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HONOLULU (KITV4) – Hawaii Food Bank officials said they are facing a double-whammy with a demand for their services increasing as well as the price of the food they give out.
The CEO and President of Hawaii Food Bank, Amy Marvin, said food costs increased by more than 10% in 2022.
“We are seeing more and more families show up to our food distribution sites. Many families were barely able to make ends meet during the pandemic but with these economic hardships, they now need help. At the same time, our food prices are going up to provide these free services,” said Marvin.
She also said the organization can really stretch $1. Every $1 donated can cover more than two meals.
“What we have to do now is, when we buy food, we have to raise more money than we typically aim for to cover these new costs,” said Neill Char, board member at Hawaii Food Bank.
The organization held a gathering outside Water Front Plaza on Saturday to accept both food and cash donations.
They said another goal they have is food rescue. They urge residents to bring in fresh food from home that might go to waste. They also work with local grocery stores to recue fresh produce.
"It was really great for us to give these food items to people who need them especially right now because when we go shopping for ourselves, everything is really high. The cost of food, gas and everything else is high," said Jonathan Sypert, a food donor.
If you’re interested in donating or volunteering at Hawaii Food bank, visit their website at Hawaiiafoodbank.org or call 808-836-3600. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/hawaii-food-bank-facing-double-whammy-rising-food-costs-higher-demand-for-services/article_3e998ca8-2674-11ed-afee-038d47633fb3.html | 2022-08-29T19:19:10Z |
HONOLULU (KITV4) – Dozens of mental healthcare workers are back on strike indefinitely until Kaiser Permanente reaches an agreement with their workers on a set contract and new protocols to attract more mental health professionals.
"Kaiser is woefully and egregiously understaffed. It’s to an extent if you want to get mental health care, you are waiting months to get a first time visit and then another several months to get a second. However, Kaiser is making millions of dollars off of providing health coverage and isn’t," said Dr. Rachel Kaya, licensed psychologist at Kaiser Maui Lani Medical Office.
Dr. Kaya said she's worked at Kaiser Maui Lani for more than 12 years and was never offered a contract. She is flying in from Maui early morning to join the first protest outside the Kaiser Honolulu Medical Office.
One of the goals is for Kaiser to commit to hiring a set number of new employees.
"Unfortunately, Kaiser’s approach to hiring more therapists is they want to offer less pay and cut some benefits to attract new hires," said Andrea Kumura, licensed clinical social worker, Kaiser behavioral health services.
According to a state report, there are 2,700 active licenses for mental health workers. The union says only 57 of them work at Kaiser, serving 266,000 patients.
Kaiser Permanente declined an interview but released the following statement:
“It is disappointing the National Union of Healthcare Workers has again called on our dedicated and compassionate mental health professionals to walk away from their patients in Hawaii at a time when the need for mental health care is so critical. Kaiser Permanente and the NUHW are negotiating an initial contract. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this event may cause."
The strikes start Monday and will be rotating locations around the islands. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/mental-healthcare-workers-for-kaiser-permanente-in-hawaii-to-go-on-strike/article_68945030-274e-11ed-8c10-a7a8e5f13e31.html | 2022-08-29T19:19:16Z |
HONOLULU (KITV4) - Trade winds will weaken to start the work week. Humid conditions will prevail with partly to mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers. Highs 84 to 92. Trade winds 10 to 15 mph, with localized land and sea breezes.
The trades will weaken today, allowing localized land and sea breezes to become common in the more sheltered leeward areas through mid week. Clouds and showers will focus over windward areas during the night and early morning hours, then transition over to the island interiors and leeward areas each afternoon through Wednesday. A disturbance aloft will keep showers a bit more active over the western islands through Tuesday, with drier more stable conditions overspreading the entire state Tuesday night and Wednesday. Moderate trade winds will return for the latter part of the work week, and we should also see an increase in trade wind showers as a mid-level trough moves through. A more typical mainly windward and mauka focused shower pattern is expected late Friday through next weekend, with moderate trades prevailing.
Small surf is anticipated for all shores through the week. Trades will continue to ease today, giving way to local land and sea breeze conditions later today through Wednesday. A return of breezy trades through the second half of the week will lead to increasing surf along east facing shores.
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Tristan Hamm, founder of adventure experiences company ‘Revived-Outdoors’ is on a mission to change the way people experience travels to Hawaii.
Where a world of geotagging and social media is in many ways ruining beautiful local locations, Revived Outdoors company founder Tristan Hamm is on a mission to educate and inspire the right means of travel through his various humanitarian initiatives on Oahu and beyond to various travel destinations across the United States.
Hamm collaborated with several brands that want to help recover revive people who need a trip to revive themselfves…whether on the mainland or here in Hawaii! These companies are donating to those people bringing them to Hawaii or people from Hawaii vacaying in Utah for an adventure experience All ON THE HOUSE!
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Tristan Hamm, founder of the adventure experiences company “Revived-Outdoors” is on a mission to change the way people experience travels to Hawaii and beyond.
Hamm is using what he learned while living in Hawaii to impact millions of people online and across the world with his Revived Outdoors adventures.
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“My mission is to focus on the spiritual impact that these places can have on people. Infect these people with them. Give back to these people with these trips and experiences,” Hamm said.
“I believe the aloha spirit is really essential to all our trips. It’s something that fills every single person who comes on our retreats. Whether they have a break through by integrating themselves with the animals or if they were rock climbing and overcame a fear of heights,” he added.
Hamm says he is on a mission to change the way people experience travels to Hawaii and to other destinations.
“We take people from the mainland and bring them to Hawaii, and we educate them about the right way to experience Hawaii -- any location not only Hawaii. Exploring not exploiting. Not geotagging,” he said.
Revived Outdoors is now offering free trips to anyone who is in need of an adventure. These are 7-day retreats in Oahu and Utah. Hamm is collaborating with several brands who are sponsoring these revivals.
“To help people who are challenged during COVID, maybe mentally, physically, financially, and actually donate to those people to bring them to Hawaii, bring them to Utah, give them a free adventure experience all on the house. Completely cover their flights, their stay, everything. What they’re brought home with is what really matters. Our goal is to revive people we don’t know what people are going through we are all going through something,” Hamm said.
To apply, search for Tristan Hamm’s Instagram @tristanhamm and nominate yourself or a friend who could use a revival experience. Each month he will announce a free trip winner.
Cynthia is an award-winning journalist who returned to Hawaii as an Anchor/Reporter/MMJ from Houston. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a B.A. and M.B.A. DM her on IG @CynthiaYipTV to share stories. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/revived-outdoors-changing-the-way-people-experience-travel-to-hawaii-and-beyond/article_79c068de-2709-11ed-8a96-37b95da97bf7.html | 2022-08-29T19:19:28Z |
Firefighters save two dogs from Port Huron house fire
Firefighters rescued two dogs from a house fire in Port Huron Sunday.
Rescue crews responded to the 2600 block of Elmwood Street for a report of a house fire at about 11 a.m., said Port Huron Fire Lt. Kevin Robinson.
No one was home at the time of the fire, but firefighters rescued two dogs from the home. The dogs were transported to a veterinary hospital in Richmond by Tri-Hospital EMS in unknown conditions, Robinson said.
There were no injuries.
There was significant fire damage to the living room area and smoke and water damage throughout the home, Robinson said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Port Huron Township, Marysville and Fort Gratiot fire departments, as well as the Port Huron Police Department, also assisted at the scene.
Contact Laura Fitzgerald at (810) 941-7072 or lfitzgeral@gannett.com. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/08/29/firefighters-save-two-dogs-from-port-huron-house-fire/65461394007/ | 2022-08-29T19:34:20Z |
Timeline to repair broken Great Lakes Water Authority main extended once again
The construction timeline to fix the Aug. 13 water main break in northern St. Clair County — that put Burtchville Township under a week-long boil water order this month — has once again been extended.
