed, was face down on the ground when he was shot. Schurr was on top of him and can be heard on video demanding that he take his hand off the officer’s Taser.
A forensic pathologist who conducted an autopsy at the family’s request said the gun was pressed to Lyoya’s head when he was shot.
Ven Johnson, an attorney for the family, said it’s important that Lyoya’s parents now know Schurr’s name, though he scoffed at the police chief’s use of “transparency.”
“It’s not transparent when you hide something for three weeks. It’s quite the opposite,” Johnson said. “It’s cops taking care of the cops instead of treating it like a normal investigation.”
After Lyoya’s funeral, Grand Rapids City Manager Mark Washington acknowledged the demand for the officer’s name and said he would discuss the matter with Winstrom and city employment officials.
“Police reform requires evaluating many long-standing practices to ensure our actions are consistent with the best interests of the community and the individuals involved,” Washington said last week.
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Condon reported from New York. White reported from Detroit. Associated Press reporter Corey Williams in West Bloomfield, Michigan, also contributed.
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Rich trio back on Earth after charter trip to International Space Station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Three rich businessmen returned from the International Space Station with their astronaut escort Monday, wrapping up a pricey trip that marked NASA’s debut as a B&B host.
Flying back in a SpaceX capsule, they splashed down in the Atlantic off the Florida coast to close out a 17-day tour that cost them $55 million apiece.
The trip was supposed to last a little over a week, but dicey weather kept the visitors in orbit almost twice as long as intended.
“Welcome back to planet Earth,” radioed SpaceX Mission Control from Southern California. “We hope you enjoyed the extra few days in space.”
“Amazing mission,” said real estate tycoon Larry Connor.
Before departing the space station Sunday night, the group thanked their seven hosts, including three NASA astronauts whose own mission is nearing an end.
It was the first time NASA opened its space hatches to tourists after shunning the practice perfected over the decades by Russia. Last fall, a Russian film crew flew up, followed by a Japanese fashion mogul and his assistant. In each case, an active-duty cosmonaut traveled with them.
The latest guests were accompanied by a former NASA astronaut now working for Axiom Space, the Houston company in charge of the flight, making it the first fully private trip to the space station.
After hosting longer than expected, NASA was itching to make room for the next crew. SpaceX will attempt to launch three NASA astronauts and one Italian to the space station as soon as Wednesday. They’ll replace the three Americans and a German up there since November who will head back to Earth in their own SpaceX capsule.
The pace is blazingly fast by NASA standards. “It’s absolutely exciting,” said NASA flight director Zeb Scoville.
Axiom handled the logistics for the trip for its three paying customers: Connor from Dayton, Ohio; Canadian private equity CEO Mark Pathy; and Israeli investor Eytan Stibbe of Tel Aviv. Their chaperone was Michael Lopez-Alegria, an Axiom vice president who flew to space four times while a NASA astronaut.
It was an “amazing adventure that we’ve had, even longer and more exciting than we thought,” Lopez-Alegria said after departing the space station.
Axiom teamed up with SpaceX for the journey that began with an April 8 liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It was SpaceX’s second private flight, coming just months after a billionaire’s orbital jaunt with contest winners.
While in space, the visitors did experiments and peered back at Earth.
“It’s been eye-opening in so many ways,” Pathy said, “that I think will have such a lasting impact on my life.”
The experience was especially personal for Stibbe. He served as a fighter pilot under Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut who died aboard space shuttle Columbia in 2003.
Stibbe flew copies of the surviving pages of Ramon’s space diary, as well as artwork and music created by Ramon’s children. He celebrated Passover with matzah bread he took up and gefilte fish offered by the station’s Russians.
Axiom’s second flight is set for early next year as the company looks ahead to having its own space station by 2030.
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Trump says he has no plans to rejoin Twitter after Musk deal
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he has no intention of rejoining Twitter even if his account is reinstated following Elon Musk’s agreement to buy the social media giant for roughly $44 billion.
Trump told Fox News that he will instead focus on his own platform, Truth Social, which has been mired in problems since its launch earlier this year.
“I am not going on Twitter. I am going to stay on Truth,” Trump was quoted telling the network. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth.”
Trump was barred from major social media platforms after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, with Twitter citing the “risk of further incitement of violence.” The decision denied him the megaphone he had used to generate media attention and speak directly to his followers, which had been integral to his political rise.
At the time, the former president had roughly 89 million followers on Twitter alone.
Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and a self-described free-speech absolutist, had said he wanted to buy and privatize Twitter because he believed it wasn’t living up to its potential as a free speech platform. It raised questions about whether he might reinstate Trump’s account as the former president lays the groundwork for another White House run in 2024.
Trump has continued to spread lies about his 2020 election defeat in speeches and statements since leaving office, and it is unclear how Musk would approach those statements if Trump were ever to return to the site.
In recent weeks, Musk has voiced a number of proposed changes for the company, including relaxing its content restrictions, and said he would be “very reluctant” to delete content and cautious of permanent bans.
After being kicked off social media platforms, Trump launched his own social media app and sued Twitter, Facebook and Google’s YouTube, claiming he and other conservatives had been wrongfully censored, even though posts by conservative commentators are routinely the most widely shared.
On Monday, he said he welcomed Musk’s purchase and told Fox News he didn’t see Twitter as his own product’s competition.
“Truth Social will be a voice for me,” he said. “And that’s something nobody else can get.”
At a rally in Ohio on Saturday, Trump also urged his supporters to join him on Truth Social.
“Go out and sign up now,” he told them. “Have a lot of fun.”
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Americans are switching from traditional casket funerals to cremation
PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) - The Cremation Association of America reports, that out of the over 3.3 million deaths in the U.S. in 2020, more than 56% of those people were cremated.
We asked people their thoughts on Cremation versus traditional burials.
Price seems to be the main driver for the choice of cremation. The average price for a casket burial is over $4000 more than cremation. The President of Seaver Funeral Services in Princeton confirms the price point is the main reason he’s encountered when people are making that decision.
Considering the current state of the economy and the rise in inflation, Sever had some suggestions for people faced with making funeral arrangements.
‘The National Funeral Directors Association’ reports if current trends hold, 70% of Americans will be choosing cremation by 2030.
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EXPLAINER: What’s next now that Twitter agreed to Musk bid?
(AP) - Twitter’s acceptance of Elon Musk’s roughly $44 billion takeover bid brings the billionaire Tesla CEO one step closer to owning the social media platform.
The deal is expected to close sometime this year. But before that, shareholders still have to weigh in, as well as regulators in the U.S. and in countries where Twitter does business, before the deal is completed.
OFFER ACCEPTED, NOW WHAT?
The process is off to a good start for Musk, given that Twitter’s board has unanimously approved his offer and is recommending shareholders do the same.
Upon announcing the deal Monday, Twitter noted that the bid, which represents a 38% premium to the company’s closing stock price on April 1, is a “substantial cash premium” and would be “the best path forward for Twitter’s stockholders.”
When Twitter’s board adopted an anti-takeover provision known as a “poison pill” just 10 days ago, the move was widely seen as a telltale sign that the directors were gearing up to rebuff Musk’s opening offer or perhaps seek another suitor willing to pay more.
But the battleground shifted dramatically late last week when Musk disclosed he had lined up $46.5 billion — including $21 billion of his personal fortune — to pay for the purchase. Musk said other investors could contribute to the financing.
The locked-in financing not only underscored the seriousness of Musk’s pursuit, but also appeared to open the door to other large Twitter shareholders interested in hearing more about his plans for the San Francisco company.
The details of those conversations aren’t known, but Musk could point to a more than 20-year history building and running several businesses — most notably as the longtime CEO of Tesla. The electric car maker is currently valued at $1 trillion -- roughly 25 times more than Twitter.
“I think there is nothing better for Twitter than Elon Musk buying it and ideally replacing the board, and also doubling down on investments into products and new revenue-generating sources,” said John Meyer, a technology entrepreneur and investor. “Musk has the track record that he can do the impossible.”
It would be easy to see why other Twitter shareholders might welcome a shake-up, as well as an opportunity to cash out of their investment. Before Musk disclosed his 9% stake in Twitter earlier this month, the shares were trading below $40 — not that much more it its $26 price when Twitter went public in November 2013. Since then, the tech-driven Nasdaq has more than tripled, even after a recent downturn. Twitter has been a laggard because the company has struggled to consistently post profits while generating lackluster revenue growth compared to the two dominant forces in digital advertising, Google and Facebook.
Meanwhile, Tesla’s stock is now worth nearly 300 times more than when it went public in 2010. And after struggling to make money for more than a decade, the automaker is now extremely profitable with net income of $3.3 billion during the first three months of this year alone.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
As is customary once a company agrees to be acquired, the buyer gets to take a closer look at its books to make sure there aren’t any red flags that haven’t come up via the company’s public filings.
This step in the process isn’t likely to cause any obstacles for the deal, said Angelo Zino, tech analyst at CFRA.
“He’s acquiring this company, not from a financial perspective,” Zino said. “He’s going to do what he wants with it and he’s probably going to look to make significant changes to the business model of the company.”
WHAT SAY COULD REGULATORS HAVE?
Last year, Twitter generated $5 billion in revenue, with $2.8 billion from the U.S. and the rest earned overseas, Zino said. The Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., or the European Commission in the EU, are among regulatory agencies that may review the proposed Twitter buyout.
The main issues the agencies generally focus on are how the sale of a company could affect competition in an industry, or whether it violates antitrust laws.
These reviews can take months, or longer, but generally represent more of a potential hurdle when two companies in the same industry are combining, or in the case of a single buyer, whether ownership already has a large stake in companies within the same industry.
Neither Tesla, nor Musk’s other company, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, are social media platforms, so antitrust concerns are not expected to arise when regulators review the deal, analysts said.
“We do not expect any major regulatory hurdles to the deal getting done as this soap opera now ends with Musk owning Twitter,” Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives wrote in a research note Monday.
WHEN DO SHAREHOLDERS GET TO VOTE?
The deal is expected to close in 2022, subject to the approval of Twitter shareholders. Twitter hasn’t announced the timing of a shareholder vote, though the company’s annual meeting is set for May 25, which could offer a convenient time to poll shareholders.
A company can elect to hold a shareholder vote at any time, even before regulators have finished reviewing a proposed takeover.
WHAT ABOUT TWITTER LEADERSHIP?
At this early stage, it’s unclear what will happen to Twitter’s current board or management team if the deal is completed, but Musk has made it abundantly clear that he believes the company has been poorly run. That assessment is a strong indication that Musk’s makeover will also include a purge of Twitter’s top ranks.
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Food truck owners raise money after accident
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - The owners of the local food truck, Tacos De Marcos, were involved in a car accident in South Carolina on Friday.
The family was driving their new food truck back to West Virginia when the accident occurred.
The family said their daughter was taken to the hospital and was treated for a minor brain bleed.
“I am just really thankful to all of the customers that showed loyalty to me yesterday, and a lot of them talking about seeing the post and they were heartbroken. We also made a page off Facebook (GoFundMe) if anyone wants to support us they can go find it.”
The business is currently operating out of an old food truck. If you would like to donate to the GoFundMe page, click here.
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Off-Broadway production on UBB mine disaster set for Beckley
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - An off-Broadway production based on the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is set to be performed at Woodrow Wilson High School.
Theatre West Virginia announced Monday the play, titled ‘Coal Country,’ will come to the Mountain State after it returned to a New York stage earlier this year. It tells the stories of the disaster 12 years ago with, “first-person accounts from survivors and family members,” according to the theater group.
“I’m not a much of a sculptor and if I could have made a Mount Rushmore to these 29 men I would have, so everything we are doing is done respectfully and it’s in the words of the West Virginians who have lived it,” said Erik Jensen, one of the writers of ‘Coal Country.’ “We are documentary theater-makers. We aren’t making stuff up.”
The play consists of veteran actors and Grammy Award-winning artist Steve Earle.
The production team advised viewer discretion.
“There are scenes in this that are graphic when it comes to the aftermath of the explosion, of what happened and the folks that were there that day,” said Earle. “One of the most important parts of the story is what happened to the people that survived since it’s their story.”
The play is set to be performed Monday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be free on a first come, first serve basis.
“I think we are going to have a full house that night,” said Steve New, a board member with Theatre West Virginia. “West Virginians are the greatest people in the world and there is no tragedy that we will ever let anyone else define us. We will always help each other through something like this.”
The first 400 seats are reserved for family members who lost loved ones at Upper Big Branch, as well as survivors and former employees. They can email coalcountryticketsubb@gmail.com for more information.
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Our warm-stretch comes to an end tomorrow; cooler with rain around Tuesday
A cold front will head our way overnight
Cloud cover will increase through the evening, and the breeze will pick up a bit, but for most of the night, we look dry. As a cold front heads in, we’ll see developing showers after midnight tonight. Temps will hover in the 50s and low 60s through early Tuesday AM.
Rain looks likely (on and off) for most of the day Tuesday. While most of the rain will be on the lighter end, a few rumbles of thunder and some locally heavy downpours will be possible. Temps will hover in the 50s through the day Tuesday, as cooler air surges in on a NW breeze.
By Tuesday night, we’ll be drying out and clearing out quickly. but we’ll be much colder. Low temps will fall into the 30s and low 40s Tuesday night-early Wednesday.
Wednesday looks sunny, dry, and cool, with highs in the mid-50s to low-60s. We’ll be a bit windy too, which will make it feel cooler, so have that coat, especially during the morning. Wednesday night, we’ll be clear and calm, but low temps will bottom out in the upper 20s-low 30s. If you’ve got any sensitive plants, make sure to cover them up or bring them inside!
Thursday and Friday look dry and seasonable. with highs around the 60 degree mark and plenty of sun. We’ll warm up a bit into the weekend, but look to gradually grow unsettled again...stay tuned!
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Pass urgent COVID funding or more will die, White House says
WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of the past two years, America has been first in line for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Now, as drugmakers develop the next generation of therapies, the White House is warning that if Congress doesn’t act urgently the U.S. will have to take a number.
Already the congressional stalemate over virus funding has forced the federal government to curtail free treatment for the uninsured and to ration monoclonal antibody supplies. And Biden administration officials are expressing increasing alarm that the U.S. is also losing out on critical opportunities to secure booster doses and new antiviral pills that could help the country maintain its reemerging sense of normalcy, even in the face of potential new variants and case spikes.
Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Hong Kong have all placed orders for treatments and vaccine doses that the U.S. can’t yet commit to, according to the White House.
Months ago, the White House began warning that the country had spent through the money in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that was dedicated directly to COVID-19 response. It requested an additional $22.5 billion for what it called “urgent” needs in both the U.S. and abroad.
The Senate last month closed in on smaller $10 billion package focused on domestic needs. But even that deal fell apart as lawmakers objected to an announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it would end Trump-era border restrictions related to the pandemic.
The White House this week is mounting a push for doctors to get less stingy about prescribing the antiviral pill Paxlovid, which was initially rationed for those at the highest risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 but is now more widely available. A 20 million-dose order placed last year by the government helped boost manufacturing capacity.
Paxlovid, when administered within five days of symptoms appearing, has been proven to bring about a 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease. Some 314 Americans are now dying each day from the coronavirus, down from more than 2,600 during the height of the omicron wave earlier this year.
The U.S. used similar advance-purchase agreements to boost the domestic supply and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, through what was known in the Trump administration as “Operation Warp Speed.”
Now, with a new generation of treatments on the horizon, the U.S. is falling behind.
Japan has already placed an initial order for drugmaker Shionogi’s upcoming COVID-19 antiviral pill, which studies have shown to be at least as effective as Pfizer’s treatment and has fewer drug-to-drug interactions and is easier to administer.
Because of the funding delays, officials say, the U.S. has yet to place an advance order, which would help the company scale manufacturing to widely produce the pill.
“We know companies are working on additional, promising life-saving treatments that could protect the American people, and without additional funding from Congress, we risk losing out on accessing these treatments, as well as tests and vaccines, while other countries get in front of us in line,” said White House spokesman Kevin Munoz. “Congress must act urgently upon return from recess to provide the funding needed to secure new treatments for the American people and to avoid this dangerous outcome.”
Complicating matters further are the long lead times to manufacture the antiviral and antibody treatments. Paxlovid takes about six months to produce, and monoclonal antibody treatments used to treat COVID-19 and prevent serious disease in the immunocompromised take similarly long, meaning the U.S. is running out of time to replenish its stockpile before the end of the year.
Last month the White House began cutting back shipments of monoclonal antibody treatments to states to make supplies last longer.
Administration officials declined to discuss specific treatments they are stymied from ordering because of contracting requirements.
The funding debate is also holding up U.S. purchases of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses, including an upcoming new generation of vaccines that may better protect against the omicron variant.
Moderna and Pfizer both are testing what scientists call “bivalent” shots — a mix of each company’s original vaccine and an omicron-targeted version — with Moderna announcing last week it hopes to have its version ready this fall.
The Biden administration has said that while the U.S. has enough vaccine doses for children under 5, once they are approved by regulators, and for fourth shots for high-risk people over 50, it doesn’t have the money to order the new generation of doses.
Earlier this month, former White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Hong Kong had already secured future booster doses.
Republicans have shown no signs of backing down from their insistence that before supplying the 10 GOP votes needed for the COVID-19 funding package to pass the Senate, the chamber must vote on their effort to extend the Trump-era Title 42 order. That COVID-linked order, which requires authorities to immediately expel nearly all migrants at the border, is set to be lifted on May 23.
An election-year vote to extend that order would be perilous for Democrats, and many hope no such vote occurs. Many say privately they hope Biden will keep the immigration curbs in place or that a court will postpone the rules’ termination, but Republicans could well force a vote anyway.
“Congress would have to take action in order for the day not to be May 23,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said early this month that he expected legislation this spring that would wrap together funds for COVID-19 and Ukraine. Aid for Ukraine has wide bipartisan support and could help propel such a package through Congress, but Republican opposition has already forced legislators to strip out pandemic response funding once.
There are at least six Democrats, and potentially 10 or more, who would be expected to back the Republican amendment to extend the immigration order, enough to secure its passage.
Such a vote would be dangerous for Democrats from swing districts, who must appeal to pro-immigration core Democratic voters without alienating moderates leery of the increase in migrants that lifting the curbs is expected to prompt.
Republicans haven’t said what language they would embrace, but they could turn to a bipartisan bill by Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
It would delay any suspension of the immigration limits until at least 60 days after the U.S. surgeon general declares the pandemic emergency to be over. The administration would also have to propose a plan for handling the anticipated increase in migrants crossing the border. Democrats expressing support for keeping the immigration restrictions in place have cited a lack of planning by the administration as their chief concern although the Biden administration has insisted it is preparing for an increase in border crossings.
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Profit Pump: 100 years after first patient uses insulin, out-of-pocket costs continue to climb
Manufacturers, insurance industry trade barbs while those with diabetes face impossible choices
InvestigateTV - Every day, usually multiple times a day, millions of people in the U.S. put into their bodies a substance that per milliliter is 60 times more expensive than a bottle of 2008 vintage Dom Perignon champagne.
Whether it’s drawn into a syringe, dialed up by a pen or dosed by an automatic pump, the chain of proteins known as insulin is required by those diabetes patients using it to stay alive.
For many patients, however, the cost of survival is at an all-time high — despite the life-sustaining drug marking 100 years of human use in January.
Pharmaceutical companies blame the cost on insurance companies and “middlemen” for not passing along savings, while those insurance companies and contractors say it’s the drug makers that ultimately set the price.
While lawmakers at both the state and federal level have attempted caps on copays or taken the companies to court over business practices, patients say many in the diabetes community are forced to choose between paying their bills or rationing their medication — and the results can be deadly.
‘It’s terrifying’
Megan Cornelius has carved out a sizable following on social media, but not about her job in tech start ups or life in Southern California.
Instead, her channel focuses on the diagnosis she received when she was 10 years old.
“I actually self-diagnosed myself,” she said, recounting how a childhood friend had received the news of having Type-1 diabetes and she recognized the symptoms in herself.
“I just remember sitting there crying and saying, ‘Can I eat pizza? Can I eat cake?’” she said.
As an adult with Type-1, she said she still must carefully consider what she eats each day, but it takes much more mental energy thinking about the financial implications of her disease.
“It’s terrifying, because in America, our insurance is tied to our jobs. If you lose your job at any moment, you could just be out-of-luck getting insulin,” she said. “If I got fired right now, next month, I might not have enough money to afford what I need to live.”
The financial strain and emotional toll led her to create a platform aimed at supporting other patients with diabetes by not only sharing tips on how to save money or navigate the health care system, but by reminding them they are not alone.
Cornelius said based on everything she’s learned about living with diabetes she considers herself lucky — because of her stature she only needs about a vial and a half of insulin each month, compared to others who may need five or more. With insurance her out-of-pocket cost for insulin is just $35 per month — and her insurance plan covers up to 90% of her other diabetes medications and supplies, such as her pump and blood-glucose monitor.
But that’s after she meets her $1,500 deductible, which she said she does in the first week or two of each January.
Without insurance, she said the list price for her insulin and the supplies for her glucose monitor and pump averages around $6,200 every three months. Add in other medications to help regulate her blood sugar, visits to the doctor and other supplies, and Cornelius estimates treating her Type 1 diabetes would cost nearly $50,000 if she were uninsured.
Even with her insurance, she estimates she pays up to $10,000 out of pocket each year to manage her disease.
She said she has experienced the fear of not knowing if she can afford it all.
“First time I was laid off from a job, literally, that was the first thought: ‘How am I going to afford to pay for my diabetes?’” she said.
Between the delay in unemployment benefits and the limitation of the affordable plans on the healthcare marketplace, she was stuck having to cobble together the cash for her medication.
“I found a ton of odd jobs to make it happen,” she said.
She added that thanks to her physician prescribing the maximum dose she would ever need per-day, she had some reserves of insulin as well.