Previously, crews were slated to complete pipe repairs by Sept. 3 — itself initially a week-long extension from two weeks after the 120-inch water main broke — but the Great Lakes Water Authority did not specify an alternative completion date.
A 16-foot segment of pipe that had been sent back to the manufacturer when it didn’t meet specifications, and according to a news release out on Monday, the remaining 32 feet of pipe was expected to be delivered in two shipments.
One shipment was due to arrive on Monday, while the final piece was expected to be in transit by that afternoon for arrival within two days.
“As soon as all the pipe is received on-site our crews will reassess the timeline and provide an update on the completion of repairs, including the steps we need to place the transmission main back into service,” GLWA CEO Suzanne Coffey said in a statement Monday. “I want to thank our member partners and the residents of those communities that have limited their outdoor water usage. It has certainly assisted us in maintaining stable system pressures and operations.”
Crews were expected to begin repairs upon delivery once all of the 120-inch pipe was on the repair site, according to the authority.
The transmission main, which distributes drinking water from GLWA’s Lake Huron Water Treatment Facility, broke early on Aug. 13, resulting in a temporary boil order for Burtchville — the only community to be a water customer of the authority in St. Clair County — and host of other communities in three other counties. The boil order was lifted Aug. 20.
Regular updates on the water main construction are shared at https://www.glwater.org. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2022/08/29/timeline-to-repair-broken-great-lakes-water-authority-main-extended-once-again/65462172007/ | 2022-08-29T19:34:26Z |
Blue Water Area Week 2 high school football schedule
Brenden Welper
Port Huron Times Herald
Week 2 of the 2022 high school football season begins Thursday. Here is the complete schedule for teams in the Blue Water Area.
Thursday
Bad Axe at Sandusky — 7 p.m.
Croswell-Lexington at Richmond — 7 p.m.
Hamtramck at Almont — 7 p.m.
Hazel Park at Marysville — 7 p.m.
Marine City at Clawson — 7 p.m.
North Branch at Imlay City — 7 p.m.
Port Huron at Eastpointe — 7 p.m.
Unionville-Sebawing at Marlette — 7 p.m.
Vassar at Memphis — 7 p.m.
Warren Fitzgerald at Port Huron Northern — 7 p.m.
Warren Lincoln at St. Clair — 7 p.m.
Yale at Armada — 7 p.m.
Friday
Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary at Cardinal Mooney — 7 p.m.
Contact Brenden Welper at bwelper@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrendenWelper. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/sports/2022/08/29/blue-water-area-week-2-high-school-football-schedule/65460661007/ | 2022-08-29T19:34:32Z |
Vote for the Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week
High school sports have returned. Now it's time for the Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week poll to do the same. Here's the first one of the 2022-23 season.
Remember: Voting ends at noon on Thursday.
The most recent winner was Richmond softball's Katie Shuboy, who pitched a complete game with 11 strikeouts and zero earned runs in the Blue Devils' 6-1 win over Almont in a Division 3 district final on June 4.
Want to nominate an athlete for a future poll? Email Times Herald sports reporter Brenden Welper (bwelper@gannett.com) and let him know who had a stellar week. Please submit entries by 10 p.m. on Sunday.
Listed below are this week’s candidates in alphabetical order:
Jesse Kautz — Almont girls golf: The junior was the medalist in the Raiders' seven-team BWAC match at Richmond Forest Golf Course on Aug. 23. Kautz shot a 40 to help Almont grab first place with a team score of 211.
Emma Keeping — Imlay City volleyball: The freshman totaled 24 kills (52.4 hitting percentage), 33 assists and nine digs in the Spartans' three wins over Armada, Almont and Yale on Aug. 26.
Sebastian Salcedo — Imlay City boys soccer: Salcedo scored three goals in the Spartans' 9-1 victory over Armada on Aug. 24. He also added one assist.
Jonathan Wentzel — Sandusky boys tennis: The senior was the medalist in No. 1 singles at the Sandusky Invitational on Aug. 26. Wentzel won his matches by scores of 8-1, 9-8 (11-9) and 8-2. Sandusky placed first with 46 points.
Paige Zuehlke — Port Huron volleyball: Zuehlke amassed 20 kills, 10 digs and one block in the Big Reds' three wins over Chippewa Valley, Clawson and Macomb Lutheran North on Aug. 25.
Contact Brenden Welper at bwelper@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrendenWelper. | https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/sports/2022/08/29/vote-for-blue-water-area-athlete-week/65460628007/ | 2022-08-29T19:34:38Z |
18-year-old brought rifle to school to ‘confront former teacher,’ police say
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - An 18-year-old was arrested for bringing an assault rifle onto a private school’s campus, according to officials.
A report obtained by WVLT said police in Knoxville, Tennessee, received a tip from a source saying Aidan Eldridge “wasn’t in his right mind” and was on the way to Christian Academy of Knoxville’s campus “to confront a former teacher that he had problems with.” The tip also said Eldridge was armed, according to the report.
An officer who responded to the tip found Eldridge’s vehicle, a gold Ford F-150, on campus and saw an assault rifle on the front floorboard, officials said. Responding officers said they took the rifle.
Eldridge was taken into custody after officers found him at the school’s football stadium and charged him with carrying a weapon on school property and driving while his license was suspended, the report said.
A statement provided by the school said that school officials contacted police as soon as they were told about the weapon.
Eldridge has a preliminary hearing set for Sept. 27.
WVLT reports Eldridge had been arrested once before on Aug. 15, when he was charged with possession of a handgun while being under the influence and simple possession.
Copyright 2022 WVLT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/18-year-old-brought-rifle-school-confront-former-teacher-police-say/ | 2022-08-29T20:04:30Z |
Boy’s body is failing, parents discover extraordinary solution
Nothing seemed to help an autistic Tennessee boy with a rare autoimmune disorder until his parents discovered an extraordinary solution that changed not one life, but two.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Life has been consistently unlucky for 7-year-old Jameson Wall, an autistic Tennessee boy who was born drug-dependent and later diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder.
A series of at-home videos document years of struggles, doctor visits and hospital stays.
In one video, Jameson is shaking and crying, telling his mother, “I don’t know how to control my body!”
In other videos, Jameson is hooked up to monitors, shaking and twitching or struggling to control his arm so that he can feed himself.
Jameson’s mother, Laura Wall, said he has Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, (PANS), and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated w/ Streptococcal Infections, (PANDAS).
Stanford Medicine identifies PANS as a dramatic onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms that can include obsessions and eating disorders thought to be “triggered by infections, metabolic disturbances, and other inflammatory reactions.”
PANDAS creates a sudden onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms like OCD or tics following a streptococcal infection, according to Stanford Medicine. Symptoms can also include uncontrollable emotions, irritability, anxiety and loss of motor skills.
“He can wake up one morning and it looks like he has Parkinson’s and he can’t say words he used to be able to speak clearly. He would engage in self harming behaviors and draw blood,” said Laura Wall.
Jameson’s parents, Corey and Laura Wall, started to feel like nothing could help their son.
“We’ve been to countless therapy appointments. You name it, we’ve tried it and it seems like there’s been nothing that has been what’s going to help,” said Laura. “Nothing?” asked WVLT News Anchor Amanda Hara. “Well, recently he’s had some luck,” revealed Laura.
An introduction to a dog named Sushi turned Jameson’s bad luck into good fortune.
“Sushi can bring him out of a stressful time very quick. Other kids are wanting to be around him more since Sushi came into his life,” said Corey.
“He is capable of forming a relationship with people now, through the dog. We know he has it in his heart. He has the capacity,” remarked Laura.
The pit bull named Sushi became Jameson’s stroke of luck. However, it turns out Sushi needed a little luck of his own. The stray was dumped at Focus on Cumberland County Animal Safety (FOCCAS), an animal rescue in Crossville, Tennessee.
“He’s a very calm dog, but most importantly he wants to please. That’s what he lives for,” said FOCCAS Founding President Jan Hendrixson.
Sushi’s online adoption listing described his potential to be a service dog.