“I had a little bit of a supply leftover so I could make it through until I was able to figure out what to do for insurance and how I could afford it,” she said.
Others in the same situation, however, are not always as fortunate.
The American Diabetes Association estimated in the summer of 2020, even as COVID-19 unemployment and wage-losses finally began to drift back down, more than 650,000 diabetes patients in the U.S. were still regularly rationing their insulin by skipping doses or taking less than prescribed. The ADA also estimated 3 million people were skipping blood glucose tests.
For diabetes patients reliant on prescribed insulin, but especially those with Type 1 diabetes, rationing the drug can be deadly.
When asked if she thinks people are dying because they cannot afford their insulin, Cornelius said there isn’t a doubt in her mind.
“1,000%,” she said. “I can think of a couple people on the top of my head that have died because of it.”
Prices Vary
What a patient pays at the counter for insulin varies greatly depending on if they are insured and what kind of policy they have, which pharmacy they are doing business with and which type of insulin they’ve been prescribed.
Three companies, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi produce 96% of the world’s insulin for human use.
InvestigateTV looked at the hallmark insulin from each of the three major manufacturers: Humalog from Eli Lilly, Novolog from Novo Nordisk and Lantus from Sanofi.
Those brands were also the three most prescribed to respondents to an informal survey conducted by InvestigateTV in 2021.
Doses of insulin are measured in “units,” with patients needing a daily amount based on their body weight as well as additional, smaller doses to account for carbohydrates in food or mitigate blood sugar spikes.
For example, a patient weighing 160 pounds could have a daily requirement of 40 units, plus additional doses at mealtimes.
Humalog and Novolog are both short-acting insulins, meaning they begin to lower blood sugar about 15 minutes after a dose, while Lantus is a long-acting insulin and works to lower blood sugar throughout the day. While all three are available in easy-to-use pens, the cheapest option is generally for a vial, with the most common being a 10 milliliter vial containing 1000 units.
Depending on if they are Type 1 or Type 2, their body size, hormone levels or other factors, a patient’s needs can vary, though most require more than one vial per month. Patients who are particularly insulin-resistant, such as those with severe Type 2 diabetes, can use six to seven vials a month or more.
Online tools such as NeedyMeds — a nonprofit founded in the 1990s to assist patients who struggle to afford their prescriptions — show the range of retail prices patients might find at the pharmacy counter for a 10 milliliter vial of each of the three major brands.
Those amounts are similar to what an independent pharmacy InvestigateTV spoke with found when looking up the price of vials from their wholesale distributor around the same time.
List prices of these insulins have been on a steady march upward.
A congressional report looking at medication costs found list prices for a vial of Humalog, Novolog and Lantus have increased 1,219%, 627% and 715% respectively since the drugs were launched. Humalog, which has seen the largest over-time increase, entered the market first in 1996. Novolog and Lantus launched roughly a decade later, but introduced their products at a price similar to that of Humalog at the time.
In a 2021 informal, online survey posted to social media by Gray Media Group television stations, InvestigateTV asked respondents to share if they had health insurance and what type, as well as the total they pay out of pocket each month for insulin.
Those with employer-provided insurance, representing the majority of those answering the survey, reported paying an average of $173 a month. That category also had the widest range of responses, with some saying they had no out-of-pocket cost, while others said they pay up to $1,600 a month.
Those on Medicaid or Medicare reported much lower out-of-pocket amounts, averaging less than $100.
But data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows the programs — and ultimately taxpayers — have been paying increasingly high amounts per claim.
A few survey respondents reported they utilize Walmart’s ReliOn insulin brands, which cost $25 to $75 a vial, and others said they used biosimilars or “authorized generics” produced by the three major companies.
In a statement in response to a request for comment from InvestigateTV, Eli Lilly said its 2019 introduction of an authorized generic or “non-branded” version of Humalog, Insulin Lispro, has effectively lowered the price “down to what it was in 2008.”
“In the past years, we have introduced multiple solutions that have progressively lowered the out-of-pocket cost for Lilly insulin,” the company said in the statement.
[See Eli Lilly’s full statement below]
Novo Nordisk, which did not return InvestigateTV’s invitation to comment, introduced its own authorized-generic, Insulin Aspart, shortly after Eli Lilly did in 2019, according to industry news reports. The Food and Drug Administration also approved a biosimilar for Lantus in 2019.
While these less-expensive options exist along with older, more-basic types of insulin, pharmacists and providers repeatedly told InvestigateTV that doesn’t mean they are necessarily a better option — effective doses of older types of insulin can be difficult to calculate, and “non-branded” insulins and biosimilars may not be covered by insurance or even available at a patient’s pharmacy.
In an interview with InvestigateTV about changes to a federal drug discount program, Anne Webster, an Illinois nurse practitioner of endocrinology, said when one of her patients was forced to use an older type of insulin because of cost, she had concerns about his body experiencing more extreme high and low blood sugar events.
“It wasn’t my first choice for him,” she said.
In their responses to inquiries from InvestigateTV, Eli Lilly and Sanofi both claim they have programs and mechanisms in place to provide their products at a lower cost to patients, regardless of their insurance.
“We have a suite of innovative and patient-centric savings programs that have launched in recent years to help people reduce their prescription medicine costs,” a Sanofi spokesperson said.
But the dollar amounts patients see either on their insurance benefits documents or are asked to pay at the register at the pharmacy are still outrageous to Megan Cornelius, the California content creator.
When she was diagnosed as a child 25 years ago, she said a vial of insulin cost her family less than $50. Today, she said she sees that vial ringing up at $350.
“People can’t afford that, especially if they’re uninsured or under insured,” she said.
Instead, some of them are traveling to Canada or Mexico, where the same vials of insulin are available for purchase at a fraction of the price.
Even as someone who can usually afford her medication, Cornelius said she’s done it herself.
“I’m 30 minutes from the border to Mexico. I went to a wedding and stopped by a pharmacy afterwards,” she said. “I paid $60 for a pen and a bottle of insulin. It took me five minutes, and I didn’t need a prescription. So tell me why: A 30-minute drive, I can buy two bottles of insulin for $60, and here that will cost me $700. It’s the exact same thing.”
‘Cost’ depends on who you ask
While the list price of medications like insulin can be determined with a little research, what an individual patient may see at the cash register is determined by contracts and negotiations that are shielded from public view.
The path prescription medications take through the healthcare system from those manufacturers to the end patient has grown more complicated as “middlemen” such as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and wholesale distributors have entered the supply chain.
Manufacturers set a list price, known as a “Wholesale Acquisition Cost,” and sell insulin and other drugs to wholesale distributors, or in some cases pharmacies directly, either for the list price or at a slight discount. The distributors sell to pharmacies, and while there isn’t typically a large additional mark-up, distributors may use the original list price rather than the discounted price they received from the manufacturer.
In most cases, a patient purchases insulin at the pharmacy and pays an amount determined by their insurance — either a set copay or percentage of the list price determined by coinsurance, or the retail price charged by the pharmacy if the patient hasn’t met their deductible.
The pharmacy then sends a bill to the patient’s insurance and typically receives an additional dispensing fee.
If the patient’s insurance company contracts with a PBM, the insurer may get a rebate for the insulin, based on rebates the PBM received from the manufacturer and fees paid by the pharmacy.
The details of these rebates, fees and other aspects of relationships between PBMs, insurance companies, pharmacies and manufacturers are often opaque, but experts and lawmakers alike attribute much of the increase in what patients pay for insulin to these relationships.
So do the entities themselves — but each side points to the other as the problem.
Lisa Joldersma, senior vice president for policy and research for Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), said the industry blames high costs to patients on insurance companies not passing along the rebates they receive.
“Health insurers purchase insulin in quantity, they secure significant discounts,” said Joldersma, who focuses on public policy, state and insurance issues. “Unfortunately, too often they are choosing not to make those discounts available to patients at the pharmacy counter, and we think that’s just wrong.”
While she acknowledged list prices for insulin set by drug manufacturers continue to rise, she said the net price — what manufacturers ultimately receive at the end of the process — has plateaued and even decreased since the late 2000s.
“Our companies are delivering better insulin, more innovative, easier to use insulin than was available 15 years ago, actually at a lower cost than 15 years ago,” she said, but clarified: “When I say lower cost, I have to refer to the major purchaser of insulin in this country, which is health insurers.”
A study by the University of Southern California’s Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics indeed found that in 2018, while the list price of 100 units of insulin topped $25, the net price manufacturers received was less than $10. That gap used to be smaller.
However, a drug pricing investigation by the Committee on Oversight and Reform released in December 2021 claims the pharmaceutical industry’s stance is relying too heavily on the decrease in net price.
“A drug’s net price does not account for uninsured patients, who cannot access the benefits of rebates negotiated by payers and may pay the full list price for drugs. In addition, because certain out-of-pocket costs borne by patients are based on a drug’s list price, when drug companies raise the list price, patients may face higher out-of-pocket costs even as supply chain rebates lower the aggregate net prices of some drugs,” the investigation report reads.
In other words: When list prices go up, patients pay more — especially if they are uninsured.
Joldersma countered by noting more people in the U.S. have health insurance than ever before thanks to the Affordable Care Act, and she reiterated PhRMA’s view that the responsibility for high out-of-pocket costs lies with insurers and their intermediaries.
“The manufacturers do set the price; that’s absolutely true,” she said. “But manufacturers also deeply discount their products, and they do that because they want the products to be more affordable for patients, and again, unfortunately, the significant discounts that manufacturers offer and provide on insulin products are too often being held by insurers, and by their intermediaries, and they’re not being passed along to patients at the pharmacy counter, and we think that’s wrong and needs to change.”
The motivation behind the discounted prices, however, is seen differently by those in Congress.
Higher prices, higher priority
A Senate Finance Committee report on insulin commissioned in 2019 by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) found evidence that those discounts or rebates were often motivated by companies either seeking preferred placement on formulary lists — a list of prescription drugs covered by an insurer, often determined by a PBM — or to avoid retaliation by insurers and PBMs in the form of exclusion from formulary lists.
Based on documents provided by manufacturers to the Senate committee, the report found one example where the board of Novo Nordisk decided not to decrease prices because of the financial downsides and expected pressure from insurers and their “middlemen.”
The report states: “The company believed that its decision to decrease list price could upset payers, and that many in the drug supply chain (e.g., wholesaler distributors, PBMs, and health insurers) would be negatively impacted financially and could retaliate against Novo Nordisk.”
As with the production of insulin, the PBM market has three major players of its own that are specifically noted by the Grassley-Wyden report: CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx.
The report found these companies have “significant marketing power when negotiating rebates.”
The result of that marketing power, Joldersma said, are lower prices for insurers but “mark-ups” for patients because that savings isn’t being passed along.
“You have an entity a powerful entity that is effectively buying a product on sale, 70% off, 80% off, and then turning around and asking an individual, who is paying premiums for their health insurance, asking that individual to pay 100% of the undiscounted price of the medicine,” she said.
The insurance and PBM industries don’t see it that way.
Savings: All for one, or one for all?
InvestigateTV reached out to AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans), a trade and lobbying association for health insurers, to ask about the claims raised by Joldersma and lawmakers.
In response, a spokesperson sent a link to a statement on recent legislation in the House of Representatives regarding caps on the price of insulin, as well as an information sheet on the industry’s position on “point of sale rebates,” or the passing-on of savings referenced by PhRMA.
“Health insurance providers are Americans’ bargaining power, negotiating for lower drug prices for everyone. That includes negotiating rebates for drugs and maximizing the impact for all plan enrollees by passing on those savings directly to patients and consumers through lower out-of-pocket costs and premiums,” the information sheet reads. “Big Pharma argues that those savings should not be passed on to everyone through lower premiums and lower cost sharing. Instead, they believe rebates should only go to patients at the pharmacy counter. While this may sound attractive — or even fair — on its face, what drug manufacturers don’t mention is that rebates are only available for some drugs.”
In the statement in opposition to a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would cap insulin copays at $35 for those with commercial insurance, AHIP placed the responsibility for the price of insulin squarely on the shoulders of manufacturers.
“Insulin prices are too high because Big Pharma alone sets and controls the price.”
But Beth Caveness, the pharmacist who shared the prices from her distributors for insulin, told InvestigateTV she and others in her field consider the proliferation of insurance companies utilizing PBMs to be the primary driver of the ever-increasing price of not only insulins, but all drugs.
“No matter what you fill, no matter what you do, they’re going to come up with a new way to take money from you,” she said, referring to not just patients, but business owners like herself.
Operating an independent pharmacy, she said she often takes a loss on insulin prescriptions in particular, because even after adding a standard retail mark-up, PBM fees erase any profit.
“We sell it to a patient and think we’re going to make $20, and then three months later, four months later, you find out that that pharmacy benefit manager takes about $40,” she said.
Dr. Steve Miller, the recently-retired but longtime chief medical officer for Express Scripts, argued PBMs like the one he helped lead are trying to reduce prices — that by negotiating with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of health plans, more patients get access to lower prices than they otherwise would.
“What we do is we negotiate against those manufacturers to try to lower that price for people that are lucky enough to have good insurance,” he said.
At Express Scripts, some plans are also eligible for what the company calls a “diabetes care value program” that Miller said further leveraged the company’s relationship with insulin manufacturers.
“We said, why don’t we take the money that you’re putting into patient assistance programs, or copay cards or giveaway stuff? And let’s buy-down the copay to $25 for everyone regardless of how much insulin they use, regardless of what branded insulin they use,” he said.
The result is a more predictable amount for those with specific insurance plans, but Miller admitted it leaves out those who don’t have any insurance or whose plan doesn’t meet the program requirements.
While the other individual PBMs, CVS Caremark and OptumRx did not respond to a request for comment, a spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) , a trade and lobbying organization for PBMs, contacted InvestigateTV after receiving word from member companies about those requests.
The spokesperson sent links to online materials, as well as a written statement:
“We believe the key to reducing drug costs is increasing competition, including for insulin products. Unfortunately, tactics used by drug manufacturers to avoid competition, including ongoing patent extensions on insulin products, are a significant barrier to getting costs down even further for people with diabetes.
PBMs have introduced programs to cap, or outright eliminate, out-of-pocket costs for insulin and have stepped up efforts to help patients living with diabetes by providing clinical support and education, which help patients maintain their insulin regimens and lead healthier lives.”
Miller also pointed back to manufacturers as holding the controls for the market.
“Only one stakeholder sets the price of drugs, that’s the pharmaceutical manufacturers. They could choose to quit raising those prices, and so and so the idea that the prices keep going up, and it’s being forced upon them is not true. If they want to sell the drug for a lower price, we would be thrilled to do that.”
Lawmakers don’t entirely disagree.
The Oversight Committee investigation notes similar points to both AHIP and PCMA, stating “the three insulin companies have engaged in strategies to maintain monopoly pricing and defend against competition.”
Both that report and the Grassley-Wyden report also reference the practice of “shadow pricing” with regard to insulin.
The lawmakers list examples of shadow pricing — where companies raise the price of a similar good seemingly in lockstep, virtually eliminating any price reduction based on market competition and often without the increases being related to inflation or the cost of producing the goods — by all three major insulin manufacturers.
In both reports, lawmakers also claim pharmaceutical companies are not spending enough money on research and development to justify higher prices. The industry refutes this by pointing to the new types and methods of administering insulin that have emerged over the last 15 years — including long-acting insulins, insulin pens and inhaled insulins — as evidence the drug has advanced like any other, — and again Joldersma, from PhRMA, blamed insurers and PBMs.
“Our manufacturers who are delivering insulin, better insulin than we’ve ever had before are providing substantial discounts that insulin to the insurance companies who are paying the bill,” Joldersma said, “and we think it is awful, that insurance companies are choosing to use those dollars to use those savings for things other than reducing the cost of being insulin for a patient’s diabetes is too important.”
‘We’ve got to hold them accountable’
While manufacturers, insurers and PBMs embody the 1968 episode of the animated Spider-Man series “To Catch a Spider/Double Identity” that became a viral sensation in 2011, patients with diabetes who are dependent on insulin are facing difficult choices.
“What happens to these individuals, they end up using expired insulin, they don’t take the correct amount of insulin, or they don’t take it at all, and then the physical consequences are, again are devastating in that regard,” said Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch.
Fitch filed a lawsuit in June 2021 against the three major insulin manufacturers as well as the three largest PBMs — a lawsuit that coming from a state attorney general was the first of its kind.
“There’s a scheme going on here, there’s a pricing scheme going on,” she said, “and we’ve got to make it affordable. And in order to do that, we’ve got to hold them accountable.”
Mississippi, squarely in the “Diabetes Belt” has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the nation. In the Mississippi Delta, where socioeconomic factors also limit access to healthcare, around 70% of counties have a higher rate than the national average.
Fitch’s interest in the issue holds personal value as well.
“I’ve seen it, I have lived with my child going through these trials and tribulations and challenges,” she said.
Fitch’s daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 13.
“It just breaks your heart as a mother, ‘What could I have done differently? How did I not see this coming?’” she said of the questions that flooded her mind at the time. “But, you know, diabetes just sneaks up and says, I’m going to go in, and I’m going to affect this child’s life. And it truly did.”
She said the financial toll was significant as well, and remains on her mind even as her daughter has become an adult.
“It’s been a tremendous financial drain. From the moment she was diagnosed to the age she is now,” she said. “It’s devastating from the financial side.”
InvestigateTV obtained documents from the offices of 11 state attorneys general where patients filed consumer complaints involving insulin against both pharmaceutical companies and insurers.
A patient in Maryland alleged price gouging in early 2020 after their 90-day supply of insulin increased from $340 in February to $1,100 in March as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the nation.
“This is the same year, same insurance plan, same prescription, and same pharmacy. When I spoke with my CVS Caremark representative, he said the manufacturers had increased the price significantly within the last month,” the patient wrote.
Fitch’s lawsuit, still moving through federal court, accuses the insulin manufacturers and PBMs of violating the Mississippi Consumer Act, unjust enrichment and civil conspiracy.
“The reason behind the increase [in insulin prices] is a fraudulent conspiracy between billion-dollar companies known as PBMs and the Manufacturer Defendants,” the complaint reads.
The complaint references an April 2019 congressional hearing where the state claims the defendants themselves explain how their interactions have driven up prices.
Fitch’s lawsuit faces an uphill battle, however.
Others against manufacturers, such as the one brought by the Minnesota Attorney General, have been either thrown out or gutted in federal courts, because in many cases federal laws don’t allow companies to be sued by an undefined plaintiff — and many cases are written as being on behalf of the entire population, not a specific person.
Those named in the lawsuit have filed motions to dismiss, claiming lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim.
Miller, with Express Scripts, couldn’t address specific litigation, but said he feels PBMs are being unfairly maligned.
“We have a system that’s created these high prices. And we have both regulatory legislative, but also market forces that are driving it up, we believe we’re the force for good trying to drive that down,” he said, adding, “all those things conspire to work against the patient, and we feel like we’re one of those forces to actually trying to do the opposite, but are often being blamed for the cause of high prices.”
Capping conundrum
Other efforts to curb the sticker shock patients face at the pharmacy counter, such as copay caps, have been slow going.
Several states have implemented or are in the process of debating caps on out-of-pocket spending on insulin for those with certain insurance coverage.
At the federal level, the House of Representatives passed its $35 copay cap on insulin prescription copays for the commercially insured — originally part of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan — while on the other side of the hill Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) have introduced and proposed, respectively, insulin price cap legislation.
Collins said in an interview with InvestigateTV that while caps are the primary topic of conversation on Capitol Hill, she does think more will need to happen to address insulin prices.
“I would agree that this is a far more complicated issue than just putting a monthly out-of-pocket cap on the amount that it’s paid for insulin, although that’s certainly it’s beneficial to many people,” she said.
“What I have found due to an investigation that was done when I was chair of the aging committee, is that the price of insulin is rife with conflicts of interest.”
The senator said those findings were similar to those from the Grassley-Wyden and Oversight reports: that manufacturers are keeping list prices high to be chosen by PBMs for an insurer’s formulary thanks to larger rebates, and PBMs not discouraging that behavior because their fees are based on a percentage of the list price.
Collins has not yet introduced her own bill, but according to Kaiser Health News has been selected along with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) to work on the Senate’s consideration of the House bill. Collins and Shaheen have previously worked together on insulin affordability legislation, but those efforts never saw a bill become law.
Manufacturers have in general been supportive of these attempts at capping copays for insulin.
A spokesperson for Sanofi, which produces the long-acting insulin Lantus, told InvestigateTV in an email: “Sanofi supports efforts to cap monthly co-pays for covered insulin. We also support legislation that results in patients paying less when they pick up their insulin such as requiring rebates to be shared at the pharmacy counter, requiring plans to cover insulin without applying a deductible, and prohibiting plans from imposing a higher co-pay than its net cost after manufacturer rebates.”
[See Sanofi’s full statement below]
Back in Southern California, Meagan Cornelius is skeptical of the effort in Washington, telling her TikTok followers the House bill is just “smoke.”
“They’re making people think they’re doing something, but they’re not,” she said in the short video.
Cornelius, who places the responsibility for the price of insulin squarely on pharmaceutical companies, said lawmakers should be more focused on regulations to reel in that industry, not legislate caps that don’t help all patients.
“Holding pharmaceutical companies accountable, putting caps on how they can raise prices, on the amount of money, they can actually make off a medication,” she said, listing what she thinks needs to change.
“The money their CEOs make is an unfathomable amount,” she said. “Cut that in half, what are you doing with all this money? Why do you need it so badly that you’re allowing people to die, just so you can have extra money in the bank? I don’t get it. I don’t get how someone can sleep at night with that.”
Justine Arens and Payton Romans provided research assistance for this report.