That’s what Laura and Corey Wall were drawn to after a trip to Vanderbilt’s Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital where Jameson responded well to a facility dog named Squid.
But Jameson said he was drawn to something else; “I adopted Sushi because he didn’t have a home.”
Sushi went months without a permanent home. Jameson went even longer.
“After 717 days and 15 court dates, we finalized the adoption in August of 2018,” said Laura. “They both know what it’s like to be homeless. And to not be wanted. But also, they both know what it’s like to have found a family.”
Corey and Laura said Jameson’s family didn’t have the time or resources to help him, so they stepped in when he was just a toddler. She said their shared past makes the connection stronger.
“They share the same story. Both of them didn’t have a safe place to land. Both of them spent a long time waiting for that safe place to land and both of them held on and persevered,” said Laura.
On it’s website, Vanderbilt reports that growing evidence shows animals can have profound effects on patients. “Research shows that human-canine interactions with a gentle, friendly, trained animal have benefits including stabilizing blood pressure, diminishing pain, reducing anxiety and even encouraging communication.”
In July, the Wall family sent Sushi to an animal training program in Georgia, hoping to further enhance his ability to help Jameson. Sushi graduated in August, then accompanied Jameson to an appointment at Vanderbilt. His mom said it’s the first time he hasn’t cried at the hospital.
“We live for this. It’s a rare occurrence to have this kind of adoption. We get chills just talking about it. I can’t imagine a better life for a dog than to have your own kid that you get to take care of. It looks like it’s the perfect fit for Sushi, and we just couldn’t be any happier,” said Hendrixson at FOCCAS.
“What do you think this story is about?” asked Hara. “Is it about not giving up when you luck seems to have run out?” Laura replied, “That, and giving the unlikely a chance.”
Because who knows? It might just lead to a stroke of luck.
“The kid goes through so many struggles so many pokes and sticks. He finally gets a win. He gets to have his best friend with him everyday,” said Laura.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/boys-body-is-failing-parents-discover-extraordinary-solution/ | 2022-08-29T20:04:37Z |
Commanders’ Robinson says he had surgery after shooting
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. said Monday he underwent surgery a day after being shot in what the NFL team described as an attempted robbery or carjacking.
Robinson posted to social media from a hospital that surgery went well and thanked followers for their prayers, which the team passed along on its official Twitter account. Coach Ron Rivera after practice said doctors have been positive, but added there’s no timeline for Robinson’s return to the football field.
“He was in a really good place,” said Rivera, who visited Robinson at the hospital Sunday night along with owners Dan and Tanya Snyder, team president Jason Wright, running backs coach Randy Jordan and players.
“The doctors were very positive with him, and he was very positive, as well. We’re very fortunate. He’s very fortunate. It was a very unfortunate situation, but he’s doing well and it’ll be a matter of time before he’s back out here.”
A report by District of Columbia police indicated Robinson was shot in one of his legs by two suspects. The 23-year-old former Alabama player was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center with what the team called non-life-threatening injuries.
“It’s sad,” defensive captain and fellow Alabama product Jonathan Allen said. “Young guy. You never want to see something like that happen. By the grace of God, he’s OK. It’s not life-threatening, and he’s going to be OK, so that’s really what’s the most important thing right now.”
Rivera gathered players for a team meeting before practice Monday, 13 days before the start of the regular season. Robinson impressed since Washington drafted him in the third round and looked to have earned a starting job.
“He’s exactly the kind of guy that we want, and he’s exactly the kind of guy that we needed,” Allen said. “We’re really excited about him.”
Rivera wore an orange shirt to signify his support for measures to curb gun violence and spoke about the subject. He said Robinson was in the wrong place at the wrong time just trying to get a meal when the incident happened outside a popular Washington establishment.
The veteran coach, who was watching film of Robinson along with Jordan when he learned what happened, said Robinson “sounded pretty optimistic and positive, considering his circumstances.”
“Everything’s been very positive so far,” Rivera said. “It’s just about the healing process and once he’s well enough to get out on the field, then the doctors will have to clear him, obviously, and then we’ll go from there.”
The concern about Robinson extended beyond Washington to Tuscaloosa, where he played five seasons for Alabama.
“Obviously that’s something that’s really sad,” Crimson Tide quarterback Bryce Young said. “Me individually and us as a team, I think we’re just sending our prayers and our love to B-Rob and his family in a tough time like this.”
Alabama coach Nick Saban said he tried to call before then texting Robinson and relayed similar optimism as Rivera.
“We’re glad that this is not something that is critical to his future or putting his life in jeopardy in the short term,” Saban said.
“He’s doing well relative to the information that we have, even to the point where they think he may be able to come back and play at some point in the season. We’re hopeful for that and keep our fingers crossed.”
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AP reporters Mike Balsalmo and John Zenor contributed.
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Little League player injured in fall expected to be transferred back to home state
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 3:30 PM EDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
PENNSYLVANIA (CNN) – As the Little League World Series was wrapping up Sunday, one Utah player was continuing his recovery.
Easton Oliverson, 12, was severely injured Aug. 15 when he fell out of a bunk bed in Williamsport, fracturing his skull.
The Instagram account that provides medical updates on his condition showed him eating nachos, his favorite food, Sunday.
His family said Easton has been dealing with “quite a bit of pain” since his latest surgery on Friday.
After a couple of setbacks, the Oliverson family believes Easton should finally be able to transfer back to Utah later this week.
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Planning for big-ticket purchases can save big bucks
Combine sales calendar and tracking apps for best price
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 2:57 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
If you have a big-ticket purchase pending, the experts at the financial website NerdWallet said there are a few things you can do to make it more affordable.
First, shop the biggest sale weekends of the year:
- Memorial Day, July Fourth and Labor Day Weekend are the best times for deals on appliances, furniture, and mattresses.
- Televisions typically see their lowest prices in late January and early February.
Use tools to track prices:
- Amazon Assistant lets you know if Amazon offers a lower price when you’re shopping elsewhere.
- Honey browser extension pulls coupons from across the web.
- Coupon Cabin alerts you to cash back.
Know when your state has a sales tax holiday:
- Tax free categories and length of sales vary so check your state government’s website for details
Slowly build up an emergency fund:
- Helps with an unexpected purchase of an expensive item.
- To start, try to put aside $25 a paycheck.
NerdWallet also has a guide for the best sales items by month.
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Service Delayed: Military members and veterans lodge thousands of complaints over credit report mistakes
Inaccuracies not only blur financial futures but could also derail careers
InvestigateTV - Tiffany Ellett has lived her adult life dedicated to service. After four years in the Army as an intelligence analyst, with tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, she took a new role with The American Legion, a veteran service organization.
In her position as Deputy Director for Health Policy, Ellett said she’s able to help veterans navigate the same challenges she faced while transitioning back to civilian life after living in a system where many things were handled by the military.
“We’re not trained, when you come out there’s no reverse basic training that helps you with financial literacy or medical literacy,” Ellett said.
Ellett said perhaps the biggest struggle her clients face is understanding their medical bills.
“There’s a number of things that can interfere with veterans and service members receiving their bills, and then once we get it we’re not really sure what to do with it,” she said.
Servicemembers and veterans aren’t just lost trying to learn financial and medical systems; a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) report reveals thousands of complaints claiming those systems are failing them altogether.
According to the CFPB’s Office of Veteran Affairs latest report, since 2011, service members, military families and veterans registered over 250,000 consumer complaints. In 2021 alone, 51% of those complaints were for “inaccurate information on their credit reports”.
For example, this complaint out of Florida:
“I went to the XXXX. I had insurance through the military XXXX XXXX The visit was not billed under my insurance it was billed as though I had none. Now its on my credit report. Ive disputed it’ multiple times and they refuse to drop it or try to work it out.” – CFPB Report
Jim Rice, the CFPB’s Assistant Director for the Office of Servicemember Affairs, said those mistakes can lead to significant problems.