InvestigateTV reached out to the three major insulin manufacturers as well as the three pharmacy benefit managers referenced in congressional reports and lawsuits to address the claims made by various parties. Of those that responded, these were their full statements:
Sanofi:
List Price vs. Net Price
“Despite rhetoric about skyrocketing insulin prices, the net price (meaning the amount that Sanofi actually receives from a sale of its medicine after payment of any rebates or discounts on such sale) of insulin has been falling for seven consecutive years, making our insulins significantly less expensive for insurance companies.
PBMs have demanded rebates for pharmaceutical products for nearly two decades, and they are an engrained feature of our healthcare system. Since 2012, the net price of our insulins declined by 54%. Over the same period, the net price for commercial and Medicare Part D plans of our most prescribed insulin, Lantus, has fallen 62%, while average out-of-pocket costs for patients with commercial insurance and Medicare has risen approximately 60%. For all the focus by health plans and others on the growth of list prices, today, the average net price of Lantus is below 2006 levels.”
Sanofi Diabetes Access Programs
“We disagree with your claim that access to our patient programs are limited as we have a suite of innovative and patient-centric savings programs that have launched in recent years to help people reduce their prescription medicine costs.
• 100% of commercially insured people are eligible for co-pay assistance programs, regardless of income or insurance plan design, which limits out-of-pocket expenses for a majority of people between $0 and $10. These programs are available for those prescribed Adlyxin, Apidra, Lantus, Soliqua 100/33, and Toujeo.
• 100% of uninsured people are eligible for the Insulins Valyou Savings Program — regardless of income level — enabling them to buy one or multiple Sanofi insulins (Lantus, Toujeo, Admelog, and Apidra) for a fixed price of $99 per month, for up to ten boxes of SoloStar pens and/or 10 mL vials or 5 boxes of Toujeo Max SoloStar pens. Soliqua 100/33′s cash offer also allows uninsured people to pay as little as $99 per box of pens, for up to two boxes of pens for a 30-day supply.
• We also provide free medications to qualified low- and middle-income patients through the patient assistance component of the Sanofi Patient Connection program. Some people facing an unexpected financial hardship may be eligible for a one-time, immediate month’s supply of their Sanofi medicine as they wait for their application to process.
• Sanofi also volunteered to join the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Senior Savings Model which allows patients enrolled in participating Part D plans to pay a $35 or less co-pay for each 30-day prescription of a Sanofi insulin throughout the year.
The only people ineligible for our programs are those insured by federal programs, including Medicare and Medicare Part D, due to federal rules. Sanofi supports changes to these rules that would allow all patients to benefit from assistance programs.”
Pricing Allegations and Lawsuits
“We strongly believe the allegations have no merit, and we will defend ourselves against these claims.”
State and Federal Patient Out-Of-Pocket Caps on Insulin
“Sanofi supports efforts to cap monthly co-pays for covered insulin. We also support legislation that results in patients paying less when they pick up their insulin such as requiring rebates to be shared at the pharmacy counter, requiring plans to cover insulin without applying a deductible, and prohibiting plans from imposing a higher co-pay than its net cost after manufacturer rebates.”
Executive Compensation
“Sanofi executives’ compensation is not a factor in the Company’s decisions regarding the pricing of its medicines.
Consistent with our pricing principles, Sanofi sets the prices of its medicines based on their value, which includes considerations of the benefit to patients, compared to a standard of care; the reduced need — and therefore costs — of other health care interventions; and any increase in quality of life and productivity. We also consider factors such as the affordability for patients and any unique factors specific to the medicine, like the need to support ongoing clinical trials, implement important regulatory commitments, or develop sophisticated patient support tools that improve care management and help decrease the total cost of care.
Any price increases take into account these factors and also are limited to the projected annual health care spending growth rate — NHE — as estimated by CMS.
Moreover, Sanofi determines its executive personnel’s variable compensation based on a complex and multi-faceted set quantitative and qualitative criteria that account for both individual and company-wide performance and may include criteria related to research and development, new product launches, the financial performance of relevant business lines, organization and staff relations, and corporate social responsibility.”
Eli Lilly
Lilly is deeply committed to making insulin affordable for all people living with diabetes, regardless of income or insurance status.
In the past years, we have introduced multiple solutions that have progressively lowered the out-of-pocket cost for Lilly insulin. Today, anyone is eligible to purchase their Lilly insulin prescription for $35 or less per month, regardless of the number of pens or vials they use, and whether they are uninsured or use commercial insurance, Medicaid, or are enrolled in a participating Medicare Part D plan.
We have not raised list prices on any of our insulins for the past five years. To the contrary, we lowered the list price on our most commonly used insulin (Humalog) by 70%, bringing the list price down to what it was in 2008, by introducing our own non-branded equivalent and making it available to any health plan that wants to put it on their formulary.
Our solutions are making a real impact for people with diabetes. Despite rising deductibles, the average monthly out-of-pocket cost for Lilly insulin has dropped by 44 percent, to $21.80, over the last five years. This translates to $7-10 per vial and $2-3 per pen.
Lilly has been acting voluntarily to make its insulins more affordable for patients within our current healthcare system, but we also advocate for comprehensive solutions and public policies, such as passing through rebates directly to people who use insulin and limiting out-of-pocket costs, to move the U.S. healthcare system from a series of patchwork solutions to systemic change that helps people access and afford their insulin, and other lifesaving drugs.
None of our insulins’ active ingredients are patent protected, and we are not using patents to keep new entrants out of the insulin market. A follow-on version of Humalog has been on the market for four years. Lilly supports the use of generics and biosimilars to enter the market when patents rightfully expire. We also support removing regulatory barriers to allow such entry.
Scientists have made extraordinary strides in insulin innovation over the last 100 years, improving the lives of millions of people with diabetes. Lilly has pioneered many of the great advancements in insulin treatments, and our diabetes pipeline includes a once-weekly basal insulin medication that could eliminate daily insulin injections for certain individuals living with diabetes, and a “smart insulin” platform (glucose-responsive insulins that can sense sugar levels in the blood and automatically activate as needed throughout the day).
Until gaps in the healthcare system are filled, Lilly will continue to provide affordability solutions to people who need them. Anyone paying more than $35 per month for Lilly insulin can call the Lilly Diabetes Solution Center at (833) 808-1234 or go to insulinaffordability.com to learn more about our insulin affordability solutions and get help.
Additional facts on our Insulin Affordability Programs (also found on insulinaffordability.com):
Lilly has many programs that provide affordable insulin. In the past years, Lilly has introduced multiple solutions that allow people to purchase a monthly prescription of Lilly insulin for $35 or less, including:
• In 2020, we announced the Lilly Insulin Value Program, a co-pay card allowing people with commercial insurance or uninsured to buy their monthly prescription of Lilly insulin for $35. There is no application or enrollment process; interested individuals need only confirm they are over 18, a U.S. resident, and not covered by a government insurance program, and in a matter of seconds they will receive a copay card that they can download to their mobile device or print and present when they pick up their insulin prescription.
• Lilly and other manufacturers are contributing $250 million over five years to make our insulins available in the Senior Savings Model, allowing seniors in a participating Part D insurance plan to purchase their monthly prescription of Lilly insulin for $35.
• Lilly pays a 100 percent rebate to state governments to make our insulins available to millions of people in the Medicaid and VA programs.
• In 2019, we introduced a non-branded insulin, Insulin Lispro, at half the list price of branded Humalog. Insulin Lispro, which is the same molecule as Humalog, is now 70 percent off the list price of its branded counterpart.
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CHEYENNE – Cheyenne Fire Rescue responded to a residential structure fire in the 2500 block of Chestnut Drive on Sunday night.
Crews were dispatched at 10:54 p.m. and arrived on scene at 10:58 p.m., according to a news release The structure fire was under control by 11:27 p.m., and crews cleared the scene at 12:07 a.m. Monday.
CFR arrived to find moderate smoke coming from the front door of the property. Firefighters successfully made their way to the basement for extinguishment. Prior to their arrival, dispatch advised units that all occupants had vacated the residence except for multiple cats. Four cats were removed from the residence, with resuscitation efforts unsuccessful.
No serious injuries were reported by CFR, and the occupants were displaced and given temporary housing from Red Cross. One occupant was transported to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center by American Medical Response for smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The hydrant at the corner of Chestnut Drive and Deming Boulevard was used to extinguish the structure fire. CFR notes that residents in the area may see some discoloration in their water due to sediment in the line. Steps were taken to flush the hydrant after the fire was extinguished to help alleviate the discoloration.
The Cheyenne Police Department, Black Hills Energy, animal control and AMR assisted CFR on scene.
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BANGOR, Wash. – A Cheyenne native is stationed at Naval Base Kitsap, home port to West Coast ballistic-missile and guided-missile submarines.
Chief Petty Officer Jory Knapp joined the Navy for the chance at a better life. Today, Knapp serves as a missile technician.
“I joined the Navy for the great career and educational opportunities, and I wanted the stability the Navy offered,” said Knapp.
Knapp received a GED certificate in 2006. Today, Knapp uses skills and values similar to those found in Cheyenne to succeed in the Navy.
“Growing up in Cheyenne gave me a strong sense of independence and taught me how to take care of myself at an early age,” said Knapp. “That has helped me deal with the isolation you may feel while serving aboard a submarine in the Navy. My mother played a big role in preparing me for any situation that might arise.”
These lessons have helped Knapp while serving at Trident Training Facility.
Known as America’s “Apex Predators!,” the Navy’s submarine force operates a large fleet of technically-advanced vessels. These submarines are capable of conducting rapid defensive and offensive operations around the world, in furtherance of U.S. national security.
There are three basic types of submarines: fast-attack submarines (SSN), ballistic-missile submarines (SSBN) and guided-missile submarines (SSGN).
Fast-attack submarines are designed to hunt down and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships; strike targets ashore with cruise missiles; carry and deliver Navy SEALs; conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions; and engage in mine warfare. The Virginia-class SSN is the most advanced submarine in the world today. It combines stealth and payload capability to meet Combatant Commanders’ demands in this era of strategic competition.
The Navy's ballistic-missile submarines, often referred to as "boomers," serve as a strategic deterrent by providing an undetectable platform for submarine-launched ballistic missiles. SSBNs are designed specifically for stealth, extended patrols and the precise delivery of missiles. The Columbia-class SSBN will be the largest, most capable and most advanced submarine produced by the U.S. - replacing the current Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines to ensure continuous sea-based strategic deterrence into the 2080s.
Guided-missile submarines provide the Navy with unprecedented strike and special operation mission capabilities from a stealthy, clandestine platform. Each SSGN is capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, plus a complement of heavyweight torpedoes to be fired through four torpedo tubes.
Strategic deterrence is the nation’s ultimate insurance program, according to Navy officials. As a member of the submarine force, Knapp is part of a rich 122-year history of the U.S. Navy’s most versatile weapons platform, capable of taking the fight to the enemy in the defense of America and its allies.
Serving in the Navy means Knapp is part of a team that is taking on new importance in America’s focus on rebuilding military readiness, strengthening alliances and reforming business practices in support of the National Defense Strategy.
With more than 90% of all trade traveling by sea, and 95% of the world’s international phone and internet traffic carried through underwater fiber optic, Navy officials continue to emphasize that the prosperity and security of the United States is directly linked to a strong and ready Navy.
A major component of that maritime security is home ported at Naval Submarine Base Bangor.
Strategic deterrence is the nation’s ultimate insurance program, and for decades Naval Submarine Base Bangor has been home to Ohio Class ballistic-missile submarines. Beginning in 2028, the new Columbia Class ballistic-missile submarines will arrive and provide continuous sea-based strategic deterrence into the 2080s.
Knapp and the sailors they serve with have many opportunities to achieve accomplishments during their military service.
“Making the rank of chief petty officer and earning my submarine warfare qualification is what I’m most proud of,” Knapp said. “It was also extremely rewarding when I was a leading petty officer mentoring sailors.”
As Knapp and other sailors continue to train and perform the missions they are tasked with, they take pride in serving their country in the United States Navy.
“Serving in the Navy gives me a good sense of family that gets deeper the more connections I make,” Knapp added.
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SWEETWATER COUNTY -- Dave Divis has announced his intention to run for his second term as Sweetwater County Assessor.
He is running for re-election on the Republican ticket.
Divis graduated from the University of Wyoming with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He is permanently certified tax appraiser recognized by the Wyoming Department of Revenue and has received over 400 hours of continuing education in the assessment field. Divis is currently serving as the President of the Wyoming County Assessors Association.
He has over 30 years of experience in local government in Sweetwater County.
Divis started in 1991 in the Treasurer’s Office issuing license plates and is now finishing his first term as the Sweetwater County Assessor. He was hired as the Chief Deputy Assessor in 2012, appointed to fill out Pat Drinkle’s term in February of 2018, and then elected by the voters in November of 2018.
“It has been quite a journey that has given me experience in taxation and assessment that not many people have. I believe all of this experience allows me to sit down with a taxpayer and explain the entire cycle…from property valuation and assessment, to tax billing and distribution. I really enjoy helping taxpayers understand our valuation/taxation process,” Divis stated.
“The valuation numbers tabulated by the Assessor are scrutinized by the Wyoming Department of Revenue and the Wyoming State Board of Equalization on a yearly basis. The Assessor must comply with all statutory requirements for the mean, median, coefficient of dispersion, and price related differential. The Assessor must also be a permanently certified tax appraiser. Along with verifying the statistical requirements, the Wyoming Department of Revenue will audit assessment practices within the county each year to make sure each Assessor is compliant with IAAO (International Association of Assessing Officers) standards and Department of Revenue rules. Our values have always been certified and our audits have always been clean.”
Divis stated that in his tenure as the Sweetwater County Assessor, they have done more with less. In 2016, they had 10 full-time employees and now have eight full-time and one part-time seasonal position.
“We are being very careful with taxpayer dollars. We have been able to leverage taxpayer dollars by using technology. Our E-notice program has over 1,000 taxpayers singed up which saves on paper and postage and we are utilizing new aerial photography provided by the state.
“I truly believe I am the most qualified candidate for the position of Sweetwater County Assessor. I have been fiscally conservative in my tenure in the Assessor’s Office and have always been willing to sit down and explain the assessment process to the taxpayers of Sweetwater County. If elected, I will continue to operate the County Assessor’s Office in a respectful, efficient and transparent manner.”
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ROCK SPRINGS – Rock Springs High School senior Brock Bider is joining the Colorado Mesa University Mavericks in the fall.
On Thursday, April 21, Bider signed his national letter of intent to officially commit to the Mavericks football program.
The quarterback who led the Tigers to the state championship game in 2021 said that he loved the “vibe” of the university the moment he stepped onto the campus.
“Oh, I am so excited. The coaches, the vibe and everything down there was great. I just made my decision the second I got down there. I loved it,” Bider told the Rocket Miner.
Bider is a well-decorated student athlete for Rock Springs.
He lettered in football and basketball for three years and track and field for two. He was mentioned on the all-conference team as a junior and was given honorable mention recognition for all-state as well.
During his senior year, Bider led the Tigers to a 10-2 record and set 10 school records. He had the most completions in a season (127), most completions in a game (27), most completions in a career (244), most yards gained in a season (1,769), most yards gained in a career (3,440), most touchdowns thrown in a game (4), most touchdowns thrown in a season (21), most touchdowns thrown in a career (33), best passing percentage for a season (68%) and total offense in a season (2,115).
For his efforts, he was named to the all-conference team, all-state team, second team Super 25, was named the conference offensive player of the year and the quarterback for the Shrine Bowl, which will be coached by Rock Springs head coach Mark Lenhardt, who couldn’t be happier for his starting quarterback.
“Brock’s one of the kids I’m most proud of in my career because he’s one of the kids that has improved as much as any,” Lenhardt said. “I’ve told this story before from when he was a sophomore. It was probably after his second JV game and I didn’t know if he would see the varsity field, but you could just see him get better week by week. He grew up a little bit when he started to get a better understanding of the offense and what we were trying to do.
“His best attributes were his accuracy and touch. He knew the system inside and out by the time he was done. He put a lot of time in, not only to improve himself but to improve the game. I think it’s awesome that he’s moving on.”
He is a member of the National Honor Society, Tigers for Literacy, the Fire, Law and Leadership Academy and Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
I had the best teammates you could ask for, many of us played from our youth league days until senior year. One key to our success was sticking together and working our tails off. Through Covid year into our senior year we had an absolute mission and passion to be in the state championship game,” Bider stated in a press release.
Lenhardt believes Bider’s game will translate well at the next level and that he is willing to put in the effort to be better.
“With the complexity of our offense, I think he’ll be prepared on a mental standpoint. Physically, he’ll have to grow and improve, but he’s more than willing to put in the work to do that,” he said.
Lenhardt also said that Bider was influential in the rebuild of the football program at the high school.
“I think Brock was the perfect fit for us when we were starting our program because he was calm and resilient, so he was able to kind of work through any of the kinks all of us had and stay at a steady level that all of us needed. I think his demeanor and his maturity is going to be really useful when he goes off to college,” he said.
Bider is also appreciative of Lenhardt and the coaching staff at Rock Springs.
“I would like to thank Coach Mark Lenhardt for believing in me and giving me an opportunity to be the RSQB #1. Coach Lenhardt spent countless hours with me and putting me in a place where I could be successful,” Bider stated.
“Coach is demanding and has high expectations but I believe that’s what allowed me to excel in my position. Coach Lenhardt is like no other coach I’ve had. He takes the time to build relationships with the players on and off the field, and brings an atmosphere of success and high expectations. (I’d say the Pied Piper of Football and Coaching) Every athlete that works with coach knows he’s got your back and we’d do anything for that guy.
“I cannot say thank you enough to coach and his wife Kim, thank you for picking RSHS football.”
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ROCK SPRINGS -- Western Wyoming Community College (Western) and the Exercise Science Program will host the sixth annual 5K run (or walk), Run With Sandy on Saturday, April 30, with registration starting at 8:30 a.m. at the Western Commons. Immediately following the run, breakfast will be served in Western Commons by the local Kiwanis Internation chapter.
Dr. Sandy Mitchell taught biology at Western for 28 years but passed away on May 8, 2017, from breast cancer. She was highly revered and loved by Western students and faculty alike. There are many accounts of Mitchell having a long-lasting impact on people’s lives.
Mitchell was an avid runner and fly fisher. Run with Sandy is a non-profit event that will raise money to be donated to the Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center. All donations of any amount are greatly welcomed and appreciated.
“The run is a great way to get out and get active. Not only is this a great way to honor yourself or someone you know who has battled cancer but being active is a great way to reduce your risk of cancer and other diseases!” Kristine Clark said.
The event is a 5K run/walk organized to honor Mitchell, but participants are encouraged to run in honor of their loved ones who are battling or have battled cancer. For those who cannot join in-person, they can complete the run “virtually” by sharing some photos of themselves, their family and/or friends doing their own run and posting them to social media using #RunWithSandy.
Participants can complete a 5k walk (3 laps) around Western’s outdoor track on campus or a 5k run (Gateway/Skyline loop). For those who will be walking, please sign up for the 9 a.m. time slot. For those planning to run, please sign up for the 9:30 a.m. time slot. Signing up for this option can be done by visiting //westernwyoming.edu/runwithsandy. Everyone will complete the full registration the day of the event.
Registration is by donation and open to the public. T-shirts will be available on a first-come basis for those who make a $20 donation or more while supplies last. The community is encouraged to participate.
This run is made possible with sponsorship from Western Wyoming Community College Exercise Science Program, Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County, Wyoming Cancer Resource Services, Wyoming Department of Health and Western Cultural Affairs.
For those who would like to donate but cannot make it to the run, please contact Kristine Clark at kclark@westernwyoming.edu to submit your donation. For more information regarding this event, please contact Kristine Clark at kclark@westernwyoming.edu or (307) 382-1876.
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ROCK SPRINGS -- The Rock Springs Main Street/Urban Renewal Agency is pleased to announce a call for new art for the Art Underground Gallery, which is designed to bring life, color and art to the pedestrian underpass in Downtown Rock Springs. The gallery is also meant encourage the community to get involved in adding color and creativity to our public spaces. Residents of all ages are invited to create an individual mural that will be displayed in the underpass for the coming 24 months.
The initial display was created in the fall of 2015. “We’re currently on our third round of artwork that will be retired and replaced with new pieces,” Rock Springs Main Street/URA board chairwoman Maria Mortensen said.
A limited number of primed canvases (2’ by 4’ plywood) are available for the community to pick up, free of charge. They can be picked up from the Rock Springs Main Street/URA office at 603 S Main Street in Downtown Rock Springs. Completed canvases should be returned to the Rock Springs Main Street/URA office by May 20, 2022. Because there are a limited number of canvases, they are available on a first come, first served basis. Once all canvases have been given out, we can no longer accept entries.
Guidelines for murals:
· All artwork must be the artist’s individual work in design and execution.
· Work must be able to withstand outdoor display; two coats of marine grade primer are highly recommended.
· Work must be suitable for all ages.
· Committee has the right to determine the suitability of work.
· All mediums and themes are welcome.
· Canvases will be displayed in the pedestrian underpass which can be somewhat dark so artists are encouraged to created pieces that are bright and colorful.
· We regret that bad weather and vandalism are risks of public displays such as this, and we cannot be held responsible for missing or ruined artwork.
· Specific placement locations cannot be guaranteed; pieces will be screwed into walls for display.
The installation will be unveiled after Memorial Day. Submissions will be photographed and posted on the Downtown Rock Springs Facebook page. For entry forms and more details call 307-352-1434.
Those with existing artwork in the Art Underground Gallery wishing to have it returned, may call the office by May 2. After that, those pieces will be recycled.
The Rock Springs Main Street/URA is charged with the redevelopment of Downtown Rock Springs. Further details about the Rock Springs Main Street/URA can be found at their website (DowntownRS.com) or by contacting them at 307-352-1434.
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GREEN RIVER – Green River High School recently announced that Jessica Demaret is returning for her second stint as the head coach of the volleyball program.