“It really can be serious for that service member, [and] can have a negative impact on their credit rating,” Rice said.
One of the major findings of the CFPB report was the major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, were failing to respond to military members’ credit complaints.
According to the report, in 2021 there was a 71% increase in the number of complaints military members filed, indicating the credit agency did not reply within 30 days or did not resolve the issue within 30 days.
The report identified complaints from across the United States in 2021. Georgia, Washington D.C. and Nevada came in as the top areas for complaints per capita, and hundreds of complaints were lodged by service members stationed abroad.
Rice said that turnaround time on complaints was not good enough.
“The national credit reporting companies should hold themselves to the standard that they’ve agreed that they should meet,” Rice said “That is to reply within 30 days and fix that credit appropriately for that service member.”
The CFPB supervises TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian for compliance with several federal laws, including the Dodd-Frank Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
According to a statement from the bureau, the CFPB also “takes enforcement actions against entities or persons who violate the FCRA.” Relevant enforcement actions over the years can be found here:
“Transunion, Experient and Equifax, we’re going to hold them accountable for accuracy and making sure that they’re not allowing inaccurate information to flow into the system,” said John McNamara, the CFPB’s Principal Assistant Director of Markets.
Communication breakdown
Members of the military, their families, and veterans are covered by an insurance program called TRICARE. The program uses a network of VA facilities and civilian healthcare options.
According to the CFPB report, a “common way that service members accrue medical debt” is during a breakdown in the medical billing process between the private provider and TRICARE.
One complaint referenced in the report detailed a service member’s struggles with the process:
“I asked the company, [NCRC], to investigate thoroughly the [debt collector] account on my credit report because it in inaccurate. It is for a medical debt that I am not responsible for. The hospital that it would have come from had full access to our insurance information and billed by our active-duty military insurance, Tricare. The insurance paid this debt. Now, [debt collector]is trying to get double paid by us as patients as well for the hospital. This is illegal and unethical. I have asked the creditor and [NCRC] several times to remove it and have even provided evidence to w[h]ere other credit bureaus found it to be a fraudulent debt claim and remove it. [NCRC] still refused to remove it.” – CFPB REPORT
InvestigateTV reached out to the Veterans Administration and the Defense Health Agency (DHA), which operates TRICARE about billing problems affecting servicemembers’ credit.
In a statement, the VA wrote it recently changed its process on how it reports to the credit reporting agencies which yielded a “99% reduction” in unfavorable debt reports.
The DHA replied in an email that its managed care contractors are “required to have a process for documenting all inquiries and referral” to a debt collection assistance officer. The statement went on to say it received a monthly report on debt collection cases and its health care contractors neither send “accounts to debt collection nor tracks or monitors the status of cases transferred to a debt collection agency by a provider.”
The impact of inaccuracies
John McNamara worked in the debt collection industry for more than 20 years. He’s now the CFPB’s Principal Assistant Director of Markets. He said credit inaccuracies can have a significant impact.
“I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for that information to be accurate, because big decisions are based on that information,” McNamara said.
For service members, inaccurate debt information not only hurts their chances of buying a house or a car, but it can also negatively affect their security clearance a certification that allows an individual to “have access to classified information or be assigned to a highly sensitive job.”
Credit report flags became more important in 2017 when the Department of Defense switched from a five- or ten-year check for security clearances to continuous monitoring.
“If there’s a flag on someone’s credit process, they could indicate that they’re a risk and it could influence their security clearance,” said Jim Rice.
McNamara said that can have a devastating effect.
“If it’s not addressed and it’s wrong, it can hang out there for seven years, depriving you of credit, depriving you of the place that you want to live, maybe depriving you of the job of your dreams,” McNamara said.
He said communication was key for debt collectors to reduce the number of possible inaccuracies on military members’ and veterans’ credit reports.
“For one thing, be responsive to the consumers,” McNamara said. “Double check the clients. Make sure that the information they’re getting from the clients is absolutely accurate.”
InvestigateTV reached out to the big three credit companies to ask if they were instituting changes because of the report.
TransUnion, the only company to respond, referred us to the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA), a representative for the nationwide credit bureaus.
The CDIA declined our request for an interview but said in a statement “it’s committed to helping military service members and all consumers resolve any potential errors on their credit reports.” The CDIA recommends people file a dispute online if they feel their information is inaccurate or incomplete.
According to a March 2022 press release, Experian, Equifax and TransUnion released a joint statement announcing that “paid medical collection debt will no longer be included on consumer credit reports”. Also, in 2023 the three major credit bureaus will stop reporting medical collection debt below $500.
The CFPB said there are steps service members and veterans can take to protect their credit:
* Check your bills for accuracy and ask debt collectors to verify the debt by providing you with information about the collector and the bill.
* Steer clear of people charging an upfront fee. Don’t pay a person or service that promises to keep medical bills off your credit report. Those are likely scams.
The CFPB said debt collectors can contact you while trying to collect a legitimate debt, but they must comply with the laws that apply to debt collection, which include avoiding harassing or abusive calls.
If the calls persist, the CFPB said you should report them.
Jim Rice, a veteran himself, said he hopes the CFPB’s report leads to changes in the way service members and fellow veterans are treated when it comes to fixing and eliminating problems on credit reports.
“I think it’s important that people who are making the commitment that they do, to the country, get at least the things that they are owed,” he said.
Full statements
OFFICE OF VETERANS AFFAIRS A STATEMENT:
“VA recently changed the process in which we report to the Credit Reporting Agencies (CRA) which yielded a 99% reduction. In regards to medical copayment debts, VA has never reported delinquent medical copayments to the CRAs.
The VA now will only report debts that meet the following standards: the debt is classified as currently not collectible, the debt is not owed by an individual who is determined by VA to be catastrophically disabled or has reported to VA a gross household income below the applicable geographically adjusted income limits, and the outstanding debt amount is over $25. This new rule authorizes VA to reduce reporting to roughly 13 accounts per year. The final rule was published in the Federal Register on February 2, 2022 and put into effect March 4, 2022.”
TRICARE STATEMENT
“DHA is responsible for oversight and management of the TRICARE Managed Care Support Contracts. Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) assess contractor performance against all contract requirements, including claims and customer assistance to beneficiaries with claims issues.
DHA’s debt collection support to beneficiaries is multi-pronged and includes government Beneficiary Counselor and Assistance Coordinators (BCACs) and Debt Collection Assistance Officers (DCAOs) located at Military Treatment Facilities and within the TRICARE Health Plan Division. The Managed Care Support Contractors (MCSCs), currently Humana Government Business (HGB) and Health Net Federal Services (HNFS), have internal customer service procedures for handling of debt collection inquiries. Synchronized claims and debt collection inquiry processes between DHA and the MCSCs include submission of inquiries by mail, fax or email; assignment to a DCAO; coordination with the beneficiary on any necessary actions, and, communication of final resolution by phone, mail, or email.
The TRICARE contracts include timeliness and accuracy requirements established by the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and TRICARE Operations Manual for claims processing and debt collection assistance for debt collected by the government as well as providers. The MCSCs are required to have a process for documenting all inquiries and referral to a DHA DCAO. The MCSCs report monthly to DHA the number of DCAO cases received and referred. Neither MCSC sends beneficiary accounts to debt collection nor tracks or monitors the status of cases transferred to a debt collection agency by a provider.
A review of the HGB and HNFS reports found the following number of claims referred for debt collection assistance:
1. HNFS (July 2018 - April 2022): 1298 claims
2. HGB (January 2018-June 2022): 15741 claims
Claims for health care services are only reimbursable for covered benefits obtained in accordance with the applicable TRICARE plan. Beneficiaries and providers must comply with TRICARE policies for obtaining and providing care. e.g., if a referral is required to receive services, the claim is not payable if a referral was not obtained. If an Active Duty Service Member sees a private sector provider without an MTF referral (or DHA-approved Supplemental Health Care Program Waiver) and the claim is denied by the regional contractor, it is likely to get sent to collections.