Demaret, who graduated from Green River in 1996, is replacing Rikki Shantz, who stepped down from the head coaching position following the 2021 season. Demaret was the head coach for the program from 2006 to 2008. While head coach, she led the Lady Wolves to a second-place finish at the Western Regional Tournament as well as a fourth-place finish at the Wyoming State Championships.
During her time as an athlete at Green River High School, Demaret was a three-time all-state player in both volleyball and basketball, including being named Gatorade Basketball Player of the Year in 1996. She was also a state champion in track and field for discus throw. She is a member of two teams (basketball and track and field) that have been inducted into the Green River High School Hall of Fame.
Following her high school career, Demaret went on to play volleyball for the University of Wyoming Cowgirls for two seasons.
Demaret’s coaching career is extensive and includes one season as an assistant volleyball coach at Iowa Central Community College in 2001-2002.
She returned to Green River shortly after her college coaching experience where she has held multiple coaching positions over several years.
Demaret has taken on the positions of Lincoln Middle School Head Boys’ 7th Grade Basketball Coach, Lincoln Middle School Assistant 8th Grade Volleyball Coach, Green River High School Freshman Boys’ Basketball Coach, and Green River High School Sophomore Volleyball Coach.
Tony Beardsley, activities director for Sweetwater County School District No. 2, stated, “Jessica brings a wealth of volleyball knowledge to our Green River High School program. We are extremely excited that Coach Demaret will lead our volleyball team into the future.
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Baptist Community Ministries Names Inman J. Houston CEO
NEW ORLEANS — Baptist Community Ministries, the faith-based Christian foundation headquartered in New Orleans since 1995, has announced Inman J. Houston as CEO. Currently senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, Ga., Houston becomes the first ordained minister to lead the foundation.
Slade Simons, chair of BCM’s board of trustees and a member of the CEO search committee, applauded the appointment.
“BCM is such an important entity to the entire community,” he said. “Inman has shown his leadership skills and his commitment to the community as pastor of his church for the past 14 years. Combined with his prior five years of service in New Orleans, Inman is exceptionally well suited to honor BCM’s Baptist roots and its continued commitment to Greater New Orleans for years to come.”
“Inman’s unanimous appointment by BCM’s board followed an exceptionally thorough search, encompassing nearly 200 sources and prospects from at least 17 states,” said Dianne McGraw, chair of the CEO search committee. “Inman will add a refreshing perspective to BCM’s important work, and I am excited by the future he represents for BCM and the people we serve.”
Houston has been senior pastor of First Baptist Church since early 2008. Previously, he served for five years with First Baptist Church in New Orleans, concluding as associate pastor of global impact and director of the Baptist Crossroads Project. Among other roles, he coordinated the response to the community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which organized nearly 10,000 volunteers to assist over 800 homeowners, and he helped start the home rebuilding effort of what is now referred to as Musicians’ Village.
“Over 100 years ago, Baptists in New Orleans began dreaming of a Baptist hospital, and their legacy of service to God and the community continued with the creation of Baptist Community Ministries,” he said. “I have long appreciated BCM’s strategic impact, and the opportunity to lead such an institution is both exciting and humbling. I am truly honored by the board’s confidence.”
Baptist Community Ministries was formed in 1995 following the sale of Mercy+Baptist Medical Center to Tenet Healthcare. Since that time, it has been a leading funder of nonprofit organizations in greater New Orleans.
According to audited financials, grants and expenses for all programs and staff in fiscal 2021 totaled $17.4 million, including more than $12 million in grants. Net assets at the end of fiscal 2021 were $391 million, up 7.7% from the prior year.
For additional information, please visit www.BCM.org.
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| 2022-04-25T23:48:55Z
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Career Center Trainees Imagine New Use for Charity Hospital Building
NEW ORLEANS – From the New Orleans Career Center:
High school students in the engineering/manufacturing pathway at New Orleans Career Center have designed a new use for part of the long-vacant Charity Hospital, thanks to the guidance of professionals in the ACE Mentor Program. NOCC trainees will present their project at the ACE graduation ceremony on April 27 at an event at the University of New Orleans.
“The students came up with the idea to repurpose part of Charity Hospital as a multiplex with space for job training and services that help unhoused people re-enter society,” said Claire Jecklin, NOCC founding executive director. “The ACE Mentors ensure students understand the complexities involved in a project of that scale, accompany them on in-person visits to area employers, and develop real relationships they can rely on in the future. This program is a huge benefit to NOCC’s trainees, who will enter their working and college careers well- prepared with the knowledge, skills, and networks needed for those environments.”
NOCC’s engineering/manufacturing pathway provides hands-on training in the practical skills of drafting, 3D modeling, and prototyping. Students gain professional certification in Autodesk Inventor, a 3D CAD (computer- aided design) software widely used in industry for product design, rendering and simulation. Those involved in the ACE Mentor Program gain the added benefit of working side-by-side with architects, engineers and construction professionals on a project the students developed themselves.
THE ACE project team at NOCC consists of 13 students from a variety of New Orleans high schools. Students on the team serve in typical project roles such as architectural designers, civil or structural engineeers, construction estimators, project managers and construction supervisors. Six area professionals from architecture, engineering and construction backgrounds advise and mentor the students.
“The ACE program is as rewarding for the mentors as it is for the students,” said ACE Lead Mentor Joey Lefante, senior associate/traffic engineer at Stantec. “I was impressed by the passion they showed for their chosen project. They saw it as something which could provide a real public service. And at its core, that’s really what our industry is all about. The structure of the Career Center is unique in that it brings together students from many different schools. This helps create a culture of collaboration and prepares them to build relationships in a work environment.”
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Gathering of Energy Professionals Returns to New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — From New Orleans & Company:
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers PES T&D Conference and Exposition is scheduled for April 25-28 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. It’s the meeting’s first time in New Orleans in more than a decade. Over 9,500 attendees representing almost 40 utilities from around the world and roughly 650 exhibitors are expected to convene to reconnect with other energy professionals and explore a range of ideas driving change in the power and energy industry.
In partnership with Greater New Orleans STEM Initiative, IEEE will be hosting a competition for local high schools including teams from Haynes Academy, Ben Franklin High School and Kenner Discovery Academy. Teams will be challenged to design and build windmills while they explore offshore wind energy.
Young professionals and college students are encouraged to visit the Convention Center for sessions and activities designed to help launch careers in the industry. For more information and full schedule of events click here.
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| 2022-04-25T23:49:08Z
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La. Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against UnitedHealth Over Costs
BATON ROUGE (The Center Square) — Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is suing UnitedHealth Group Inc., the state’s Medicaid administrator, over an alleged scheme to inflate prescription drug costs by billions of dollars.
Landry filed the lawsuit against United and its pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, last week in East Baton Rouge Parish “to recover billions of dollars in inflated prescription drug prices charged by the defendants to the Louisiana Medicaid program.”
United Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, is one of several companies hired by the state to administer Medicaid, and its contract requires the company to spend a minimum share of premiums on medical care. The so-called medical-loss ratio (MLR) doesn’t apply to Optum Rx, which Landry accuses of inflating drug costs to help UnitedHealth meet its MLR.
“Since only United is required to abide by the MLR requirement, inflating the drug costs paid to Optum actually helps United meet its MLR but does not create an actual loss to their parent company,” according to the lawsuit. “Inflated payments to Optum are additional profits for United, yet one counted as costs for the purpose of meeting the MLR.”
Landry alleges Optum overcharges the state for generic drugs, profits from charging the state more than it pays pharmacies to fill prescriptions, and recovers money from pharmacies it doesn’t return to the state, Bloomberg reports.
The situation boils down to “unregulated middlemen, cloaked in secrecy, (who) drive up their own profits at the expense of Louisiana citizens,” Landry wrote in an email to the news site.
Landry contends Optum leverages “an unclear web of contracts” with drug manufacturers, health plans and pharmacies, to skim “a share of profits from each entity,” he wrote.
The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, violations of the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act and other violations. Landry is seeking damages, restitution, and penalties, as well as thousands of pages of requested documents the company has refused to provide.
Landry contends in the lawsuit United has refused to provide a final, signed contract with Optum. The company provided records to the attorney general in February, five months after a request for information, and “of the 2,191 pages contained in those 10 documents, 1,816, or 83%, are fully redacted,” the Ohio Capital Journal quoted from the lawsuit.
UnitedHealth denied any wrongdoing in a statement to Bloomberg.
“We believe this lawsuit is without merit and will defend ourselves against these unsupported allegations,” the statement read.
Landry’s lawsuit is among the latest attempts by state authorities to address alleged fraud by pharmacy benefits managers that run Medicaid drug programs.
Last year, Centene Corp. agreed to a $1.1 billion settlement to resolve similar claims of inflating pharmacy costs.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sued OptumRx in 2019 to recover nearly $16 million the company allegedly overcharged the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. Optum was also accused in 2017 of charging Ohio’s Medicaid program $26 million more for prescription drugs than it paid to pharmacies to dispense them, according to the Ohio Capital Journal
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LCMC Health Touts Partnership with Bernhard
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – In 2021, LCMC Health partnered with Bernhard to enter into a 15-year agreement to provide Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) solutions at seven of the healthcare system’s regional facilities.
The EaaS arrangement transfers the risk of utility operations and maintenance of LCMC Health’s chilled water system to Bernhard and allows for state-of-the-art infrastructure upgrades at locations including Children’s Hospital of New Orleans, Touro Infirmary, Woldenberg Village, East Jefferson General Hospital, West Jefferson Medical Center, Audubon Retirement Village, and University Medical Center.
“This partnership with Bernhard allows LCMC Health to invest in patient care and support community outcomes while focusing on improving efficiencies and sustainability at our hospitals and facilities,” said Scott Landry Senior, vice president of facilities & support services, LCMC Health. “The upgrades that are being completed through the LCMC Health Green project will not only improve cost savings for the system, but it will also benefit the community at large with reductions in carbon, gas and electricity consumption.”
Bernhard is delivering $88 million in upfront improvements to LCMC Health’s infrastructure including upgrades to chilled water, tower water, heating water, and steam systems, as well as air handling units, building controls and electrical infrastructure. Bernhard will also install three new heat pump chiller heaters, optimized procedure rooms, installation of LED lighting and facilitation of retro-commissioning of the building automation systems. These upgrades will create efficiencies and improvements in each facility’s operations and provide $8 million in annual utility cost savings once the improvements are completed.
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NANO Architecture | Interiors Honored as 2022 Louisiana Growth Leader
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — For outstanding contributions to the local community and state, Louisiana Economic Development honored NANO as a 2022 Louisiana Growth Leader at the fifth annual Spotlight Louisiana event on April 21 at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. As an Honored Leader, NANO is part of an accomplished group of Louisiana businesses under the LED Growth Network.
Through this esteemed network, NANO will continue to have access to strategic business resources that benefit both the organization and the state of Louisiana. Among these are customized leadership retreats, strategic research, networking, peer learning, and mentorship opportunities as well as additional technical assistance with the goal of accelerating Louisiana’s economic growth.
Louisiana Growth Leaders are selected by a statewide panel of economic development professionals that evaluate applications on a wide variety of criteria including growth, strategy, innovation, philanthropy, leadership, and company culture. The following are the key factors that influenced NANO’s selection:
- Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE)
- Managing Partner, Terri Dreyer, was President of the AIA New Orleans Chapter in 2020
- First and only Louisiana firm to be invited to the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibit; recipient of the ECC Time Space Existence Architecture Award
- Currently the Architect of Record for the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Interior Renovations – the largest contract amount ever awarded to an SLDBE by the New Orleans Exhibition Hall
- Noteworthy projects: Frederick Douglass Senior High School Auditorium, Il Mercato, Octavia Books & Toast, GNO Inc. Offices, Festival Productions Offices, 616 Conti, 2513 Metairie Road, Weinstein’s, Southwest Pass Station and more
“Each of our 2022 Louisiana Growth Leaders have succeeded in bringing great products and services to the marketplace,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “The companies being recognized have persevered through challenges, capitalized on opportunities, and represent some of the best of what Louisiana has to offer. I look forward to their continued success.”
“Tonight’s 2022 Growth Leader honorees are important companies in Louisiana, providing more than good jobs and a foundation of economic activity,” LED Secretary Don Pierson said. “They are community leaders and supporters, with vision and drive. I had the privilege of meeting many of this year’s recipients through LED Growth Network programs, hearing their stories of meeting challenges, and watching them succeed in scaling their companies. LED is honored to play a role in supporting their growth objectives and celebrating their hard-earned success.”
“After graduating with our master’s degrees in architecture at Tulane School of Architecture in 2001, Ian and I started NANO with just $5,000 in the bank and an ambitious vision to create a unique architecture firm distinct from any other architecture firm in New Orleans,” said NANO architect and co-founder Terri Dreyer. “We could have never predicted experiencing the growth, exposure and success at the scale that we have.”
“The LED Growth Network has been an invaluable resource for our firm, and we are extremely honored to have been acknowledged for a third consecutive year,” said NANO architect Ian Dreyer, Terri’s co-founder and husband. “LED has provided us with incredible business connections and avenues for firm advancement and growth. We are humbled by this recognition and equally inspired to continue NANO’s commitment to providing high quality, detailed architectural design services.”
More information about NANO can be found in the online publication Louisiana’s Entrepreneurial Engine.
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| 2022-04-25T23:49:26Z
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Southern Industrial Conference Coming to the Ritz-Carlton
NEW ORLEANS — The 2022 Southern Industrial Conference is scheduled for May 31 and June 1 at the Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans. The event will feature company executives and expert advisors sharing economic development and growth opportunities. Guest speakers include Stephen Jury, global commodity strategist of the J.P. Morgan Private Bank; and Zane Tarence, partner and managing director of Founders Advisors.
From the organizers:
“The U.S. economy is experiencing unprecedented post-pandemic growth plus the state and federal sectors are investing significant funds in infrastructure and energy-transition projects. Our discussions will provide a wide range of information to help all-sized private and public companies in the region learn more about those opportunities as well as other ways to grow, improve and market their companies. Registrants will be able to ask questions at the conclusion of each session.”
The agenda currently includes sessions covering these topics for industrial companies:
- Regional Industrial Economic Development Panel
- Critical Issues Facing Industrial Companies
- Recent trends in M&A and the Near-Term Outlook
- Changes in Federal and State Tax Laws
- Washington Political Update & Status of Infrastructure Spending
- Carbon Capture (CCUS) Opportunities for Industrial Companies
- ESG Trends and the Increasing Impact on All Companies
- Private Equity and Alternative Capital Providers
- Managing Financial & Operational Risk
- Creating a Unique Corporate Identity in a Global Economy
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Stirling Properties, PMAT Acquire Crossroads Center in Gulfport
GULFPORT, Miss. — PMAT-Stirling Crossroads, led by Stirling Properties and PMAT Companies, successfully completed its acquisition of Crossroads Center, a 554,720-square-foot open-air retail center in Gulfport.
Located at 15082 Crossroads Parkway, Crossroads Center sits at the intersection of Interstate 10 and US-49 and is home to Academy Sports, Belk, Cinemark, Barnes & Noble, T.J.Maxx, Ross Dress For Less, Burkes Outlet, Michaels, PetSmart, Five Below, ULTA Beauty, Shoe Carnival, Party City, and Old Navy. Overall, the center has more than 50 tenants. It is 92% occupied and contains several outparcels, including TGI Fridays, Chuck E. Cheese, Navy Federal Credit Union/Mattress Firm and Longhorn Steakhouse.
b1BANK served as the lender for the deal. Stirling Properties will assume daily management responsibilities and leasing of the center moving forward. Rhonda Sharkawy, senior retail leasing and development advisor with Stirling Properties, is the leasing agent on the property.
“Stirling Properties and PMAT Companies have an existing relationship, as Stirling Properties serves as PMAT’s lead strategic partner for property management of their portfolio, so there is existing synergy between our two companies and their operations,” said Donna Smith, executive vice president at Stirling Properties, in a press release. “We are excited to enter into this joint venture with PMAT Companies on the acquisition of Crossroads Center, which will grow and strengthen both our portfolios as well as our working relationship.”
“We are excited to acquire another fundamentally sound asset with well-performing tenants in a market that maintains pent-up prospective tenant demand but is in a geography frequently overlooked by many institutional players. PMAT is already leveraging our national presence and relationships in conjunction with Stirling’s local expertise to source significant interest from new tenants as well as numerous opportunities to work with the well-performing existing tenants to create mutual long-term value,” said Kevin Kush, president of PMAT. “Crossroads Center is the largest power center servicing the Gulfport region, and it benefits from a prominent location providing accessibility to thousands of people daily. Simply put, this is good dirt. We remain extremely active in the capital markets across our geographic footprint and remain open to additional JVs and direct purchases of middle-market assets typically in the $10-50 million deal size.”
Based in Covington, Stirling Properties is a full-service commercial real estate company with a wide array of property types across the Gulf South. Also located on the Northshore, PMAT is a real estate development firm focused on value-add shopping center investments across the Southeast, Sunbelt, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. The firm is headed by Robert A. Whelan, the former CFO at Sizeler Property Investors.
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| 2022-04-25T23:49:39Z
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Urban League Accepting Applications for Program in Terrebonne
NEW ORLEANS — From the Urban League of Louisiana:
The Urban League, in partnership with Capital One, will host its sixth cohort of Scale Up! Louisiana. This cohort is designated for small businesses in Terrebonne parish.
Scale Up! Louisiana is a statewide entrepreneurial education intensive hosted by the Urban League of Louisiana’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The program provides early-stage entrepreneurs with the education and resources that are critical to creating a scalable and profitable business. This is a transition program that guides existing, early-stage small business owners towards becoming high-growth, sustainable ventures.
This modular program will be delivered in-person 9, 6-hour sessions, and 5 pre-recorded web sessions adhering to CDC, state, and city guidelines. Participants will receive technical assistance and other support services throughout the program.
Scale Up! Louisiana Cohort 6 is sponsored by Capital One, AARP, and Louisiana Economic Development.
Interested entrepreneurs must apply for the Scale Up! Louisiana program. The application deadline is Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 5:00p.m. CST and must be submitted online at https://tinyurl.com/2p8ce93m.
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24-year-old Kula fisherman who died in waters off Wainapanapa State Park identified | UDPATE By Sunshine Kuhia Smith Sunshine Kuhia Smith Assignment Editor/Digital Producer Author email Apr 25, 2022 Apr 25, 2022 Updated 2 hrs ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE A 24-year-old Kula man has died after Maui Police found his unresponsive body Saturday in waters offshore from Wainapanapa State Park.He is identified as Matthew Brown-Chong Kee. The man was reported missing late Friday night after he failed to return from fishing earlier that day. Crews from the police department, Coast Guard and the family of the missing man began a search at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning. His body was found later Saturday about 50 yards offshore from the the state park. Witnesses say Chee's father pulled his body out of the water and onto a jet ski operated by a family member. Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Sunshine Kuhia Smith Assignment Editor/Digital Producer Author email Follow Sunshine Kuhia Smith Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today More From KITV 4 Island News Business Mauna Kea debate continues as lawmakers discuss related bills Updated 3 hrs ago Video State Representative Sonny Ganaden joins KITV to discuss what he wants to see done in the areas affected by the ongoing water crisis. Updated Dec 11, 2021 Local Power outages reported all over Hawaii as ‘Kona Low’ storm systems pushes through Updated Dec 6, 2021 Local Court documents say defendants didn't commit crime in paying out Honolulu police chief to retire Updated Apr 7, 2022 News Red Hill water crisis impact: Some developers stop projects after no guarantee of water Updated Apr 22, 2022 Crime & Courts Pepeekeo man indicted on 3 counts for alleged child pornography and violation of privacy charges Updated Apr 4, 2022 Recommended for you
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News Red Hill water crisis impact: Some developers stop projects after no guarantee of water Updated Apr 22, 2022
Crime & Courts Pepeekeo man indicted on 3 counts for alleged child pornography and violation of privacy charges Updated Apr 4, 2022
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Report: National gas prices up again after a brief decrease
(Gray News) – Gas prices have risen again after a short dip nationwide.
According to a report from AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gas rose four cents over the past week to $4.12.
Fears that less Russian oil will enter the global market are countered by fears of a COVID-caused economic slowdown in China, which is the world’s leading oil consumer. These forces are opposed and causing the oil price to hover around $100 a barrel, according to the report.
The current national average for a gallon of gas, which sits at $4.12, is 12 cents less than it was a month ago. It’s $1.24 more than it was one year ago, at $2.88.
The states with the top three weekly increases are:
- Maryland, with a 13 cent increase
- Delaware, with a 12 cent increase
- Kansas, with an 11 cent increase
The top three least expensive states are:
- Georgia, where the price is $3.71
- Arkansas, where the price is $3.74
- Missouri, where the price is $3.75
You can learn what prices are at gas stations near you with the AAA app. More information can be found at AAA.com/mobile.
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Child prodigy: 13-year-old set to graduate with bachelor’s degree this year
(CNN/KARE) – Call him young Sheldon.
A 13-year-old whiz kid in Minnesota is about to graduate college.
Elliott Tanner is getting his Bachelor of Science in physics in May from the University of Minnesota. He minored in math.
Elliott’s mom says he started reading, without being taught, and doing math at age three.
He started community college at age nine and earned an associate’s degree two years later.
In a 2019 interview, he said he wants to understand the deepest secrets of the universe.
Now that he’s finished his undergrad, Elliott is continuing on at U of M, where he starts a PhD program in the fall.
He didn’t get financial aid or a tuition waiver, so friends and family are raising money for his tuition.
Elliott wants to be a high-energy theoretical physicist, and hopes to become a professor at U of M.
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Cross-country county leaders arrive in Mercer County for days-long “Spring Convening”
MERCER COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA) - County leaders from across the country arrived in Mercer County Monday for their first full day of the National Association of Counties’ “Spring Convening.”
With a jam-packed schedule set through Wednesday, locals here said they’re working to show the out-of-towners what Mercer County has to offer.