There are many reasons for non-payment of a claim, e.g., lack of referral, wrong billing codes or providers not in the system. When a TRICARE claim fails to pay, MCSCs utilize internal processes (approved by DHA) to identify the problem and notify the beneficiary and/or provider(s) of the issue(s) and assist those parties in correcting or appealing the claim.
DHA and the MCSCs provide continuous beneficiary and provider education and information regarding TRICARE benefits and reimbursement to beneficiaries and providers via DHA and MCSC websites, briefings, mailings and other methods. During the COVID pandemic, the MCSCs even increased the number of virtual “non-contact” events to maintain communication and education for beneficiaries’ ad providers, including Reserve and National Guard units.
Specific to Active Duty Service member (ADSM) and TRICARE claims, DHA continues to work to clarify the rules governing ADSM private sector care and claims payment/denials - to include compliance with referral requirements (and permissible consequences) and whether or not ADSMs may avail themselves of Other Health Insurance (OHI) if such coverage is not excluded by the policy terms based on military duty status).”
CONSUMER DATA INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION STATEMENT:
“Accurate credit reporting is vital to a healthy economy and consumers—especially those serving our country in uniform. We are committed to helping military servicemembers—and all consumers—resolve any potential errors on their credit reports. We are working diligently across the financial ecosystem to make sure consumer credit reports are accurate and comprehensive.
We recommend consumers proactively monitor their credit reports so that they are more aware of what lenders may see. Our industry has taken joint action to extend the pandemic response service offering free weekly credit reports to consumers through the end of 2022. These free weekly credit reports are available from AnnualCreditReport.com, the only official website authorized by federal law for this purpose.
If a consumer reviews their credit report and finds their personal information to be inaccurate or incomplete, they may file a dispute online with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. The dispute process is an important tool to notify credit bureaus about any data that may have been furnished inaccurately.”
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According to the Wyoming State Historical Society, on August 28, 1962, Union Pacific closed its last Wyoming coal mine, Rock Springs No. 8. On August 29, 1886, the first passenger train arrived in Douglas on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad. On the topic of trains, on August 29, 1900, a Union Pacific train near Tipton was robbed by the Wild Bunch, probably including Butch Cassidy. On August 31, 1944, soldiers near Guernsey found a dead deer with a marker that read "a genuine John Doe lies here." On September 1, 1903, the first automobile was delivered in Cheyenne. On September 2, 1869, voters at the first territorial elections in Wyoming elected only Democrats to the territorial legislature. On September 3, 1918, the first uranium discovery in Wyoming, which was near Lusk, was announced. Also on September 3, but in 1931, a jury found a Gillette man not guilty of unlawful hypnotism.
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It’s been one year since Hurricane Ida made landfall in Southeast Louisiana. Terrebonne Parish was hard hit and is still recovering.
WWNO’s Kezia Setyawan spoke with some residents about their experiences.
Carolyn Marcel points to the rosebushes she placed outside of the FEMA trailer that they have been living in since December. (Kezia Setyawan)
Photo of Carolyn Marcel’s family and her father before he passed away. (Kezia Setyawan)
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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The federal government is putting a pause on sending free COVID-19 testing kits to Americans starting in September, due to a lack of funding.
"Ordering through this program will be suspended on Friday, September 2 because Congress hasn't provided additional funding to replenish the nation's stockpile of tests," the ordering website says.
However, the program is still accepting orders before Sep. 2.
The White House first began sending out the kits in January. By last May, the White House said 350 million tests had been given away to 70 million households, more than half of the households in the U.S.
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The U.S. Open began Monday in Flushing Meadows, New York. Storylines abound with the tournament likely to be generational star Serena Williams‘ last major, while men’s star Novak Djokovic is set to miss his second U.S. Open in a row. Both the men’s and women’s draws appear to be wide open as play gets underway.
Tennis correspondent for the New York Times Christopher Clarey joins Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd with the latest.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Ukraine has been talking for weeks about a possible counteroffensive against Russian forces in and around the southern city of Kherson. Without the Ukrainian government saying so explicitly, a new round of Ukrainian military attacks on Monday suggested such a push may now be underway.
However, in Washington, U.S. officials said Ukraine's intent was not yet clear. A senior U.S. defense official told reporters that "the Ukrainians have told us what you're seeing in open-source media, that they have started an offensive of some sort. We just don't know the level." The official said the scale of the operation would likely become clearer in the next day or two.
The Ukraine media described it as a significant offensive.
"Ukrainian Counteroffensive Underway in the Kherson Region," the Kyiv Post said in its top story. The newspaper cited reports of frequent explosions in and around Kherson.
The Kyiv Independent offered a similar take, quoting military spokesperson Natalia Humeniuk saying Ukraine's armed forces attacked Monday "in many directions in the south of Ukraine."
Mykhailo Podolyak, a top advisor to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, also suggested an operation was underway in a tweet laced with sarcasm:
Today, the only possible option for negotiations with Russia is being conducted by a special Ukrainian delegation in the southern and other directions of the frontline. "Negotiations" are going well. We expect new "compromises" in the form of "gestures of goodwill".
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) August 29, 2022
In the past, Russia has described its occasional retreats under Ukrainian military pressure as "gestures of goodwill."
Ukrainian troops on the move toward the front
NPR's Frank Langfitt was near the front Monday in the Mykolaiv region, about 30 miles northwest of Kherson, when it became clear Ukrainian troops were raising the heat on the Russians.
When he arrived in a village to speak with infantry, he learned they had been sent toward the front. During an interview with a village leader, the pace of outgoing artillery picked up, as did the number of tanks and armored personnel carriers traveling along the road. In addition, his press escort urged him to wrap the interview and leave the village for his own safety.
In exchanges with soldiers, Langfitt said there was no consensus on exactly what was happening. When he asked one if this was the beginning of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian said, "I hope so." Another called Monday's military moves "abstract," while a third said he believed this was the beginning of the long-promised push to Kherson.
In Washington, a U.S. official said Ukraine has been "shaping" the battlefield in the south for weeks, hitting Russian command centers, troop concentrations and weapons depots — all aided by U.S. and NATO weaponry. Such moves are often a prelude to a counteroffensive.
Kherson could test Ukraine's ability for a counteroffensive
Russia captured Kherson in early March, just a week into the war. It's one of the few sizeable cities the Russians have taken, and unlike the others, the Russians captured Kherson with little Ukrainian resistance.
As a result, the city has suffered less damage in than other Ukrainian cities in the east and the south. Russia has now occupied the city for nearly six months. Information on conditions in Kherson is hard to come by, though reports have surfaced of targeted Ukrainian attacks on Russian officials and soldiers, as well as Ukrainians who are collaborating with the Russians.
After attacking from several directions at the start of the war on Feb. 24, Russia has concentrated most of its firepower in the east of the country, facing stiff resistance from Ukraine.
As fighting in the east has essentially turned into a stalemate, Ukraine has steadily been building up its positions in the south, and Ukrainian officials have talked openly about the possibility of a counteroffensive.
Despite such discussions, Ukraine has not launched any major operations, and has made only small, sporadic military gains.
But now, armed with longer range U.S. artillery, Ukraine has been hitting far behind Russian lines, something it couldn't do earlier in the war. The Ukrainians also say they've damaged bridges that cross the Dnipro River, which could make it extremely difficult for Russia to resupply its forces in Kherson.
The city and the surrounding areas are the only places Russia controls to the west of the Dnipro River, which bisects the country as it travels north to south.
While Ukraine has put up a much tougher fight than most anyone expected, it has largely concentrated on defensive measures to halt, or at least limit, the Russian advances.
President Zelenskyy and other top Ukrainian officials say they have no intention of ceding territory to Russia, which now controls about 20% of Ukraine's land.
Yet Ukraine has not yet demonstrated that it can retake large chunks of territory seized by Russia. A major Ukrainian counteroffensive in and around Kherson would be a major test.