“It’s really about selling ourselves and telling a story that you need to invest in West Virginia,” said Mercer County Commissioner Greg Puckett. There’s no better place to do that, and I think that’s the message we’re sending out today.”
Including Mercer, 19 different counties took part in Monday’s events -- ranging from an ATV tour in Bramwell to a talk with Bluefield, W.Va.’s Economic Development Authority and many more in-between.
“I think there’s so much here that we can take back and maybe, while you can’t use everything there’s some portions that we could probably borrow and seal and use to make our own communities much better,” said Manuel Ruiz, Santa Cruz, Az. County Supervisor.
“Also how forward-thinking they are being, in making sure that this area gets to take advantage of all the funding that’s available through the infrastructure law,” said Eileen Higgins, Miami-Dade, Fl. County Commissioner.
“Two out of every three counties is considered rural,” said Teryn Zmuda, Chief Resource Officer, National Association of Counties. “One out of every five Americans live in a rural county. So it’s incredibly important to look at the unique composition of local rural economies and what sustains those economies.”
The group has a fully-packed schedule set for Tuesday, with events in Pipestem and Camp Creek State Park set to begin the day.
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Mercer County announces its place in pilot program to ‘grow’ teachers
PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) - Today, Monday, April 25, Mercer County announced that it will become the pilot county for West Virginia’s “Grow Your Own” program. According to state educators, the program is to incentivize students to become future teachers.
Clayton Burch, West Virginia State Superindentent, says there are 250,000 students enrolled in public schools in West Virginia with only 23,000 teachers to educate them. Currently, there are 1,200 teacher vacancies across the state. Burch says West Virginia needs English teachers, Science teachers, Math teachers, History teachers and even PE teachers.
To help fill this gap, the “Grow Your Own” program allows high school students to get ahead by completing a year’s worth of college credits for free. Upon high school graduation, they will complete two more years of college at a participating university and, then, spend their last year as a paid resident teacher in Mercer County.
Today, Burch visited Mercer County students at MC Tech in Princeton to discuss the benefits of this program.
“I think it’s important that we get these young people engaged, so they actually go through the program, become a teacher and come back and give back to that community,” he shared. “They are going to be even more powerful than teachers that aren’t from here. You know, it’s a win-win for West Virginia; It’s a win for Mercer County.”
12 colleges in the state- including Bluefield State, Marshall and Concord University- have already pledged to participate. Additionally, 20 counties are interested in the program and hope to adopt the same incentives for their students.
For now, Burch says they are working to secure additional government funding, which would leave students with no student debt.
Mercer County will launch “Grow Your Own” in 2022.
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Police release videos in probe of Baldwin film-set shooting
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation of a fatal October shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of a Western movie.
Data files released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office included a video of investigators debriefing Baldwin within hours of the fatal shooting, talking with him inside a compact office. The investigation files also include rehearsal clips that show Baldwin in costume as he practices a quick-draw maneuver with a gun.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in a statement that the investigation by his agency remains open and ongoing as it awaits the results of ballistics and forensic analysis from the FBI as well as studies of fingerprint and DNA.
“The sheriff’s office is releasing all files associated with our ongoing investigation,” he said in the statement. Those files also include photos of ammunition from the set and examination reports.
At a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins when it went off, killing Hutchins and wounding the director, Joel Souza. They had been inside a small church during setup for filming a scene.
In a video taken by police later that day, Baldwin makes a few frantic calls as he awaits a meeting with law enforcement officials.
“You have no idea how unbelievable this is and how strange this is,” he says over the phone.
New Mexico workplace safety regulators last week issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against the “Rust” film production company.
New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau said Rust Movie Productions must pay $136,793, and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures in violation of standard industry protocols, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires on set prior to the fatal shooting.
The bureau also documented gun safety complaints from crew members that went unheeded and said weapons specialists were not allowed to make decisions about additional safety training. Rust Movie Productions has indicated it will dispute the findings and sanction.
Baldwin said in a December interview with ABC News that he was on set pointing the gun at Hutchins at her instruction when it went off without his pulling the trigger.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Karen Matsunaga teaches a line dancing class every week for dozens of elderly members at the Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center. The retired school teacher, now 73 years old, regularly volunteers -- helping with special events, food distribution and excursions whenever needed.
"There's so many opportunities to help. That's something I've always enjoyed doing," Matsunaga said.
Matsunaga is one of more than 600 volunteers at the center that has only three and a half staff serving 1,600 members.
"Without our volunteers, we could not do the tremendous work that's here,” said Susie Chun Oakland. "They have made just a quality of life for many people, wonderful."
Matsunaga's heart for public service started with her parents who were also lifelong teachers. She says volunteerism is ingrained in her family.
"I've always participated when given the opportunity," Matsunaga said.
She also helps in her community choir and especially loves singing at the convalescent home.
"That's the best 45 minutes that you've spent helping other people and just bringing some joy to their day," Matsunaga said.
Giving back is part of the mission of the senior center in Kalihi -- "We Play, We Learn, We Serve," where members have become like family.
"When you see them teaching their peers or being able to spend time just to talk story with people, you can see it in their faces. And people really feel this is their second home," said Oakland.
Matsunaga retired from Roosevelt High School in 2016 and started line dancing that summer. And since then her passion has become helping seniors stay fit, mentally and physically, and connected to each other.
"Some do live alone you know. And I'm not sure how many of them are that this may be the only thing they might come out for. But just to see their progress and just enjoy what they're doing, if I can contribute to that and make it easier step by step," said Matsunaga.
That's the most rewarding part for her, always teaching and enriching people's lives.
Kristen joined KITV4 in March 2021 after working for the past two decades as a newspaper reporter. Kristen's goal is to produce meaningful journalism that educates, enlightens and inspires to affect positive change in society.
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PEARL CITY (KITV4) – Three Native Hawaiian-owned food businesses were crowned the winners of the Kamehameha Schools Mah’ai Match-Up, an agricultural business plan competition awarding a total of $50,000. The event, the ‘Aha ‘Aina Pauahi, took place at the Pearl Country Club, and was hosted by the Pauahi Foundation on Sunday evening.
The businesses received the funds along and property and land opportunities to grow around the Islands.
The 2022 winners of Mahi‘ai Match-Up are:
• Waiāhole Poi Factory - $25,000 cash award, and expansion opportunity at a KS commercial property within Kapālama Kai, O‘ahu;
• Kanekoa Farm - $15,000 cash award, and an agricultural land agreement on KS lands on O‘ahu;
• ‘Awa Bird - $10,000 cash award, and an agricultural land agreement on KS lands on Hawai‘i island.
The other Mahi‘ai Match-Up finalists were Kiʻowao Farms, a passion project Sean Tomas and Christy Tomas started with a backyard garden in Mānoa and their signature Lickin Liliko‘i Butter; and MetroGrow Hawaii, Hawaii's first indoor, vertical farm, growing high-quality, nutritious and clean hydroponic produce for chefs, gourmet markets and the community, owned by Kerry Kakazu.
“Winning this competition helps us realize the vision of re-establishing a connection to ʻāina-based food in the urban core of Oahu,” said Kelikokauaikekai “Liko” Hoe, owner of Waiāhole Poi Factory and a 1992 KS Kapālama graduate. “Waiāhole Poi Factory is part of a long history of nourishing community that goes back centuries and will hopefully continue into the future. We have helped to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian food culture and practices for both the local and visitor communities.”
“We are a small farm looking to scale up and support more local chefs who need access to high-quality vegetables on a consistent basis,” said Gina Kanekoa, owner of Kanekoa Farm and a 2006 KS Kapālama alumna. “Winning Mahi‘ai Match-Up means we would have access to a land parcel with waived rent and through this waived rent, we would have enough time to replicate what we are doing successfully in Waimānalo.”
“Winning this competition allows my business to expand from a nursery to a full production farm and make my lifelong dream of having my own farm a reality,” said Nelson Crabbe, owner of ʻAwa Bird. “What makes ‘Awa Bird special is that it will produce and sell all of the 13 known Hawaiian cultivars of ‘awa at an affordable price. Fresh frozen Hawaiian ‘awa should not be so expensive that it is only reserved for local people to enjoy at special occasions and ceremonies.”
Participants’ business plans and final pitches were reviewed by a panel of judges on April 8 that included Greg Gaug, senior vice president, Investments & Analytics, Ulupono Initiative; Dallas Stewart, co-founder, Hawaiian Kine Trading Co. and 2021 Mahi‘ai Scale-up Winner; and Walter Thoemmes, managing director, Commercial Real Estate Group, Kamehameha Schools.
KS stewards more than 181,000 acres of agricultural land across Hawaii. Farmers on KS land grow a variety of vegetables, orchard, and specialty crops and raise livestock, producing nearly 19 million pounds of food per year.
To learn more about Mahi‘ai Match-Up, visit www.ksbe.edu/mahiai.
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| 2022-04-26T02:57:56Z
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As Russia's invasion of Ukraine has transformed into a grinding war of attrition with no meaningful peace deal in sight, the US and its allies have begun to convey a new, longer-term goal for the war: to defeat Russia so decisively on the battlefield that it will be deterred from launching such an attack ever again.
That message was delivered most clearly on Monday, when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters after a trip to Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv that "we want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine."
A National Security Council spokesperson said that Austin's comments were consistent with what the US' goals have been for months -- namely, "to make this invasion a strategic failure for Russia."
"We want Ukraine to win," the spokesperson added. "One of our goals has been to limit Russia's ability to do something like this again, as Secretary Austin said. That's why we are arming the Ukrainians with weapons and equipment to defend themselves from Russian attacks, and it's why we are using sanctions and export controls that are directly targeted at Russia's defense industry to undercut Russia's economic and military power to threaten and attack its neighbors."
US officials traveling with Austin said that the message is one that he planned to reiterate, according to a senior administration official. Russia coming out of the conflict weaker than before is an idea that other Biden administration officials have referenced. US officials, however, had previously been reluctant to state as plainly that the US' goal is to see Russia fail, and be militarily neutered in the long term, remaining cautiously optimistic that some kind of negotiated settlement could be reached.
One eastern European official told CNN that mentality was incredibly frustrating. "The only solution to this is for Ukraine to win," he said.
The shift in strategy has come about over the past few weeks, evidenced by a growing tolerance for increased risk with the more complex, western weaponry being sent in, and is a reflection of the belief that Putin's goals in Ukraine would not end if he manages to seize part of Ukraine, as they didn't after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, a British diplomat said.
"Even if they come up with some fix where (Putin) gets a bit of the Donbas and it all goes dormant, logic would dictate there's more road to run in this. So therefore what you can take off the battlefield in this window is not only a short-term win it's also a longer term strategy as well."
Now, there is a growing realization among US and Western officials -- especially after the Russians' massacre of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha -- that Russia needs to be hurt so much economically and on the battlefield that its aggression is stopped for good, US and Western officials told CNN.
"So it has already lost a lot of military capability," Austin said. "And a lot of its troops, quite frankly. And we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability."
Biden administration officials are optimistic that that is an achievable goal, sources told CNN. Administration officials and congressional sources said they believe that the continued military support to Ukraine could result in significant blows to Russia that will impair their long-term military capabilities, strategically benefiting the US.
Already, the US has begun to send heavier and more sophisticated equipment to Ukraine that it had refrained from providing in the past, including 72 howitzers and Phoenix Ghost tactical drones.
"The way we are looking at this is that it's making an investment to neuter the Russian army and navy for next decade," said a congressional source familiar with the ongoing military assistance to Ukraine.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday that while "obviously right now the war is in Ukraine," the US and its allies are "are also looking to prevent (Russia) from expanding their efforts and President Putin's objectives beyond that too."
A delicate 'balancing act'
Officials noted, though, that the US and its allies are carefully threading a needle when it comes to penalizing Russia -- both because of the collateral damage harsh sanctions could have on the global economy, and because of the risk that Putin could lash out if he is backed too far into a corner.
A source familiar with the US' intelligence assessments about Russia said "there is certainly a balancing act that needs to be taken into consideration" when punishing the country, "whether it's in the sanctions space or in the military and intelligence support space."
This person added that while the US still assesses that Putin's red lines for use of nuclear weapons haven't changed, "one of those red lines is regime stability," they said -- meaning that Putin could lash out if he feels his rule is seriously threatened.
A US official said separately that he believes Austin's comments were not helpful for that reason, and because it could play into the Russian propaganda line that NATO and US support for Ukraine is a power play.
The goal is not to tell the Russians that "no matter what, the US and NATO are going to weaken you," this official said, but rather that the West will aim to punish Russia as long as it is at war with Ukraine.
A State Department spokesperson said that the sanctions the US and its allies have put in place are "all in response to Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine. They are intended to prevent Putin from buying more ammo, guns, missiles -- to stop him from funding his war machine, to stop the killing. They are also intended to punish those who actively support Putin's unprovoked, brutal war. This is not about harming the Russian people."
It is still unclear what the US would do about the sanctions if Russia reached a meaningful peace deal with Ukraine and withdrew its forces. Multiple sources told CNN that in that scenario, the US would likely consider lifting some sanctions, in a show of good faith, while keeping others. The US and allies, including the UK, have also been weighing the feasibility of a "snapback" mechanism that would allow them to quickly reimpose the sanctions should Moscow violate any agreements reached with Kyiv, the sources said.
But with the conflict still raging and the prospects of a peace deal looking increasingly dim, those options are a very long way off from being implemented, officials said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in March that Russia's change in behavior must be "irreversible" before the US considers lifting sanctions.
"They will want to make sure that anything that's done is, in effect, irreversible, that this can't happen again, that Russia won't pick up and do exactly what it's doing in a year or two years or three years," Blinken said in an interview with NPR.
Shifting concerns about escalation
Russia's poor performance and significant losses on the battlefield have contributed significantly to the US' increasingly emboldened posture, officials said.
Whereas Washington had been previously concerned that sending heavy artillery might be viewed as a provocation, Biden has announced billions of dollars in new shipments of tanks, missiles and ammunition over the past month, an indication that some initial worries about escalating the conflict have waned.
The US is also preparing to train Ukraine's armed forces on more state-of-the-art, NATO-capable weapons systems, Austin told reporters on Monday -- a move that will allow the US and its allies to provide more powerful weapons to Ukraine more quickly, since those systems are more readily available than the Soviet-era equipment the west has had to scrounge for to date.
"There are a number of shifts happening simultaneously," the British diplomat said. "One is looking at future capabilities and that's related to the artillery and more modern weaponry. Two, let's take out what's on the battlefield."
Biden himself has been steadily ratcheting up the rhetoric in describing Putin -- going from calling him a war criminal to saying he cannot remain in power to accusing him of committing genocide -- despite worries among some of his advisers the language could cause Putin to lash out.
But the President has downplayed those concerns in private, according to people familiar with the conversations, saying that articulating what is plainly evident is more important than risking possible escalation. And he has underscored that Russia's military capabilities don't appear as strong as the US once believed.
Ambassador Nathan Sales, who until 2021 served as acting under secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights at the State Department, said the "bottom line" is that "a weaker Russia means a more stable world," and that the US should prepare for its Russia policy
"As long as Putin is calling the shots, Russia is going to be a malign actor," he said. "And so we can't hope for Russia to be a constructive and responsible player in Europe or in the broader international system." Sales added that the US should therefore prepare for "a prolonged period" of its Russia policy being aimed at limiting its ability "to cause mischief around the world."
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| 2022-04-26T02:58:02Z
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Elon Musk is officially set to buy Twitter, and the company's employees have questions.
At an all-hands meeting Monday afternoon with CEO Parag Agrwal and Board Chair Bret Taylor, Twitter employees raised questions about everything from what the deal would mean for their compensation to whether former US President Donald Trump would be let back on the platform, according to audio of the call obtained by CNN.
The call comes after Twitter's board announced on Monday that it had reached a deal to sell the company to Musk for $54.20 per share. The deal caps off a stunning news cycle in which the Tesla and SpaceX CEO became one of Twitter's largest shareholders, was offered and turned down a seat on its board and bid to buy the company — all in less than a month — and puts the world's richest man in charge of one of the most influential social networks. It also raises big questions about how Musk's proposed changes for the platform, including loosening content restrictions, will take shape.
Agrawal, who has been in charge of Twitter for only four months, told employees not to expect big changes before the deal closes, which is set to happen before the end of this year. He also said that "there are no plans for any layoffs at this point" and that Twitter's remote work policies will continue until the deal closes.
"Between now and closing ... we will continue making decisions as we've always had, guided by the principles we've had," he said. "That doesn't mean things won't change, things have been changing ... I have been talking about driving positive change at the company, and I will continue doing so because it makes us better and it makes us stronger. Once the deal closes, different decisions might be made."
Agrawal said that Twitter's leadership would seek to find time for employees to ask questions directly of Musk. He added that he expects to spend time with Musk and will tell the billionaire about the principles that have guided Twitter's decisions.
In response to the question about whether Trump's account — which was removed from Twitter early last year for violating its policies on inciting violence following the Capitol Riot — would be restored on the platform, Agrawal told staff that is something they should ask Musk and said, "once the deal closes, we will know what direction the platform will go."
One employee asked what Musk's takeover could mean for Twitter's "commitment to responsible, ethical" artificial intelligence and machine learning, saying, "we've been viewed as industry leaders in this field and have attracted some of the field's best and brightest minds, but it would seem that new ownership's values are not in alignment."
Agrawal called such work "critical for Twitter to be able to serve our customers" and said "we need to continue doing that work."
Other employees asked what Musk's takeover could mean for employee retention and attrition. The deal comes at a time when there is already heightened competition for talent in the labor market, especially in the tech industry.
"This is indeed a period of uncertainty," Agrawal said. "All of you have different feelings and views about this news, many of you are concerned, some of you are excited, many people here are waiting to understand how this goes and have an open mind ... If we work with each other, we will not have to worry about losing the core of what makes Twitter powerful, which is all of us working together in the interest of our customers every day."
Later in the call, Agrawal said he was "optimistic" about the future of the company.
"The way I think about what he has said ... he wants Twitter to be a powerful, positive force in the world, just like all of us," Agrawal said.
For his part, Musk said in a statement Monday that, "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated." He added that, "Twitter has tremendous potential -- I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it."
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| 2022-04-26T02:58:08Z
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PH Northern hockey hires Lewis Nowakowski as coach after Chris Jones steps down
Brenden Welper
Port Huron Times Herald
A familiar face will return to the rink at Port Huron Northern next fall.
The Huskies have hired Lewis Nowakowski as their next hockey coach. Jason Kasparian, the school's athletic director, made the announcement on Twitter Saturday.
Nowakowski replaces Chris Jones, who decided to step down but will remain involved behind the scenes. Jones went 23-22 in two seasons with the Huskies and won a Division 2 regional title in 2021.
A former player at Northern, Nowakowski was on the team that made it to a Division 2 state semifinal in 2012.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Contact Brenden Welper at bwelper@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrendenWelper.
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| 2022-04-26T03:33:00Z
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Gunfire interrupts youth baseball game in South Carolina
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - A parent’s video shows children ducking for cover Monday night as gunfire erupted during a youth baseball game in North Charleston.
Blake Ferguson was recording the game as his son was on the pitching mound at Pepperhill Ball Field. Ferguson’s video captured the sound of multiple shots, sending children and officials running for cover.
WARNING: This video may contain disturbing content.
North Charleston Police have not yet released a statement on the incident.
WCSC reports Ferguson said he heard between 50 to 75 shots and believes the gunfire happened in the parking lot.
After the shooting ended, he said multiple parents’ vehicles had been struck by gunfire.
There was no word on whether anyone was injured.
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| 2022-04-26T04:32:03Z
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Henley Middle School eighth-grader Feather Crume is considering a career in the medical field – or perhaps in education. Classmate Rachel Edwards is interested in agriculture.
Crume and Edwards were among Henley Middle School eighth-graders who spent a day at Henley High School last week, exploring Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and other electives available to them when they enter high school in the fall. This week, counselors are working with the students to help them determine their ninth-grade class schedules.
“It’s been a real learning experience,” Edwards said as she rotated with classmates through CTE Day stations, including ag science, welding, engineering, education, digital media, business marketing and health occupations. She had a chance to weld, drive a robot, create an image in Photoshop, extract strawberry DNA, and learn about Henley’s FFA program, which manages a greenhouse and raises steers, lambs, and chickens.
“The agriculture was really exciting, and we did some fun experiments,” she said. “I’m kind of leaning towards agriculture, but I’m going to try different things.”
Crume has always been interested in the medical field, but after learning about Henley’s education pathway, she is thinking about teaching as well. “I like helping people,” she said. “I’m thinking about exploring both.”
Before attending CTE Day, eighth-graders took an aptitude test called YouScience, which offers brain challenges that measure individual strengths, pointing students to career cluster options. The results are meant to provide insight to strengths students may not realize they have.
Henley Middle School was among 20 schools statewide and three in the Klamath County School District that worked with Southern Oregon Education Service District last year as part of the YouScience pilot for the Oregon Department of Education. This is the first year eighth-graders participated in a hands-on CTE Day at the high school.
The goal of CTE Day and YouScience testing is for incoming ninth-graders to be able to make more informed choices on classes or education pathways they can pursue in high school. It also gives students an opportunity to learn the names and faces of upperclassmen and ensure a smoother transition from middle school to high school, said Adam Randall, Henley High School CTE coordinator.
Starting next year, Henley High School will be offering seven CTE pathways: agriculture science, business, health occupations, engineering, agriculture mechanics, digital media, and education. These career-oriented pathways offer opportunities for college course alignment and college dual credit.
“We promote a multitude of paths — trade school, apprenticeships, and two-year or four-year college programs,” Randall said. “We are connecting with eighth-graders, showing them what we offer and how that matches up with their strengths and aptitudes.”
Henley senior Corey Wade was among FFA students helping eighth-graders extract DNA from frozen strawberries. Wade plans to attend college next year and major in chemistry on the way to a career as a forensic scientist.
“We’re trying to get kids more engaged with FFA, and one of the ways we’re doing it is by showing some of the fun activities and experiments we do,” Wade said. “I would have been much more involved if I had started earlier.”
Henley High School students Hannah Rabe and Joci Lambert are involved in DECA and business marketing classes. During CTE Day, they talked with eighth-graders about the importance of business courses and the opportunities provided by participating in the school’s competitive DECA club.
“I think this is important, and business helps them with anything they want to go into,” Lambert said.
Rabe urged younger students to get take advantage of the available programs and clubs. “DECA allows them to see opportunities that are out there. There are so many reasons to get involved.”
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| 2022-04-26T04:47:41Z
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Eastern Oregon pulled even in the Cascade Collegiate Conference softball race with a come-from-behind Game 1 win, but third-ranked Oregon Tech salvaged the final game of the weekend series with an extra-inning victory Saturday at Peggy Anderson Field in La Grande.
The Mountaineers (37-12 overall, 22-5 CCC) won the opener 7-3 before OIT plated four two-out runs in the eighth to snag a 9-6 win in the non-conference finale.
“We battled early in Game 1 to take the lead, but we did not continue to put the pressure on them offensively after the third inning,” OIT coach Greg Stewart said. “We gave them extra outs in back-to-back innings that resulted in big hits and Eastern plating six unanswered runs.”
The Lady Owls (38-10, 22-5) led 3-1 in the third inning of the opener – getting a first inning Maggie Buckholz sacrifice fly, a second inning home run from Jayce Seavert — her 11th of the year — and Buckholz adding an RBI ground out in the third.
EOU took charge from there, tying the score in the third and using a four-run fourth to pull ahead. Hannah Tyree broke the stalemate with a sacrifice fly and RBI singles from Taylor Dow and Grace Gaither extended the margin.
Amanda Smith did the rest, limiting Tech to just four hits in earning the win – with McKenna Armantrout and Seavert each going 2-for-3 for the Owls in the loss.
In the nightcap, OIT took a 3-0 lead in the second on the strength of an RBI single from Lexi Klum and a 2-run single from Kaila Mick. Kennedy Jantzi pushed the lead to 4-1 in the third with a solo home run to left.
Eastern answered again, as a Gaither home run tied the score in the third and a bases loaded walk in the fourth gave the Mounties a 5-4 lead.
OIT forced extra innings as Seavert lined an RBI single in the fifth to tie the game and Mckenzie Staub worked five strong innings of relief. The visitors struck with 2-outs in the eighth, as Armantrout lined an RBI single and Jantzi followed with a long 3-run homer to give the Owls an insurmountable lead.
Tech had 15 hits in the win, with Armantrout, Buckholz and Jantzi each logging three hits.
Eastern Oregon stunned OIT with back-to-back walk-off wins Friday, claiming 4-3 and 3-2 victories.
The Owls return home this weekend for a four-game series against Bushnell.
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Lewis-Clark State 8-4, Oregon Tech 2-4: Lewis-Clark State spoiled Senior Day for nine Oregon Tech student-athletes, sweeping a Sunday doubleheader from the Hustlin’ Owls at Steen Sports Park.
The No. 5-ranked Warriors (45-4, 16-3) used a five-run second inning to win Game 1, and rallied for a 10-inning win in the finale – as LC’s Sam Linscott hit for the cycle, including the go-ahead, two-run homer in extra innings.
OIT (30-21, 9-11) had a pair of school records tied or broken – as Dalton Daily hit his school-record 15th home run in the opener, and Kaleb Keelean hit his seventh triple, equaling the single-season record.
“This was a tough series – we battled for 36 innings against a great team and had opportunities to win multiple games this weekend,” OIT coach Jacob Garsez. “Culture is everything to us. How we carry ourselves, how we respond to adversity and success, how we compete together through discipline and actions – in some ways, this was our best culture weekend thus far and has prepared us to compete down the stretch. I believe strongly in this group.”
LCSC got a big opener from Aidan Nagle, who had an RBI double in the first and a two-run triple in the second, as the Warriors built the big lead. Starter Dawson Day took a no-hitter into the sixth, before Daily walked, Matthew Ortiz singled and Brodie Marino got Tech on the board with a single to left.
Trailing 8-1 in the eighth, Daily hit his record-setting long ball, a blast over the center field wall, surpassing the mark he set last year, along with Ryson Mauricio in 2009.
The OIT bullpen allowed just one earned run in five-plus innings, including two shutout frames from Cruz Hamilton, fanning three batters.
Dylan Grogan had a strong start for the Owls in Game 2, working into the eighth inning, allowing just two earned runs and striking out four.
Tech erased a 3-1 deficit with a wild three-run seventh – loading the bases on a single and a pair of walks. Michael Tarakhchyan ripped a ball off the glove of LC third baseman Pu’ukana Sa for an RBI single to pull the Owls within a run, with Keelean tying the score with a walk. Daily followed with a high pop-up into shallow right – which, following an infield fly rule call, was dropped. The OIT runners tried to advance – with David Palmer scoring before an out was recorded at second to give the hosts a lead.
LC turned to Linscott, who had earlier tripled and had a ground-rule double. His eighth inning single was followed by a Luke White double to tie the score. In the 10th, Linscott lined his fourth homer of the season to left – becoming the first Warrior to hit for the cycle since 2018.
The finale marked the final home game for the 2022 OIT senior class – Keelean, Daily, Grogan, Tarakhchyan, Palmer, Mitchel Swanson, Spencer Dahlke, Jacob Miller and Alex Malcolm.
“We came a long way as a program in less than two years and this senior class has been instrumental in contributing to that progress,” Garsez said. “They have been bought in from the beginning and have not wavered – we must trust their leadership down the stretch.”
OIT heads to British Columbia for a four-game series this weekend, with the Owls clinching a conference tournament berth with a series win.
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Chico Invitational: OIT’s Nick McMillen and Jose Ignacio picked up individual victories for the men’s team.
McMillen won the 5,000 meters, with his time of 15:26.54 just ahead of teammate Jonas Hartline (15:31.18).
Ignacio continued his banner season in the javelin, with a mark of 194 feet, 1 inch.
On the track, Mark Hodge clocked a time of 11.26 seconds in the 100, Patrick Giraurdo had a time of 23.63 in the 200, and Joe Wilkinson finished the 1,500 in 4:27.62.
In the women’s meet, Alex Conley won the javelin with an NAIA automatic qualifying mark.
Conley claimed the title with a throw of 135 feet, 9 inches, a season-best. Teammate Aarika Brooks placed second in the event (130 feet, 1 inch).
Lily Lavine hit the Cascade Conference qualifying mark in the 100 (12.96 seconds), while clocking a season-best time in the 400 (59.02) and racing in the 200 (26.67).
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Mark Carpenter went 3 for 3 with two doubles and Owen Cheyne doubled and drove in three runs as host Henley High remained in a four-way tie for first place in the Skyline Conference baseball race with Saturday’s come-from-behind 7-6 victory in the second game of a doubleheader against Klamath Union.
The Hornets (12-5 overall, 4-2 Skyline), who won the opener 22-1, are tied with Hidden Valley, Mazama and Phoenix atop the conference.
The Hornets overcame a 6-4 deficit with three runs in the bottom of the sixth in the nightcap, with Carpenter scoring the go-ahead run. He also earned the victory with 1⅔ innings of perfect relief.
For KU (3-12, 1-5), Braden Dawson went 3 for 4 with a double and triple.
In the opener, Henley leadoff hitter Blayne Boersma went 4 for 5 with two triples, scored four times and drove in five runs. Dylan Tobias and Matt Douglas added four RBIs apiece. Carpenter allowed one hit over three scoreless innings for the victory.
Softball
Henley 15-21, Klamath Union 0-0: Elizabeth Powell went 3 for 3 with two home runs and six RBIs as the host Hornets (6-9, 6-0 Skyline) maintained a share of first place with Mazama and Phoenix with Saturday’s Game 2 vicory against the Pelicans (2-9, 0-6).
Henley scored 13 runs in the first inning and eight more in the second.
Lily Fitzpatrick also homered for Henley. Malia Mick went 3 for 4 with a double, scored three runs and had three RBIs and Ashlyn Sreniewski tripled in her only at-bat and drove in three runs.
Annie Campos and Natalie Hudson combined on three-inning no-hitter.
In the opener, Campos went 2 for 2 with three runs and three RBIs and didn’t allow a hit in three innings.
Mazama 16-25, Hidden Valley 13-1: Gracie Hamilton homered and drove in five runs as the Vikings (10-5, 6-0 Skyline) completed the sweep of the host Mustangs (2-10, 0-6) on Saturday.
Caelyn Davis went 3 for 5 with two doubles, scored four runs and drove in four. She also earned the victory, allowing one run on five hits in four innings.
Hamilton also homered and doubled in the opener, going 3 for 4 with three RBIs. Teammate Rhylee Utley was 3 for 5 and scored four times, as did Cambria Meyer. Davis pitched 2⅔ innings of scoreless relief, allowing just one hit, for the victory.
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Mazama High’s Savien Burk made quite a statement Saturday.
The senior set personal bests in winning both the boys 110- and 300-meter hurdles events at the 30th annual Coldwell Banker Invitational at Viking Field.
In the 110s, Burk barely beat out Redmond’s Logan Robertson and his Mazama teammate Blaine Jeffrey, finishing in 15.91 seconds. Robertson clocked a 15.97 and Jeffrey posted 16-flat.
Burk also narrowly beat out McQueen of Nevada’s Brock Jolley and Jeffery in the 300 with a time of 41.81.
“I knew I had good competition,” Burk said, “I know mentally I want to go out there and compete and come out with a 4A (state) championship.”
Burk’s teammate, Jeffery, said he felt he could have performed better.
“I had a slow start and didn’t compete the way I wanted to,” Jeffery said. “I’ll improve and get back on top.”
Mazama just missed finishing in the top three in the boys competition. McQueen won the title with 147 points, with Henley finishing second with 119, followed by Spanish Springs of Nevada (86) and Mazama (85.5).
McQueen’s Ashton Hayes was named the outstanding boys performer after winning the 100 (11.06) and 200 dashes (22.52).
Henley’s Andrew Edwards dominated the pole vault, tying his PR with a mark of 14 feet. The next closest competitor, Redmond’s Tyas Selby, vaulted 12-0.
“I felt good,” Edwards said. “I just put my mind in a state of emptiness.”
The Hornets’ Chris Janney won the 400 in a PR of 52.76, with teammates Victor Alonzo (52.91) and Logan Whitlock (53.79) finishing second and fourth, respectively, in career bests.
Other boys area athletes with podium finishes (top three) were: Mazama’s Brandon Gailey (2nd in 100 and 200) and Nate Tramp (3rd, discus); Henley’s Geovanni Cazarez (2nd, 800); Wyatt Fussell (3rd, 1,500); Hagen Greer (2nd, shot put); Eli Hayes (3rd, triple jump) and the Hornets’ 4x400 relay team of Janney, Austin Willmott, Whitlock and Alonzo, who placed second.
Summit defended its title in the girls competition, winning with 134 points. Spanish Springs was second with 89 and Henley took third with 85.
Spanish Springs’ Jolliette Johnson was the girls performer of the meet, winning the 100 (13.12) and the 400 (1:00.77) and taking third in the 200.
Henley’s Lanie Cox, Halle McKay, Dana Scott and Ryane Mattox cruised to a victory in the girls 4x400 relay in 4:16.15, with Caldera in second with time of 4:23.10.
Mazama’s Isabella Heaton won the javelin with a personal-best throw of 114-0, with North Lake’s Emily Murphy second in 107-5. Heaton also finished second in the 100.
Lost River’s Kieryn Ruda, the defending 2A state champion in the 300 hurdles, earned podium finishes in both hurdles events in season bests. She was third in both the 100 (18.00) and 300 hurdles (50.07).
“I feel a lot faster,” Ruda said. “I want to keep improving and get back there and win state again.”
Other girls area athletes with podium finishes were: Henley’s McKay (3rd, 400); Lakeview’s Elizabeth Goeres (3rd, 3,000); Lost River’s Jazmin Cobian (2nd, discus); and North Lake’s Murphy (2nd in high jump and third in the long jump).
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Police: 3-month-old California baby kidnapped by stranger
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly kidnapped a 3-month-old baby in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday.
The man walked into a home in San Jose around 1 p.m. and left with the child, Brandon Cuellar. Police released a video clip that shows the man walking down the sidewalk holding a baby carrier covered by a white blanket.
“The family does not recognize this suspect,” police said in a Twitter post.
The baby was taken while his grandmother was unloading groceries, San Jose Police Sgt. Christian Camarillo told NBC Bay Area. The child’s mother was at work at the time and the father is incarcerated.
“In that short amount of time, someone entered the apartment ... and left with the baby,” Camarillo said.
Authorities have not issued an Amber Alert because investigators do not have a vehicle description.
San Jose is a city in the South Bay Area, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from San Francisco.
Brandon was last seen wearing a white long-sleeved onesie with dinosaurs.
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OAHU (KITV)- The shut down of the Red Hill Well on Oahu could make the effect of this winter's drought on the water supply even worse. A Board of Water Supply spokesperson reports water production is already down 20% for Metro Honolulu and down 50% for the Aiea-Halawa area.
"Customers will not see an increase in their water bill," said Board of Water Supply Public Information Officer Kathleen Pahinui, For many this is better news that hitting a hole in one. The Ala Wai Golf Course may look like it's going through rough times, but really it's all part of the city of Honolulu's water conservation efforts at golf courses.
Two of the city's golf courses are only using reclaimed water right now. What looks like a fountain is actually an aerator keeping fish alive. Ala Wai Gof Course has gone to using only it's own well for irrigation. "We rely on our well water which has a lot of salt in the water. That's why when you see the golf course right now it has that yellowish look to the turf," said Honolulu Golf Course System Administrator Jordan Abe.
"We usually go out with our conservation team in July or August. We are going out right now because we are in a drought," said Pahinui.
Other businesses can also help. "We're happy to do a water audit, especially restaurants. We have commercial rebates on ice machines and dishwashers. We will come in and make sure you have water efficient fixtures," said Pahinui.
The city of Honolulu is encouraging park users to use less water at beach showers and sinks. The Board of Water supply is also recommending people take their vehicles to car washes, which know how to use less water than if you do it yourself. Dishwashers also use less water than doing it yourself. For better conservation, make sure washers and dishwashers have full loads. Don't let faucets actively run. "Don't water your lawn between 9 am and 5 pm because at that point you are only burning the grass. The sun is hot at that time and the water just really evaporates," said Pahinui.
A spokesperson for the Board of Water Supply says the organization is looking into digging 6 exploratory wells in an effort to prevent this sort of strain from happening in the future. But it could take 5 to 7 years, to get those fully completed.
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A resident receives a Covid-19 booster shot at a vaccine clinic inside Trinity Evangelic Lutheran Church in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S, on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2022.
KITV4 talked with a Department of Health spokesman who says something must be done now to reverse this trend. DOH spokesman Brooks Baehr wants to remind all in Hawaii that COVID-19 is not over, and that we are still living in a pandemic.
Many people in Hawaii are already vaccinated and boosted. And yet, the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase in the Islands.
“We’ve been heading in the wrong direction, we’re trending in the wrong direction. From a month ago, when it was 87 cases a day, to the latest showing we have 210 cases a day. We know there are more cases in the community than that data shows because people are testing at home and those home tests, those positive results are not reflected in our data,” says Brooks Baehr COVID-19 & Pandemic Response Administrative Assistant at the Hawai’i Department of Health.
Although cases are increasing in Hawaii, the DOH says there are ways to protect ourselves, include getting vaccinated, boosted and to make sure, if you are qualified, to get a second booster shot.
Baehr says that "anyone 65 and older should get the second booster. If indeed they got their first booster more than 4 months ago. Anyone 50 and older who has underlying medical conditions should go get that second booster. And if you are 12 and older and have a compromised immune system then you should strongly consider going out and getting that second booster.”
Factors to consider when getting that second booster include how likely are you to get sick if you are infected with Covid-19; how likely are you to get exposed to the virus on your job; and if you live with someone or care for someone who is likely to get very ill if you get the virus.
A recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that nearly a quarter million COVID deaths since last June could have been prevented if people had been vaccinated. Baehr adds, “Getting yourself up to date with your vaccines and then when the time is right, getting yourself boosted is very very important to protect yourself.”
To find out where you can get a booster shot, go to HawaiiCovid19.com, click on the vaccination button and find several options. Plus, Baehr, advises to wear a mask indoors, And if you feel sick stay home, quarantine and test yourself.
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KIHEI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- A warrant sweep at a Maui home last week led to three arrests as well as several disturbing finds including fentanyl powder, pills, and the implements to manufacture ghost guns.
Officers with the Maui Police Department’s (MPD) special response team executed the search warrant at a home in Kihei around 9:45 a.m. on April 21.
Among the drugs found, MPD says it recovered crystal meth, heroin, fentanyl powder, fentanyl pills, methadone powder, methadone pills, methadone hydrochloride, morphine sulfate pills, alprazolam pills, and buprenorphine hydrochloride pills.
Among the weapons found in the home, MPD says it found a large 3D printer and several self-manufactured weapons parts for pistols and AR-Platform rifles. Officers also found more than 100 rounds of live ammunition.
MPD said they also recovered $711 and drug paraphernalia “associated with the use and distribution of illegal narcotics.”
Officers arrested 29-year-old Kaelan Starmer, 59-year-old Alison Hethcote, and 36-year-old Kailani Rush. All three arrestees are facing multiple drug and weapons charges.
Bail for Starmer was set at $252,250. Bail for both Hethcote and Rush was set at $185,000.
Authorities have not said how they were led to the home nor did they say if they believe any self-manufactured weapons may have already been sold.
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A sex trafficking conviction nearly a decade in the making.
One of very few sex trafficking cases even prosecuted on Oahu.
But this time the victims, who were teenagers at the time of the crime, remained willing to testify against the man who sex trafficked them - for nine years. Until they could share what happened to a jury.
After numerous requests for delays, and going through half a dozen lawyers, Marquis Green finally had his day in court. He was accused of forcing two teenage girls into prostitution in 2013.
Nearly a decade later, the testimony from those women did him in.
"They went to court last week and stood up and said Mr. Greene was the person who did this to them and the jury convicted on all counts," said Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm.
Alm said that is not usually what happens in sex trafficking cases.
"The victims do not want to testify, and I don't blame them," added Alm.
Those who help sex trafficking victims said pimps hold a lot of power over the women, and there is a fear in testifying against them.
"This maybe the only person they feel like they have left. It is going to be hard to turn their back on that person. They may have feeling about that person. These guys work hard to get people to fall in love with them. There may also be violence, maybe they've threatened them or their family," said Shantae Williams, a Program Administrator for the Susannah Wesley Community Center.
The testimony of victims can be key to a conviction.
Because of victim's reluctance to testify in the past, Honolulu's Prosecutors hasn't brought many sex trafficking cases to court but Alm wants to.
He also hope this conviction will let those trafficked victims know there is help for them to get out. And remind them that they have the power to put their pimps behind bars.
Williams said victims would like to see accused sex traffickers stay behind bars before going to court. Which might make more women willing to testify against their pimps.
"If there can be higher bails set where they can't get out. These guys make a lot of money. A victim is going to bring in $1,000 a night, that is $30,000 a month off one victim. Bail needs to be high," added Williams.
Green will be sentenced in July, not only for the two promoting prostitution charges but also for assault and sexual assault on one of the victims.
Alms adds he hopes Green's sentences are served one after the other -- which could serve as a deterrent to other sex traffickers
"A consecutive sentence would send the message that if you are ever caught - you will spend decades in prison," added Alm.
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There's a growing trend on Maui -- people are leasing out cars and campers for visitors to stay in.
Maui County Councilmember Tamara Paltin reported many of the owners are people who recently moved to the island and want to supplement their income because of the high cost of living.
State law dictates people are not allowed to sleep in their cars in public areas where camping is not permitted, but Paltin pointed out, "it's not widely enforced because we have such a homeless problem and folks don't have a place to go, so we're not trying to criminalize homelessness."
Scot Johnson, owner of Maui Van Camping, blamed the lack of affordable housing as the root of the problem.
"It's the homeless people in vans that are taking all the parking spots," Johnson said. "The number of people that own and operate businesses like mine, is very small."
Paltin added that many residents have been complaining about rental campers clogging up beaches and parking lots, so the council proposed to restrict those vehicles to designated camping areas.
Another idea, Paltin shared, is to eventually establish a permit process to cap the number of rental campers. She acknowledged, however, there are limited camping zones on the island.
Johnson considers the proposal an infringement on his "personal freedoms."
"Really, we don't need any more laws on the books," Johnson added.
Paltin pointed out the measure is aimed at freeing up space for locals.
"I do remember when I was really little, like people were excited for sleeping in their car, or trying to camp all these places and to see tourists being given free rein is kind of like holy cow," Paltin said.
The proposal is a part of a broader bill to cap visitor accommodations, which the county council voted on Friday to send to the Maui County Planning Commission for further consideration.
'A'ali'i is a reporter with KITV. He was born and raised on the island of Maui and graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Journalism.
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| 2022-04-26T05:33:33Z
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Beckley’s Olivia Ziolkowski signs with Marshall women’s basketball
Published: Apr. 26, 2022 at 1:29 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - Woodrow Wilson standout, Olivia Ziolkowski, is headed to play Division I college basketball. She put pen to paper on Monday and will be headed to Huntington to join the women’s basketball team at Marshall.
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| 2022-04-26T06:47:19Z
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Cavs top Mavs in Monday baseball match up
Published: Apr. 26, 2022 at 1:40 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LINDSIDE, W.Va. (WVVA) - The James Monroe baseball team hosted Greenbrier West on Monday.