Kherson, which had a pre-war population of just under 300,000, is the capital of the Kherson Oblast, or region, an area roughly the size of the state of Maryland.
NPR's Tom Bowman contributed to this report from Washington, D.C., and Frank Langfitt contributed from Lymany, Ukraine.
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18-year-old brought rifle to school to ‘confront former teacher,’ police say
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - An 18-year-old was arrested for bringing an assault rifle onto a private school’s campus, according to officials.
A report obtained by WVLT said police in Knoxville, Tennessee, received a tip from a source saying Aidan Eldridge “wasn’t in his right mind” and was on the way to Christian Academy of Knoxville’s campus “to confront a former teacher that he had problems with.” The tip also said Eldridge was armed, according to the report.
An officer who responded to the tip found Eldridge’s vehicle, a gold Ford F-150, on campus and saw an assault rifle on the front floorboard, officials said. Responding officers said they took the rifle.
Eldridge was taken into custody after officers found him at the school’s football stadium and charged him with carrying a weapon on school property and driving while his license was suspended, the report said.
A statement provided by the school said that school officials contacted police as soon as they were told about the weapon.
Eldridge has a preliminary hearing set for Sept. 27.
WVLT reports Eldridge had been arrested once before on Aug. 15, when he was charged with possession of a handgun while being under the influence and simple possession.
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Boy’s body is failing, parents discover extraordinary solution
Nothing seemed to help an autistic Tennessee boy with a rare autoimmune disorder until his parents discovered an extraordinary solution that changed not one life, but two.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Life has been consistently unlucky for 7-year-old Jameson Wall, an autistic Tennessee boy who was born drug-dependent and later diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder.
A series of at-home videos document years of struggles, doctor visits and hospital stays.
In one video, Jameson is shaking and crying, telling his mother, “I don’t know how to control my body!”
In other videos, Jameson is hooked up to monitors, shaking and twitching or struggling to control his arm so that he can feed himself.
Jameson’s mother, Laura Wall, said he has Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, (PANS), and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated w/ Streptococcal Infections, (PANDAS).
Stanford Medicine identifies PANS as a dramatic onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms that can include obsessions and eating disorders thought to be “triggered by infections, metabolic disturbances, and other inflammatory reactions.”
PANDAS creates a sudden onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms like OCD or tics following a streptococcal infection, according to Stanford Medicine. Symptoms can also include uncontrollable emotions, irritability, anxiety and loss of motor skills.
“He can wake up one morning and it looks like he has Parkinson’s and he can’t say words he used to be able to speak clearly. He would engage in self harming behaviors and draw blood,” said Laura Wall.
Jameson’s parents, Corey and Laura Wall, started to feel like nothing could help their son.
“We’ve been to countless therapy appointments. You name it, we’ve tried it and it seems like there’s been nothing that has been what’s going to help,” said Laura. “Nothing?” asked WVLT News Anchor Amanda Hara. “Well, recently he’s had some luck,” revealed Laura.
An introduction to a dog named Sushi turned Jameson’s bad luck into good fortune.
“Sushi can bring him out of a stressful time very quick. Other kids are wanting to be around him more since Sushi came into his life,” said Corey.
“He is capable of forming a relationship with people now, through the dog. We know he has it in his heart. He has the capacity,” remarked Laura.
The pit bull named Sushi became Jameson’s stroke of luck. However, it turns out Sushi needed a little luck of his own. The stray was dumped at Focus on Cumberland County Animal Safety (FOCCAS), an animal rescue in Crossville, Tennessee.
“He’s a very calm dog, but most importantly he wants to please. That’s what he lives for,” said FOCCAS Founding President Jan Hendrixson.
Sushi’s online adoption listing described his potential to be a service dog.
That’s what Laura and Corey Wall were drawn to after a trip to Vanderbilt’s Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital where Jameson responded well to a facility dog named Squid.
But Jameson said he was drawn to something else; “I adopted Sushi because he didn’t have a home.”
Sushi went months without a permanent home. Jameson went even longer.
“After 717 days and 15 court dates, we finalized the adoption in August of 2018,” said Laura. “They both know what it’s like to be homeless. And to not be wanted. But also, they both know what it’s like to have found a family.”
Corey and Laura said Jameson’s family didn’t have the time or resources to help him, so they stepped in when he was just a toddler. She said their shared past makes the connection stronger.
“They share the same story. Both of them didn’t have a safe place to land. Both of them spent a long time waiting for that safe place to land and both of them held on and persevered,” said Laura.
On it’s website, Vanderbilt reports that growing evidence shows animals can have profound effects on patients. “Research shows that human-canine interactions with a gentle, friendly, trained animal have benefits including stabilizing blood pressure, diminishing pain, reducing anxiety and even encouraging communication.”
In July, the Wall family sent Sushi to an animal training program in Georgia, hoping to further enhance his ability to help Jameson. Sushi graduated in August, then accompanied Jameson to an appointment at Vanderbilt. His mom said it’s the first time he hasn’t cried at the hospital.
“We live for this. It’s a rare occurrence to have this kind of adoption. We get chills just talking about it. I can’t imagine a better life for a dog than to have your own kid that you get to take care of. It looks like it’s the perfect fit for Sushi, and we just couldn’t be any happier,” said Hendrixson at FOCCAS.
“What do you think this story is about?” asked Hara. “Is it about not giving up when you luck seems to have run out?” Laura replied, “That, and giving the unlikely a chance.”
Because who knows? It might just lead to a stroke of luck.
“The kid goes through so many struggles so many pokes and sticks. He finally gets a win. He gets to have his best friend with him everyday,” said Laura.
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Commanders’ Robinson says he had surgery after shooting
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. said Monday he underwent surgery a day after being shot in what the NFL team described as an attempted robbery or carjacking.
Robinson posted to social media from a hospital that surgery went well and thanked followers for their prayers, which the team passed along on its official Twitter account. Coach Ron Rivera after practice said doctors have been positive, but added there’s no timeline for Robinson’s return to the football field.
“He was in a really good place,” said Rivera, who visited Robinson at the hospital Sunday night along with owners Dan and Tanya Snyder, team president Jason Wright, running backs coach Randy Jordan and players.
“The doctors were very positive with him, and he was very positive, as well. We’re very fortunate. He’s very fortunate. It was a very unfortunate situation, but he’s doing well and it’ll be a matter of time before he’s back out here.”
A report by District of Columbia police indicated Robinson was shot in one of his legs by two suspects. The 23-year-old former Alabama player was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center with what the team called non-life-threatening injuries.
“It’s sad,” defensive captain and fellow Alabama product Jonathan Allen said. “Young guy. You never want to see something like that happen. By the grace of God, he’s OK. It’s not life-threatening, and he’s going to be OK, so that’s really what’s the most important thing right now.”
Rivera gathered players for a team meeting before practice Monday, 13 days before the start of the regular season. Robinson impressed since Washington drafted him in the third round and looked to have earned a starting job.
“He’s exactly the kind of guy that we want, and he’s exactly the kind of guy that we needed,” Allen said. “We’re really excited about him.”
Rivera wore an orange shirt to signify his support for measures to curb gun violence and spoke about the subject. He said Robinson was in the wrong place at the wrong time just trying to get a meal when the incident happened outside a popular Washington establishment.
The veteran coach, who was watching film of Robinson along with Jordan when he learned what happened, said Robinson “sounded pretty optimistic and positive, considering his circumstances.”
“Everything’s been very positive so far,” Rivera said. “It’s just about the healing process and once he’s well enough to get out on the field, then the doctors will have to clear him, obviously, and then we’ll go from there.”
The concern about Robinson extended beyond Washington to Tuscaloosa, where he played five seasons for Alabama.
“Obviously that’s something that’s really sad,” Crimson Tide quarterback Bryce Young said. “Me individually and us as a team, I think we’re just sending our prayers and our love to B-Rob and his family in a tough time like this.”
Alabama coach Nick Saban said he tried to call before then texting Robinson and relayed similar optimism as Rivera.