The Cavaliers grabbed a significant lead early, up 9-1 through the top of the 4th inning.
While the Mavericks pulled together a six-run rally in the final four innings, Greenbrier West closed the door: 9-7.
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| 2022-04-26T06:47:25Z
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Parents sue after death of teen from Florida drop-tower ride
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The parents of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from a 430-foot (131-meter) drop-tower ride in central Florida’s tourist district sued its owner, manufacturer and landlord on Monday, claiming they were negligent and failed to provide a safe amusement ride.
The parents of Tyre Sampson said in the lawsuit filed in state court in Orlando that the defendants failed to warn their 6-foot-2-inch (188-centimeter), 380-pound (172-kilogram) son about the risks of someone of his size going on the ride and didn’t provide an appropriate restraint system on the ride.
While most free-fall rides have a shoulder harness and a seatbelt, the Orlando Free Fall ride had only an over-the-shoulder harness. Adding seatbelts to the ride’s 30 seats would have cost $660, the lawsuit said.
At the time of the accident last month, Sampson was on spring break, visiting from the St. Louis area.
“The defendants in Tyre’s case showed negligence in a multitude of ways,” said attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Sampson’s family. “From the ride and seat manufacturers and the installer to the owners and operators, the defendants had more than enough chances to enact safeguards, such as seatbelts, that could have prevented Tyre’s death.”
An attorney for the ride’s owner, Orlando Slingshot, said the company was continuing to cooperate with state investigators into what happened. “We reiterate that all protocols, procedures and safety measures provided by the manufacturer of the ride were followed,” attorney Trevor Arnold said in an emailed statement.
A spokesman for the landlord, ICON Park, didn’t comment immediately on the lawsuit.
Last week, an initial report by outside engineers hired by the Florida Department of Agriculture said that sensors on the ride had been adjusted manually to double the size of the opening for restraints on two seats, resulting in Sampson not being properly secured before he slipped out and fell to his death.
The Orlando Free Fall ride, which is taller than the Statue of Liberty, didn’t experience any electrical or mechanical failures, the report said.
The report said there were many other “potential contributions” to the accident and that a full review of the ride’s design and operations was needed.
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| 2022-04-26T06:47:32Z
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - Hawaiian Airlines launched a statewide hiring campaign this week for hundreds of open airport and operational positions to support the company’s growth as we get closer to the busy summer months.
The airline is recruiting more than 600 positions companywide.
The company is also seeking Honolulu-based pilots and flight attendants as it continues to expand return to pre-pandemic measures. Locally and nationwide, there has been a pilot shortage and to accommodate Hawaiian Airlines has significantly increased wages for pilots and are offering a 10,000 sign on bonus.
“People were surprised by how quickly air traffic rebounded after some of the Covid numbers dropped and people started choosing to go to Hawaii. It’s going to take a lot of husting from our local airlines to have a sufficient number of pilots this season,” said Peter Forman, aviation expert.
Aviation expert Peter Forman says many pilots were lost during the pandemic because of vaccine mandates and many permanently relocated to the mainland.
“The state of Hawaii is not training nearly as many pilots as before and that’s the best source for pilots at Hawaiian Airlines because those pilots want to live on Hawaii. The best option is to focus on people who grew up in Hawaii,” said Forman.
Hawaiian Airlines announced today they will be offering free high-speed Starlink internet connectivity on their flights. Experts say this will be a game changer this flying season.
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| 2022-04-26T07:47:20Z
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HILO (KITV4) - Hawaii Island police have charged 35-year-old Ammon Kaipo Spencer Stanley with murder following the discovery of a badly burned body within a vehicle in Puna on Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday, Stanley, of Kurtistown, was identified as a suspect hours after Puna police officers received information about a vehicle that had been set on fire with a body inside. Responding officers located the vehicle with the charred remains in the bushes approximately 100 feet off the roadway. Detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigation Section responded to the scene to continue the investigation.
Hours later, following leads, Stanley was located at a residence on 35th Avenue in Kurtistown where he was arrested for second degree murder.
During the course of the investigation, detectives determined that the victim had been shot while seated within his vehicle on the side of the road on 35th Avenue.
Police also identified a 36-year woman that had also been shot while seated within the vehicle. After the incident she managed to escape to safety. Stanley reportedly drove the victim’s vehicle, with the deceased victim inside, to Beach Road where it was set on fire.
The female victim later received treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
The deceased victim’s remains were transported to the Hilo Medical Center for official pronouncement of death. The victim’s name is being withheld pending positive identification and notification of next of kin.
An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday, April 26, to determine the exact cause of death.
Police are asking anyone with information on this incident to contact Detective John Balberde at 808-961-2386 or email him, or the police department’s non-emergency number at 808-935-3311. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous may call the island-wide Crime Stoppers number at 961-8300 and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000.00.
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| 2022-04-26T07:47:26Z
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Mom stabs, kills pit bull mauling her 1-year-old daughter
PICO RIVERA, Calif. (Gray News) - A 1-year-old girl from California is recovering after she was attacked by two family dogs. The girl’s mother fatally stabbed one of the dogs while trying to save her daughter.
Family members say the Sunday night attack on 1-year-old Ruby Ann Cervantes by two blue nose pit bulls lasted no more than three or four minutes, KNBC reports. The girl’s mother, grandmother and aunt were all injured trying to stop the attack.
“He [The dog] had her by the leg, and I had to get his teeth off of her,” said Margaret Morales, Ruby’s grandmother, as reported by KTLA. “He bit my hand, and my hand’s pretty severely cut open.”
Jaime Morales, Ruby’s mother, eventually grabbed a knife and fatally stabbed one of the dogs.
“It was either him or my daughter, so I chose my daughter. I did whatever I had to do to protect my daughter,” Jaime Morales told KNBC.
Ruby was bitten in the leg, ankle and shoulder, according to her grandmother. She received several stitches and underwent two surgeries, including one for a fractured hip. She was expected to be placed in the intensive care unit after the surgeries.
The other three victims all required stitches, as well, KCOP reports. Jaime Morales was bitten in the face and arm while protecting her daughter.
“I did what I had to do because he [the dog] wouldn’t let go,” she said. “I feel really bad, but I had to. I’m pretty sure anyone would have done it.”
The two pit bulls, both 3 years old, were owned by Margaret Morales, according to KNBC. They were normally outside dogs but were inside at the time of the attack after receiving baths. Family members say the dogs had not been aggressive prior to the incident.
The second dog involved in the attack was taken away by animal control and will be euthanized.
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| 2022-04-26T08:22:55Z
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Top Russian diplomat warns Ukraine against provoking WWIII
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia’s top diplomat warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict “should not be underestimated” as his country unleashed attacks against rail and fuel installations far from the front lines of Moscow’s new eastern offensive.
Meanwhile, the British Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Russian forces had taken the Ukrainian city of Kreminna in the Luhansk region after days of street-to-street fighting.
“The city of Kreminna has reportedly fallen and heavy fighting is reported south of Izium as Russian forces attempt to advance towards the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk from the north and east,” the British military said in a tweet. It did not say how it knew the city, 575 kilometers (355 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, had fallen. The Ukrainian government did not immediately comment.
Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian forces were shelling Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, as they fought to take full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which comprise the Donbas in Ukraine’s industrial heartland, and establish a land corridor to Crimea.
In the area of Velyka Oleksandrivka, a village in the Kherson region largely controlled by Russians, Ukrainian forces destroyed an ammunition depot and “eliminated” more than 70 Russian troops, the General Staff said.
The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said on the messaging app Telegram that the Russians had shelled civilians 17 times over the previous 24 hours, with the cities of Popasna, Lysychansk and Girske suffering the most.
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Four people died and nine more were wounded on Monday in the Russian shelling of the Donetsk region, its governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram. He said a 9-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were among those killed.
The U.S. has been rushing more weaponry to Ukraine and said the assistance from Western allies is making a difference in the 2-month-old war.
“Russia is failing. Ukraine is succeeding,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Monday after he and the U.S. secretary of defense made a bold visit to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Blinken said Washington approved a $165 million sale of ammunition — non-U.S. ammo, mainly if not entirely for Ukraine’s Soviet-era weapons — and will also provide more than $300 million in financing to buy more supplies.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went further, saying the U.S. wants to see Ukraine remain a sovereign, democratic country, but also wants “to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”
Austin’s remarks appeared to represent a shift in U.S. strategic goals since earlier Washington said the goal of American military aid was to help Ukraine win and to defend Ukraine’s NATO neighbors against Russian threats.
In an apparent response to Austin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia has “a feeling that the West wants Ukraine to continue to fight and, as it seems to them, wear out, exhaust the Russian army and the Russian military industrial war complex. This is an illusion.”
Weapons supplied by Western countries “will be a legitimate target,” said Lavrov, who accused Ukrainian leaders of provoking Russia by asking NATO to become involved in the conflict. NATO forces are “pouring oil on the fire,” Lavrov said, according to a transcript on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website.
“Everyone is reciting incantations that in no case can we allow World War III,” he said in a Russian television interview.
Lavrov said he would not want to see risks of a nuclear confrontation “artificially inflated now, when the risks are rather significant.”
“The danger is serious,” he said. “It is real. It should not be underestimated.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter that Lavrov’s comments underscore Ukraine’s need for Western help: “Russia loses last hope to scare the world off supporting Ukraine. Thus the talk of a ‘real’ danger of WWIII. This only means Moscow senses defeat in Ukraine.”
When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, its apparent goal was to seize Kyiv, the capital. But the Ukrainians, helped by Western weapons, forced President Vladimir Putin’s troops to retreat.
Moscow now says its goal is to take the Donbas, the mostly Russian-speaking industrial region in eastern Ukraine, where residents are struggling to survive without many of the basics, collecting rainwater for cleaning and washing up and fervently hoping for an end to the fighting.
“When you open a plastic bottle and it makes a crackling sound, you are worried at once (thinking that it’s an explosion) because of all those blasts. Anything that is happening, any noise, if our neighbours bang the door, a metal door, you are startled,” said Andriy Cheromushkin, a resident of Toretsk, a small city south of Kramatorsk.
“It’s bad. Very bad. Hopeless,” he said. “You feel so helpless that you don’t know what you should do or shouldn’t do. Because if you want to do something, you need some money; and there is no money now.”
On Monday, Russia was focusing its firepower beyond the Donbas, with missiles and warplanes striking far behind the front lines to try to thwart Ukrainian supply efforts.
Five railroad stations in central and western Ukraine were hit, and one worker was killed, said Oleksandr Kamyshin, head of Ukraine’s state railway. Missiles struck Lviv, the western city near the Polish border jammed by Ukrainians fleeing their home.
Ukrainian authorities said at least five people were killed by Russian strikes in the central Vynnytsia region.
Russia also destroyed an oil refinery and fuel depots in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said. In all, Russian warplanes destroyed 56 Ukrainian targets, he said.
The strikes on fuel depots are meant to deplete vital Ukrainian war resources. Strikes against rail targets, both disrupt supply lines and intimidate people trying to use the railways to flee the fighting, said Philip Breedlove, a retired U.S. general who was NATO’s top commander from 2013- 2016.
An estimated 2,000 Ukrainian troops holed up in a steel plant in the strategic southern port city of Mariupol are tying down Russian forces, apparently preventing them from joining the offensive elsewhere in the Donbas. Over the weekend, Russian forces launched new airstrikes on the Azovstal plant to try to dislodge the holdouts.
Some 1,000 civilians were also said to be taking shelter at the steelworks.
The city council and mayor of Mariupol said a new mass grave was identified about 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the city. Mayor Vadym Boychenko said authorities were trying to estimate the number of victims. It was at least the third new mass grave discovered in Russian-controlled areas near Mariupol in the last week.
Mariupol has been gutted by bombardment and fierce street fighting over the past two months. Russia’s capture of the city would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and give Moscow a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.
In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was maintaining its resistance to “make the occupiers’ stay in our land even more intolerable,” while Russia drains its resources.
Britain said it believes 15,000 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said 25% of the Russian combat units sent to Ukraine “have been rendered not combat effective.”
Ukrainian officials have said about 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed as of mid-April.
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Gambrell reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press journalist Yuras Karmanau in Lviv and AP staff around the world contributed to this report.
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| 2022-04-26T09:53:31Z
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OAHU (KITV)- The shut down of the Red Hill Well on Oahu could make the effect of this winter's drought on the water supply even worse. A Board of Water Supply spokesperson reports water production is already down 20% for Metro Honolulu and down 50% for the Aiea-Halawa area.
"Customers will not see an increase in their water bill," said Board of Water Supply Public Information Officer Kathleen Pahinui. For many this is better news that hitting a hole in one. The Ala Wai Golf Course may look like it's going through rough times, but really it's all part of the city of Honolulu's water conservation efforts at golf courses.
Two of the city's golf courses are only using reclaimed water right now. What looks like a fountain is actually an aerator keeping fish alive. Ala Wai Gof Course has gone to using only it's own well for irrigation. "We rely on our well water which has a lot of salt in the water. That's why when you see the golf course right now it has that yellowish look to the turf," said Honolulu Golf Course System Administrator Jordan Abe.
"We usually go out with our conservation team in July or August. We are going out right now because we are in a drought," said Pahinui.
Other businesses can also help. "We're happy to do a water audit, especially restaurants. We have commercial rebates on ice machines and dishwashers. We will come in and make sure you have water efficient fixtures," said Pahinui.
The city of Honolulu is encouraging park users to use less water at beach showers and sinks. The Board of Water supply is also recommending people take their vehicles to car washes, which know how to use less water than if you do it yourself. Dishwashers also use less water than doing it yourself. For better conservation, make sure washers and dishwashers have full loads. Don't let faucets actively run. "Don't water your lawn between 9 am and 5 pm because at that point you are only burning the grass. The sun is hot at that time and the water just really evaporates," said Pahinui.
A spokesperson for the Board of Water Supply says the organization is looking into digging 6 exploratory wells in an effort to prevent this sort of strain from happening in the future. But it could take 5 to 7 years, to get those fully completed.
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| 2022-04-26T10:00:58Z
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - Hawaiian Airlines launched a statewide hiring campaign this week for hundreds of open airport and operational positions to support the company’s growth as we get closer to the busy summer months.
The airline is recruiting more than 600 positions companywide.
The company is also seeking Honolulu-based pilots and flight attendants as it continues to expand return to pre-pandemic measures. Locally and nationwide, there has been a pilot shortage and to accommodate Hawaiian Airlines has significantly increased wages for pilots and are offering a 10,000 sign on bonus.
“People were surprised by how quickly air traffic rebounded after some of the Covid numbers dropped and people started choosing to go to Hawaii. It’s going to take a lot of husting from our local airlines to have a sufficient number of pilots this season,” said Peter Forman, aviation expert.
Aviation expert Peter Forman says many pilots were lost during the pandemic because of vaccine mandates and many permanently relocated to the mainland.
“The state of Hawaii is not training nearly as many pilots as before and that’s the best source for pilots at Hawaiian Airlines because those pilots want to live on Hawaii. The best option is to focus on people who grew up in Hawaii,” said Forman.
Hawaiian Airlines announced today they will be offering free high-speed Starlink internet connectivity on their flights. Experts say this will be a game changer this flying season.
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| 2022-04-26T10:01:04Z
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| 2022-04-26T10:01:10Z
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2 children, woman killed by gunman at Russian kindergarten
Published: Apr. 26, 2022 at 7:21 AM EDT|Updated: moments ago
MOSCOW (AP) — A lawmaker says a gunman has killed two children and a staff member at a kindergarten in Russia.
Citing “preliminary information,” federal lawmaker and former governor Sergei Morozov wrote on the VK social network that a man had entered the kindergarten in the town of Veshkayma in central Russia and shot a female staff member and children, before shooting himself.
Local health officials say one other staff member was wounded.
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| 2022-04-26T11:26:26Z
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Biden administration expands availability of COVID antiviral pill
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, as it seeks to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus.
Paxlovid, produced by Pfizer, was first approved in December. Supply of the regimen was initially very limited, but as COVID-19 cases across the country have fallen and manufacturing has increased it is now far more abundant. The White House is now moving to raise awareness of the pill and taking steps to make it easier to access.
The White House said Tuesday it is stepping up outreach to doctors, letting them know that they shouldn’t think twice about prescribing the pill to eligible patients. It is also announcing that the drug will now be distributed directly to pharmacies, in addition to existing distribution channels run by states. That is expected to boost the number of sites from 20,000 to more than 30,000 next week and eventually to 40,000 locations.
The administration believes the pharmacy channel, which it used to boost availability of COVID-19 vaccines more than a year ago, will similarly make the antiviral pills more available to people.
Paxlovid, when administered within five days of symptoms appearing, has been proven to bring about a 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease. About 350 Americans are now dying each day from the coronavirus, down from more than 2,600 during the height of the omicron wave earlier this year.
The U.S. has ordered enough supply of the pills for 20 million people, which is estimated to last for several more months. The administration has warned that subsequent deliveries are dependent on Congress approving additional COVID-19 response funding.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s drug for adults and children age 12 or older with a positive COVID-19 test and early symptoms who face the highest risk of severe outcomes. That includes older people and those with conditions like obesity and heart disease, though the drug is not recommended for patients with severe kidney or liver problems.
The administration is also working to expand the number of test-to-treat sites that provide a one-stop shop for those with COVID-19 to get tested for the virus, consult with a medical professional if they’re positive and fill a prescription for Paxlovid on site. Currently there are 2,200 locations nationwide, and the administration hopes support from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and pharmacy companies will enable more sites to come online in the coming weeks.
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Biden pardons former Secret Service agent and 2 others
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has granted the first three pardons of his term, providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent convicted of federal bribery charges that he tried to sell a copy of an agency file and to two people who were convicted on drug-related charges but went on to become pillars in their communities.
The Democratic president also commuted the sentences of 75 others for nonviolent, drug-related convictions. The White House announced the clemencies Tuesday as it launched a series of job training and reentry programs for those in prison or recently released.
Many of those who received commutations have been serving their sentences on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several were serving lengthy sentences and would have received lesser terms had they been convicted today for the same offenses as a result of the 2018 bipartisan sentencing reform ushered into law by the Trump administration.
“America is a nation of laws and second chances, redemption, and rehabilitation,” Biden said in a statement announcing the clemencies. “Elected officials on both sides of the aisle, faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and law enforcement leaders agree that our criminal justice system can and should reflect these core values that enable safer and stronger communities.”
Those granted pardons are:
— Abraham Bolden Sr., 86, the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on a presidential detail. In 1964, Bolden, who served on President John F. Kennedy’s detail, faced federal bribery charges that he attempted to sell a copy of a Secret Service file. His first trial ended in a hung jury.
Following his conviction in a second trial, key witnesses admitted lying at the prosecutor’s request. Bolden, of Chicago, was denied a retrial and served several years in federal prison. Bolden has maintained his innocence and wrote a book in which he argued he was targeted for speaking out against racist and unprofessional behavior in the Secret Service.
— Betty Jo Bogans, 51, was convicted in 1998 of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in Texas after attempting to transport drugs for her boyfriend and his accomplice. Bogans, a single mother with no prior record, received a seven-year sentence. In the years since her release from prison, Bogans has held consistent employment, even while undergoing cancer treatment, and has raised a son.
— Dexter Jackson , 52, of Athens, Georgia, was convicted in 2002 for using his pool hall to facilitate the trafficking of marijuana. Jackson pleaded guilty and acknowledged he allowed his business to be used by marijuana dealers.
After Jackson was released from prison, he converted his business into a cellphone repair service that employs local high school students through a program that provides young adults with work experience. Jackson has built and renovated homes in his community, which has a shortage of affordable housing.
Civil rights and criminal justice reform groups have pushed the White House to commute sentences and work harder to reduce disparities in the criminal justice system. Biden’s grants of clemency also come as the administration has faced congressional scrutiny over misconduct and the treatment of inmates in the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons, which is responsible for inmates serving sentences of home confinement.
Biden, as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, helped shepherd through the 1994 crime bill that many criminal justice experts say contributed to harsh sentences and mass incarceration of Black people.
During his 2020 White House run, Biden vowed to reduce the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. and called for nonviolent drug offenders to be diverted to drug courts and treatment.
He also has pushed for better training for law enforcement and called for criminal justice system changes to address disparities that have led to minorities and the poor making up a disproportionate share of the nation’s incarcerated population.
Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, granted 143 pardons and clemency to 237 during his four years in office.
Trump sought the advice of prison reform advocate Alice Johnson, a Black woman whose life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense he commuted in 2018. He was also lobbied by celebrity Kim Kardashian as well as advisers inside the White House, including daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as he weighed applications for clemency.
The Republican used his pardon authority to help several political friends and allies, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Republican operative Roger Stone and Charles Kushner, the father-in-law of Ivanka Trump.
Among Trump’s final acts as president was pardoning his former chief strategist Steve Bannon and Al Pirro, the husband of Fox News host and Trump ally Jeanine Pirro.
Prosecutors alleged that Bannon, who had yet to stand trial when he was pardoned, had duped thousands of donors who believed their money would be used to fulfill Trump’s chief campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border. Instead, Bannon allegedly diverted more than $1 million, paying a salary to one campaign official and personal expenses for himself. Pirro was convicted in 2000 on tax charges.
With the slate of pardons and commutations announced Tuesday, Biden has issued more grants of clemency than any of the previous five presidents at this point in their terms, according to the White House.
In addition to the grants of clemency, Biden announced several new initiatives that are meant to help formerly incarcerated people gain employment — an issue that his administration is driving home as key to lowering crime rates and preventing recidivism.
The Labor Department is directing $140 million toward programs that offer job training, pre-apprenticeship programs, digital literacy training and pre-release and post-release career counseling and more for youth and incarcerated adults.