“We’re glad that this is not something that is critical to his future or putting his life in jeopardy in the short term,” Saban said.
“He’s doing well relative to the information that we have, even to the point where they think he may be able to come back and play at some point in the season. We’re hopeful for that and keep our fingers crossed.”
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AP reporters Mike Balsalmo and John Zenor contributed.
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‘I freaked out,’ Man wins $300,000 from $10 lottery ticket while visiting friends out of state
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A Georgia man is celebrating his visit to South Carolina after the lottery ticket he happened to buy won him $300,000.
The South Carolina Education Lottery announced the Atlanta native won the prize while visiting friends.
The winner said he stopped at the Lil Cricket in Spartanburg to buy a bottle of water and a $10 lottery ticket, WHNS reports.
According to the winner, he “freaked out” when he saw that he won.
“I ran back in the store and gave the clerk a hug,” the unnamed winner said.
He told lottery officials that his first purchase was a new car for his next trip to South Carolina.
“I’m extremely happy,” he said. “I’ll definitely visit South Carolina more.”
The Lil Cricket store received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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Little League player injured in fall expected to be transferred back to home state
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 3:30 PM EDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
PENNSYLVANIA (CNN) – As the Little League World Series was wrapping up Sunday, one Utah player was continuing his recovery.
Easton Oliverson, 12, was severely injured Aug. 15 when he fell out of a bunk bed in Williamsport, fracturing his skull.
The Instagram account that provides medical updates on his condition showed him eating nachos, his favorite food, Sunday.
His family said Easton has been dealing with “quite a bit of pain” since his latest surgery on Friday.
After a couple of setbacks, the Oliverson family believes Easton should finally be able to transfer back to Utah later this week.
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Planning for big-ticket purchases can save big bucks
Combine sales calendar and tracking apps for best price
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 2:57 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
If you have a big-ticket purchase pending, the experts at the financial website NerdWallet said there are a few things you can do to make it more affordable.
First, shop the biggest sale weekends of the year:
- Memorial Day, July Fourth and Labor Day Weekend are the best times for deals on appliances, furniture, and mattresses.
- Televisions typically see their lowest prices in late January and early February.
Use tools to track prices:
- Amazon Assistant lets you know if Amazon offers a lower price when you’re shopping elsewhere.
- Honey browser extension pulls coupons from across the web.
- Coupon Cabin alerts you to cash back.
Know when your state has a sales tax holiday:
- Tax free categories and length of sales vary so check your state government’s website for details
Slowly build up an emergency fund:
- Helps with an unexpected purchase of an expensive item.
- To start, try to put aside $25 a paycheck.
NerdWallet also has a guide for the best sales items by month.
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In northeast Washington state, a remote region nestled against the Canadian border, the politics lean conservative and wariness of government runs high.
Earlier this year, a Republican-led county commission there made a decision that rippled across Washington — triggering alarm at the secretary of state's office, and now among cybersecurity experts who have worked for the past six years to shore up the security of America's voting systems.
It happened on Valentine's Day during the regular weekly meeting of the three-member commission in Ferry County, where Donald Trump received more than 63% of the vote in the 2020 election.
After an agenda that included an update on the county fair and a discussion about a local water and sewer district, the commissioners took up a proposal to disconnect a recently installed cybersecurity device from the county's computer network.
The device, known as an Albert sensor, was designed to alert local governments to potential hacking attempts against their networks. More than 900 Albert sensors have been deployed across the country, primarily to states and counties, and they have been a key component of the federal government's cybersecurity response following Russian election interference around the 2016 election.
But the commissioners in Ferry County had come to the conclusion that the sensor, which had been provided by the state at no cost, was more of a liability than an asset.
"Let's get rid of it," Commissioner Nathan Davis said before making his motion to remove the device.
The vote in support of the motion was unanimous.
"Bye bye, Albert sensor," one of the commissioners quipped.
Another county in Washington state also disconnected its sensor, and a third decided not to install one. It's an isolated trend in Washington at this point, but one that represents a stark example of how Republican mistrust in elections and government systems more broadly threatens to dismantle bipartisan progress made over the past decade to improve election security.
During the Ferry County meeting, Commissioner Davis quoted from a memo that circulated among Washington state Republicans. That memo, which NPR and the Northwest News Network obtained, raised a number of concerns about Albert sensors and also seemed to allude to the program being part of a left-wing conspiracy.
"Decisions are being made that are hurting the overall security of elections based on lies and untruths," said Matt Masterson, who led election security efforts leading up to 2020 within the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). "It is entirely healthy and appropriate for citizens and elected officials to ask questions about the nature of the technology they use. ... But those conversations have to be based in fact."
An early-warning system
Named after Albert Einstein, the Albert sensor is what's called an "intrusion detection" device that looks out for known bad actors, or malicious IP addresses, on the network it's connected to. When a match is detected, a notification is sent to an around-the-clock security operations center located near Albany, N.Y. There, analysts review the traffic and, if the threat is deemed credible, send an immediate alert to that government warning of a potential hacking attempt.
The program is operated by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), which was founded in 2000 to address emerging cyber threats. While CIS is a nonprofit, it receives federal funding and works closely with CISA, the DHS cybersecurity agency.
The Albert monitoring program first began in 2011 but was ramped up after the 2016 election, following the Russian hacking attempts on a number of different state and local government systems that happened around that time.
It took months for the federal government to notify and distribute information to the relevant local government officials after those attacks.
"There was zero information-sharing going on in the elections realm with relation to cybersecurity until 2016," said Masterson, who added that Albert sensors were a key piece in addressing that problem.
Not only do Albert sensors help individual counties understand the threats they face, they provide a clearer national picture of what's happening online in all the different localities that administer elections in the U.S.
Because of that, Masterson says a county pulling out of the program also hurts that national visibility.
"The less participation, the less broad deployment of Albert sensors — or frankly, to take it out one step further, the less information being shared broadly across the community, the less secure our elections are," he said.
The Albert sensor in Washington's Ferry County was one of hundreds installed on the networks of state and local governments in the runup to the 2020 election.
While voting equipment is not connected to the internet, hackers could still wreak havoc on an election by breaking into a county's network. Once inside, they could freeze or alter websites, affect registration infrastructure, or do other things to harm public confidence in elections.
It's happened before. For example, in October 2020, just before the general election, a ransomware attack on Hall County, Ga., temporarily took down election-related systems, including a voter signature database.
"Hall County was in a precarious spot and you don't want to be in a precarious spot," said David Levine, a former election official who's now with the nonpartisan Alliance For Securing Democracy.
In an average month, CIS says it investigates more than 25,000 Albert sensor alerts.
"The analogy that I often use here is that we don't ask the county sheriff to be responsible for repelling military invasions, but that is really the equivalent of what they're up against on the internet," said Matt Blaze, a cybersecurity expert at Georgetown University who is not associated with the Albert program or CIS.
But in some Republican parts of Washington, the sensor came to be seen not as an insurance policy against hackers, but as a device that should be viewed with suspicion — a form of "big brother" watching over everything on a county's network.
'Didn't do a damn thing'
Directly south of Ferry County is Lincoln County, a deeply conservative wheat farming community.
In late 2021, Lincoln County commissioners terminated their agreement for an Albert sensor, just 13 months after it was signed, deciding the device was more of a liability than a safeguard. Their skepticism was rooted in the fact that shortly after the sensor was installed, the county fell victim to a crippling ransomware attack.
"This Albert sensor didn't do a damn thing about it," said Lincoln County Commissioner Rob Coffman, a Republican. "It didn't function as it was advertised."
CIS said that while Albert sensors can detect ransomware attacks, they're not foolproof because the program only recognizes known hostile addresses in a rapidly shifting threat landscape.
Blaze, of Georgetown University, said the ransomware attack should've been further evidence for the county that the Albert sensor was a good thing to have.
"The fact that state and local networks are often victimized by this type of attack is an example why you need defenses like this," Blaze said.