The $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by Congress last year includes a trio of grant programs that the administration says promote hiring of formerly incarcerated individuals. And the Labor and Justice Departments announced on Tuesday a collaborative plan to provide $145 million over the next year on job skills training as well as individualized employment and reentry plans for people serving time in the Bureau of Prisons.
Biden said the new initiatives are vital to helping the more than 600,000 people released from prison each year get on stable ground.
“Helping those who served their time return to their families and become contributing members of their communities is one of the most effective ways to reduce recidivism and decrease crime,” Biden said.
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Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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Can Musk deliver on his vision for Twitter? Questions remain
(AP) - Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands to be the next owner of Twitter, having pledged roughly $44 billion to buy the social platform and take it private. Assuming that happens, next up on his agenda will be planning how to fulfill his promises to develop new Twitter features, open its algorithm to public inspection and defeat “spambots” on the service that mimic real users.
He’ll also need to have the company start “authenticating all humans,” as he described it in a statement quoted in the Monday press release announcing the acquisition. What exactly Musk meant by the phrase remains unclear.
So does the question of whether his ideas are technologically possible and how we’ll know if these changes would benefit users or serve some other purpose.
Experts who have studied content moderation and researched Twitter for years have expressed doubt that Musk knows exactly what he is getting into. After all, there are plenty of fledgling examples of “free speech” focused platforms launched in the past few years as Twitter antidotes, largely by conservatives unhappy with the company’s crackdowns on hate, harassment and misinformation. Many have struggled to deal with toxic content, and at least one has been cut off by its own technology providers in protest.
“This move just shows how effective (moderation features) have been to annoy those in power,” said Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame. “I would be worried as to how this would change Twitter’s values.”
The fact that no other bidders emerged in public before Musk’s deal was a sign that other would-be acquirers might find Twitter too difficult to improve, said Third Bridge analyst Scott Kessler.
“This platform is pretty much the same one we’ve had over the last decade or so,” Kessler said. “You’ve had a lot of smart people trying to figure out what they should do, and they’ve had trouble. It’s probably going to be tough to make a lot of headway.”
Musk received some effusive, if highly abstract, praise from an unexpected quarter — Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, who praised Musk’s decision to take Twitter “back from Wall Street” and tweeted that he trusts Musk’s mission to “extend the light of consciousness” — a reference to Dorsey’s notion that “Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness.”
But others familiar with Twitter say they’re still dismayed at Musk’s successful bid for the company.
“Twitter is going to let a man-child essentially take over their platform,” said Leslie Miley, a former Twitter employee who has also worked for Google and Apple. Miley, who was the only Black engineer at Twitter in a leadership position when he left the company in 2015, echoed doubts about Musk’s grasp of the platform’s complexities.
“I am not sure if Elon knows what he is getting,” Miley said. “He may just find that having Twitter is a lot different than wanting Twitter.”
The more hands-off approach to content moderation that Musk envisions has many users concerned that the platform will become more of a haven for disinformation, hate speech and bullying, something it has worked hard in recent years to mitigate. Wall Street analysts said if he goes too far, it could also alienate advertisers.
Shares of Twitter Inc. rose more than 5% Monday to $51.70 per share. On April 14, Musk announced an offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share. While the stock is up sharply since Musk made his offer, it is well below the high of $77 per share it reached in February 2021.
Musk has described himself as a “free-speech absolutist” but is also known for blocking or disparaging other Twitter users who question or disagree with him.
In recent weeks, he has proposed relaxing Twitter content restrictions — such as the rules that suspended former President Donald Trump’s account — while ridding the platform of fake “spambot” accounts and shifting away from advertising as its primary revenue model. Musk believes he can increase revenue through subscriptions that give paying customers a better experience — possibly even an ad-free version of Twitter.
Asked during a recent TED interview if there are any limits to his notion of “free speech,” Musk said Twitter would abide by national laws that restrict speech around the world. Beyond that, he said, he’d be “very reluctant” to delete posts or permanently banning users who violate the company’s rules.
It won’t be perfect, Musk added, “but I think we want it to really have the perception and reality that speech is as free as reasonably possible.”
After the deal was announced, the NAACP released a statement urging Musk not to allow Trump, the 45th president, back onto the platform.
“Do not allow 45 to return to the platform,” the civil rights organization said in a statement. “Do not allow Twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech or falsehoods that subvert our democracy.”
As both candidate and president, Trump made Twitter a powerful megaphone for speaking directly to the public, often using incendiary and divisive language on hot-button issues. He was permanently banned from the service in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.
“If Musk either fires or drives away the team at Twitter that’s committed to keeping it clean and making it less hate-filled, he’ll see an immediate drop in user activity,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. “I think he’s going to find pretty fast that inviting the bigots back in is bad for business.”
Some users said Monday that they were planning to quit the platform if Musk took it over. To which he responded on Twitter: “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
While Twitter’s user base of more than 200 million remains much smaller than those of rivals such as Facebook and TikTok, the service is popular with celebrities, world leaders, journalists and intellectuals. Musk himself is a prolific tweeter with a following that rivals several pop stars in the ranks of the most popular accounts.
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Krisher reported from Detroit. O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. AP Business Writers Marcy Gordon in Washington, Barbara Ortutay in Oakland, Calif., and Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report.
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Cold front to bring rain and cooler temperatures today
High temperatures will top off in the 50s and low 60s today
We are dry early this morning but some rain will move in later this morning and into the afternoon hours as a cold front push through. The rain should remain light to moderate for most, however, we can’t rule out some locally heavy downpours at times. Temperatures are in the 50s and 60s this morning but most will hover in the 50s this afternoon.
Drier conditions are expected overnight as we will see decreasing clouds. Temperatures will be colder than we have been the past several nights getting down into the 30s and low 40s.
Mainly sunny skies are on tap for tomorrow with high temperatures in the 50s and possibly the low 60s for some. We will be windy behind this cold front with winds out of the northwest at 15-25 mph gusting over 30 mph at times. That will make it feel cooler throughout the day.
The winds will die down heading into the end of the week. We will see mainly sunny to partly cloudy skies on Thursday and Friday. Temperatures will top off in the 50s and 60s on both days.
We will be warmer with highs in the 60s and 70s over the weekend, however, we do look to become unsettled once again as another cold front approaches the area. Make sure to stay tuned and catch the latest on WVVA.
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MAKAHA-- Balloons and banners lined Farrington highway at sundown.
Kuulei Lincoln, a friend of Michelle McPeek for over 15 years, told KITV she had just spoken to McPeek's younger teenage son on the phone.
"He just talked to us. And I sent my love and condolences and told them if they ever need anything just call me. He said ok and that he loves me."
That love and support in the community was a refrain at the roadside memorial here on Farrington Highway where Michelle McPeek died allegedly at the hands of her eldest son, 19 year old Joshua.
One close friend told KITV addiction had been in a factor in family life. She revealed that Joshua had recently completed the Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge.
"I feel like you got to go deeper than that. Like more therapy. These kids can do Youth Challenge but they got to get more therapy," Evanna Graham told KITV.
The gathering ended by the water at Keaau Beach Park where friends shared how they are remembering McPeek.
"Friendly. Loving. In good spirit, was very friendly lovable. Willing to give her last dollar to anyone," Lincoln said.
Co-workers from Waianae Store gathered, some who had only known Michelle McPeek through the last year.
"When I first started Waianae store, she was the friend who told me to apply, nobody knew what was going on in her life. She was always smiling," Vika Milo said.
"She's good people. Take care of your kids and anybody else's kids around," Graham added.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Jeremy Lee joined KITV after over a decade & a half in broadcast news from coast to coast on the mainland. Jeremy most recently traveled the country documenting protests & civil unrest.
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Actor Cary Elwes bitten by rattlesnake
(Gray News) - Though it wasn’t a “Rodent of Unusual Size,” or ROUS, it still delivered a fearsome bite.
Actor Cary Elwes said he was hospitalized after he was bitten by rattlesnake, he revealed in an Instagram post showing his injured finger.
Warning: The wounded finger looks pretty nasty.
Elwes is best known for his work in the ‘80s movie “The Princess Bride,” which included the oversized rodents he referenced in his post.
Elwes said he was “grateful to the staff of Malibu Urgent Care, LA County Fire Dept. and the staff and medical professionals at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for their great care.”
The bite happened Saturday as Elwes was working in the yard of his Malibu home, KABC reported.
Elwes said he’s “recovering well.”
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Justices hear fight over asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is seeking the Supreme Court’s go-ahead to end a controversial Trump-era immigration program that forces some people seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico for their hearings.
The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday in the administration’s appeal of lower-court rulings that required immigration officials to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that the administration “has twice determined is not in the interests of the United States,” according to court filings.
Texas and Missouri, which sued to keep the program in place, said it has helped reduce the flow of people into the U.S. at the southern border. “Many raise meritless immigration claims, including asylum claims, in the hope that they will be released into the United States,” the states told the Supreme Court in a filing.
About 70,000 people were enrolled in the program, formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols, after President Donald Trump launched it in 2019 and made it a centerpiece of efforts to deter asylum-seekers.
President Joe Biden suspended it on his first day in office and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended it in June 2021. In October, DHS produced additional justifications for the policy’s demise, to no avail in the courts.
The program resumed in December, but barely 3,000 migrants had enrolled by the end of March, during a period when authorities stopped migrants about 700,000 times at the border.
The heart of the legal fight is whether the program is discretionary and can be ended, as the administration argues, or is essentially the only way to comply with what the states say is a congressional command not to release the immigrants at issue in the case into the United States.
Without adequate detention facilities in the U.S., Texas and Missouri argue that the administration’s only option is to make the immigrants wait in Mexico until their asylum hearings.
The two sides separately disagree about whether the way the administration went about ending the policy complies with a federal law that compels agencies to follow rules and spell out reasons for their actions.
Those being forced to wait in Mexico widely say they are terrified in dangerous Mexican border cities and find it very hard to find lawyers to handle their asylum hearings.
Democratic-led states and progressive groups are on the administration’s side. Republican-led states and conservative groups have sided with Texas and Missouri. Those include the America First Legal Foundation, led by former Trump aides Stephen Miller and Mark Meadows.
As the court is weighing the asylum policy, the administration is expected to end another key Trump-era border policy that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. It allows authorities to expel migrants without a chance to seek asylum. The decision to end Title 42 authority, named for a 1944 public health law, on May 23 is being legally challenged by 22 states and faces growing division within Biden’s Democratic Party.
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Officials: Nearly 200 cases of mystery liver disease
STOCKHOLM (AP) — European health officials said Tuesday that they have not found a link between cases of a mysterious liver disease outbreak in children.
To date 190 cases of the hepatitis of unknown origin have been reported, 140 of them in Europe.
“So far there is no connection between the cases and no association to travel,” said Andrea Ammon, director at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm.
She said the disease appears in previously healthy children, with cases reported across the European continent, in Israel and in the United States.
Ammon said some cases have led to acute liver failure that has required a transplant.
On Saturday, the World Health Organization said that at least one death has been reported in connection the outbreak. The U.N. health agency said the cases were reported in children aged between 1 month and 16 years. WHO didn’t say in which country the death occurred.
Experts say the cases may be linked to a virus commonly associated with colds, but research is continuing.
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KKK flyers found in Atlanta neighborhood
ATLANTA (WGCL/Gray News) - The Atlanta Police Department is voicing concerns over some KKK flyers found by residents in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood.
Police said they were reportedly discovered in the Zone 1 area along Paul Avenue NW, Spink Street NW, and Edwards Drive NW.
The department said the flyers “appear to be distributed by a group or organization who depict themselves as the ‘Glory Knights of the Klu Klux Klan.’ The flyer appears to contain insensitive messaging.”
Police said they are investigating “to determine if this act was an attempt to intimidate the community.”
The Office of the Attorney General told WGCL that as soon as they were made aware of this matter on Sunday, they immediately contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to request that it investigate.
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GIRLS SOCCER: Thunder Basin tops East Apr 26, 2022 4 hrs ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save CHEYENNE – Junior Kylie Hayes scored two goals and assisted on another to help Thunder Basin to a 5-0 victory over visiting Cheyenne East on Monday.Sophomore Cena Carlson scored a pair of goals, while junior Rachel Cole added on goal and an assist.The Bolts put 27 of their 20 shots on goal, while East got just three shots (two on goal). Thunder Basin scored four goals in the second half.THUNDER BASIN 5, EAST 0Halftime: 1-0.Goals: TB, Hayes (Colo), 1. TB, Carlson (Hayes), 43. TB, Cole (Westbrook), 45. TB, Hayes (Cole), 48. TB, Carlson (Michael).Shots: CE 3, TB 27. Shots on goal: CE 2, TB 20. Saves: CE 15 (Kershaw); TB 2 (Michael; Shirley).Corner kicks: CE 1, TB 5. Offsides: CE 0, TB 2. Fouls: CE 4, TB 4. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Latest Special Section 2021 Wyoming Football Preview To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. Trending Now Lucas has found hitting stroke, rekindled passion for softball Wyoming LB Gibbs excited to fill big shoes Storm's Cinderella runs earn them national tourney invites PREP SOFTBALL: Central sweeps twinbill over Laramie Redshirt freshmen James, Omotosho impress in first scrimmage of spring Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. 2022 Wyoming Legislature Updates Sign up to receive daily headlines on the 2022 Wyoming Legislature session. News Updates Would you like to receive our daily news? Sign up today! News Updates - Laramie Boomerang Want to keep updated on news headlines? Sign up today! News Updates - Rawlins Times Would you like to receive our daily news? Sign up today! News Updates - Wyoming Business Report Would you like to receive our daily news? Sign up today! You must select at least one email list. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists
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CHEYENNE – A 10-run seventh inning propelled Cheyenne American Legion Post 6 to an 11-1 win over the visiting University of Wyoming club team on Monday night at Powers Field.
The game was tied 1-1 before senior Julian Romero tripled to center and was driven home by Corey Williams. The Sixers combined two walks, two hit batters, a dropped third strike, and error and six hits into 10 runs in the frame. Williams also had an RBI double during the seventh.
He finished the night 2 for 2, while Wyatt Haught, Colter McAnelly, Zach Costopoulos and Dominic Lopez all rapped two hits. Lopez and Costopoulos also had doubles, while Lopez drove in two runs. Kaden Anderson had a hit and two RBI.
Four Post 6 pitchers combined to strikeout 16 Cowboys. Bailey Applegarth fanned five hitters and allowed just one hit across three innings. Haught and McAnelly both struck out four hitters each during their two innings of work.
UW starting pitcher Max Pedroza – a former Sixers standout – posted four strikeouts in six innings of work. He also had a hit.
Cheyenne (4-0) returns to action Saturday when it hosts Rapid City (S.D.) Post 22 in a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. at Powers Field.
CHEYENNE 11, WYOMING 1
Wyoming…… 100 000 000 – 1 4 2
Cheyenne…… 000 001 (10)0X – 11 12 2
Wyoming pitching: Pedroza, Spadadora (7), Stautter (7) and Mazuria and Pedroza. Cheyenne pitching: Feezer, Applegarth (3), Haught (6), McAnnelly (8) and Anderson.
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CHEYENNE – Five Laramie County Community College athletes qualified for June’s College National Finals Rodeo based on where they finished in the Central Rocky Mountain’s season standings.
Bull rider Stefan Tonita was second in the CRMR, and earned his second CNFR berth. Breakaway ropers Hayden Madsen and Peyton Feyder, steer wrestler Bernard Girard and saddle bronc rider Sage Miller all earned their first CNFR bids.
Madsen won the regional breakaway roping title. She was second in that event at the University of Wyoming’s Laramie River Rendezvous with a two-run time of 5.0 seconds. Her 2.1-second run in the first go-round was the fastest of the rodeo.
The LCCC women won the team title in Laramie with 245 points.
Saddle bronc rider Garrett Long won UW’s rodeo with an aggregate score of 150 points thanks to a pair of 75-point rides. He narrowly missed out on a CNFR trip by finishing fourth in the CRMR.
Miller clinched his CNFR bid by capturing third in Laramie with a two-ride total of 146.
Girard had a pair of top-3 finishes at the Laramie River Rendezvous. He was runner-up in tie-down roping (20.3 seconds). His 9.6 in the finals was the fastest run of the rodeo. Girard also was third in steer wrestling (12.1 on two). He will compete at the CNFR in steer wrestling by virtue of his third-place finish in the CRMR season standings.
Feyder placed third on the year.
The CNFR will be held June 12-18 at the Wyoming Center in Casper. The top two women’s and men’s teams and the top three contestants in each event earn CNFR bids.
Also in Laramie, the LCCC tandem of Beto Cisneros (header) and Reese Wadhams (heeler) were second in 14.9 seconds.
Caydee Johnson took third in breakaway (5.3 seconds).
Burns High graduate Reata Beck earned her CNFR bid thanks to UW’s women’s squad winning the CRMR title. Beck tied for third in goat tying at the Laramie River Rendezvous (14.7). She took fifth in breakaway on the season.
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CHEYENNE – Cheyenne Central header Cory James Bomhoff and Gillette heeler Talon Larson placed second in team roping at the Saturday portion of the Wyoming High School Rodeo Association’s stop in Big Piney.
The tandem posted a time of 7.79 seconds. Bomhoff also placed fourth in tie-down roping Saturday (12.38 seconds).
Header Royce Breeden of Carpenter and heeler Kyle Kofron of Cheyenne took fourth in team roping Saturday (8.60).
Cheyenne bull rider Brenson Bartlett took second Sunday with a score of 55 points. He is second in the WYHSRA’s season standings.
Saddle bronc rider Colby Smith of Burns placed third Sunday by scoring 50 points. He is third in the season standings.
JR. HIGH RODEO Thompson, Farella win in Big Piney
CHEYENNE – Cheyenne’s Trigg Thompson and Juddy Farella both won two events during the junior high portion of the Wyoming High School Rodeo Association’s stop in Big Piney.
Thompson won chute dogging during the first rodeo with a time of 4.70 seconds. He and Farella also won team roping in the first rodeo (14.51). Farella and heeler Stesha Tidyman of Carpenter won ribbon roping in the first rodeo (9.82).
Thompson placed second in both boys breakaway roping (3.54) and light rifle shooting (211 points) in the first rodeo. He also was second in chute dogging in the second rode (5.79). Thompson and Farella were third in team roping in the second rodeo (13.55). Thompson also placed fifth in boys breakaway roping in the second rodeo (3.39).
Thompson is second in the season standings in both light rifle and breakaway. He is third in chute dogging.
Farella also took second in boys goat tying in the first rodeo (10.66). In the second rodeo, Farella was third in goat tying (11.64) while he and Tidyman were third in ribbon roping (10.64).
Farella is second in the season standings in goat tying and fourth in breakaway.
Tidyman had a pair of sixth-place finishes in barrel racing on the weekend. She ran the pattern in 17.297 seconds in the first rodeo and 17.173 in the second.
Cheyenne’s Tripp Thompson placed third in light rifle shooting in the first rodeo (155 points).
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120,000 pounds of beef recalled over E.coli concerns
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray) - More than 120,000 pounds of ground beef products have been recalled due to E.coli concerns, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Lakeside Refrigerated Services issued the recall on beef products that were manufactured between Feb. 1 and April 8, according to an FSIS notice. The recalled brands include Nature’s Reserve, SEG, Thomas Farms, Tajima Beef Patties and Marketside Butcher wagyu beef, WAVE reported.
The items were shipped to retail locations nationwide.
There have been no reports of people getting sick after eating the recalled ground beef products.
The USDA lists beef items and product codes that are being recalled can be viewed as well as labels for the affected products.
The agency said it’s concerned that some products may be in people’s refrigerators or freezers.
People who have these products are urged not to eat them. Instead, throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.
Most people infected with E.coli O103 develop diarrhea (often bloody) and vomiting, but in rare cases, more serious illnesses may result, including a type of kidney failure. Seek medical attention if you or a loved one develop concerning symptoms.
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2 children, woman killed by gunman at Russian kindergarten
MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman on Tuesday killed two children and a staff member at a kindergarten in central Russia, authorities said.
A man entered the kindergarten in the town of Veshkayma and shot a female staff member and two children, ages 5 and 6, before shooting himself, said Sergei Morozov, a federal lawmaker and the former governor of the Ulyanovsk region, where the killings took place.
One other staff member was wounded, according to local health officials. The motive of the gunman remained unclear. Ulyanovsk human rights envoy Sergei Lulkov told the Interfax news agency that the man had no relation whatsoever to any of the victims.
Russia’s human rights ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova identified the perpetrator as a 26-year-old mentally ill man. Ulyanovsk lawmaker Boris Stolypin told the Russian state Tass news agency that the gunman stole the weapon — an IZh-26 hunting gun — from another man, whom he also killed.
Police have launched a criminal investigation into the shooting, and Ulyanovsk authorities have promised to pay families of the victims 1 million rubles (about $49,000).
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Driver allegedly racing crashes into school bus
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Gray News) - Newly released video from the Albuquerque Police Department shows the terrifying moment a school bus was hit by a driver who investigators said was racing another car.
It happened Feb. 23 in southwest Albuquerque, New Mexico, at about 4 p.m., according to KOAT.
They reported the bus driver told police he was on his normal route when the bus was struck at an intersection.
The video shows the moment of impact, as students from George Sanchez Middle were thrown about inside the bus.
Those nearby ran to help as the students began to climb out of the bus.
Twenty-three children were on board at the time of the crash. Seven children were taken to the hospital, KOAT reported. Two of them were severely injured.
In the video, police officers and bystanders can be heard attempting to comfort the students, including one with a broken leg.
Police said witnesses reported the driver of the Mustang, identified as Mario Perez, was racing another car at the time of the crash and said he admitted to driving fast.
Investigators believe Perez was going faster than 110 mph at one point.
When he hit the bus, police said he was going about 65 to 80 mph, causing the bus to fall to its side.
Perez has been charged with two counts of great bodily harm with a vehicle.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. KOAT via CNN Newsource contributed to this report.
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