After the ransomware attack, Lincoln County beefed up its cybersecurity protections, but Coffman also began doing research about the Albert sensor. He said he learned that his county's information technology director had been wary of installing the device, but felt pressure from the state to do so. Coffman said he also talked to the IT director in neighboring Grant County, who had declined to install an Albert sensor out of concern that it could be a point of weakness for his network.
CIS responded that it has specific recommendations about how to deploy an Albert sensor on a network to allay those concerns.
Suspicion catches on
As part of his research, Coffman said he also started looking into CIS and learned that in 2018 the organization briefly partnered with another nonprofit that the conservative website Influence Watch said was connected with "left-leaning social welfare" groups.
It was enough to add fuel to a brewing conspiracy.
Coffman said he shared his findings with members of the Lincoln County Republican Party. Months later, in February 2022, the county GOP chair, Mary Blechschmidt, issued a two-page memo about Albert sensors to her fellow county Republican chairs.
In her memo, Blechschmidt wrote: "I continue to press on this issue because it is hard to imagine why a county would allow a non-profit organization such as this, access to the proprietary data on its network, 24/7 across the internet."
In an interview, Blechschmidt, who said she believes the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, rejected the suggestion that she was spreading misinformation about Albert sensors.
"We're trying to keep outside influences out of our data and we took the time to research it and determined that we don't want it and we don't need it," Blechschmidt said of the Albert sensor.
Also in the memo, Blechschmidt tried to tie CIS to the left by, among other things, citing a CIS co-founder's stints in the Clinton and Obama administrations. But the Albert sensor program was significantly ramped up under the Trump administration.
"We've had a long track record of being nonpartisan and trusted by states and counties all over the country," said Jason Forget, a CIS spokesperson.
Thirteen days after Blechschmidt issued her memo on the Albert sensors, the Ferry County commission voted to remove theirs.
During their discussion, Ferry's commissioners referenced Lincoln County's ransomware event. Davis, the commissioner who led the effort, also voiced concern about what the Albert sensor was capturing and where the county's data was going.
"It's scanning everything we do on our network and it sends it to a third party," Davis said.
Asked to address this concern, Geoff Hale, who leads the election security initiative for CISA, said Albert sensors passively monitor for potential trouble and don't have unfettered access to a client's data.
"It's almost like seeing a license plate to a car," Hale said. "And so this sensor is looking at all the traffic that passes. And if one of those license plates, one of those signatures, matches up to known bad infrastructure, it sends you an alert."
A 'misinformation campaign'
Word of Ferry County's decision to remove its Albert sensor soon reached Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, a Democrat, in Olympia, Wash.
"Immediately it occurred to me this was the start of, perhaps, a misinformation campaign directed at the Albert sensor and I was quite concerned about it," he said.
The secretary of state's office quickly convened a virtual meeting about the Albert sensor program and invited county officials from across the state to attend. Among the speakers at the February meeting was former Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, a Republican who spearheaded the deployment of Albert sensors in the state after the 2016 election. Wyman was appointed to oversee election security efforts for the Biden administration in 2021.
"The Albert sensor program is really a way for us to have one more layer of security and information that we can use to combat people who would do our system harm," Wyman told the counties.
The presentation ended with Hobbs making a direct appeal to skeptical county officials.
"If you do not have an Albert sensor, get the Albert sensor. If you have removed the Albert sensor or are thinking about removing the Albert sensor, please reconsider," Hobbs said.
That plea was not compelling to Ferry County Commissioner Davis, who has a background in IT. He said in an interview that he still has questions about how Albert sensors work, but did not have the time right now to continue researching them.
Davis also said he finds it odd that anyone cares whether his little county, with barely more than 7,000 people, has one or not.
"Why the hard push?" Davis asked. "What are the true motivations to push so hard on something that really doesn't do a lot?"
Davis said he's open to reinstalling the Albert sensor in the future, but would need to have more information before he's willing to do so.
CIS said the counties in Washington are the only ones to disconnect from the Albert program, and Hobbs said he thinks by responding quickly the state succeeded in stopping false narratives about the sensors from spreading.
Nationwide, Albert sensors still seem to have basically unanimous support. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Trump-endorsed Republican, mentioned them during a congressional hearing this summer.
"If you don't have [Albert sensors] at your county boards of elections you should do that," LaRose said. "So that way if something goes wrong on a Saturday night or Sunday morning, you can know about it before everyone comes back to work on Monday and you can mitigate the problem right then and there."
The vast majority of Washington's 39 counties have also embraced the program. In a series of interviews, county auditors, both Democrats and Republicans from small and big counties, praised the program and said they feel better knowing their county has an Albert sensor.
"We put it on and it's been working great," said Charles Ross, the Republican auditor in south central Washington's Yakima County. "It hasn't caused any problems."
Julie Wise, the nonpartisan director of elections in King County, the state's most populous, said the Albert sensor is "another data point" to help keep elections secure. She called efforts to undermine the Albert program part of a concerning pattern.
"This appears to be just another iteration of misinformation to discredit elections, like we've seen with ballot drop boxes, vote by mail and now it's Albert sensors," Wise said.
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Even with the upgraded 988 mental health hotline, there are still some callers who need to be connected with in-person services. In rural areas especially, those resources remain few and far between.
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Even with the upgraded 988 mental health hotline, there are still some callers who need to be connected with in-person services. In rural areas especially, those resources remain few and far between.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Farah Naureen, Mercy Corps' country director for Pakistan, about relief efforts in the region after catastrophic flooding.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Farah Naureen, Mercy Corps' country director for Pakistan, about relief efforts in the region after catastrophic flooding.
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Millions of Germans are worried about efforts to wean the country off of Russian natural gas and possibly not having heat this winter. But energy experts say German industry should be more concerned.
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Millions of Germans are worried about efforts to wean the country off of Russian natural gas and possibly not having heat this winter. But energy experts say German industry should be more concerned.
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It has been a year since the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. Some of the United States' strongest allies were vocal in their criticism, but how do they view the U.S. today?
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It has been a year since the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. Some of the United States' strongest allies were vocal in their criticism, but how do they view the U.S. today?
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Phoenix is seeing an alarming rise in people with skin burns from falling on hot pavement. Elderly people usually make up the small number of cases, but unhoused people account for much of the surge.
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Phoenix is seeing an alarming rise in people with skin burns from falling on hot pavement. Elderly people usually make up the small number of cases, but unhoused people account for much of the surge.
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A new Harvard/NPR poll notes that fear is a rising reality among people of color. Americans of color were more likely than white Americans to say they feared being threatened or physically attacked.
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A new Harvard/NPR poll notes that fear is a rising reality among people of color. Americans of color were more likely than white Americans to say they feared being threatened or physically attacked.
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Democrat Beto O’Rourke will hold two virtual campaign events Monday after pausing in-person rallies due to an illness that required a brief visit to the hospital last week.
O’Rourke became ill Friday and was later diagnosed with a bacterial infection at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where he was administered antibiotics and told to rest, his campaign said in a statement Sunday.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” O’Rourke said in a statement. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road as soon as I am able.”
O’Rourke, a former Congressman from El Paso who is challenging Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, was in the middle of his Drive for Texas campaign — a multi-week, 5,600-mile trek across the state – that kicked off in El Paso last month. It’s unclear when he’ll return to live events.
The events Monday include the virtual launch of the Latinos Con Beto Coalition, that will include famed labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta and Texas-born actress and activist Eva Longoria. Later, O’Rourke will speak during the virtual launch of the Black Texans for Beto coalition.
A poll conducted by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler earlier this month showed O’Rourke trailing Abbott by 7 percentage points.
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7-year-old girl killed by 400-pound stone statue at hotel while on European vacation
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 4:56 PM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
BERLIN (AP) — A girl who was on vacation from Italy with her parents has died after a stone statue fell on her at a hotel in Munich, German police said Sunday.
The 7-year-old was hit by the roughly 440-pound statue in the courtyard of the hotel on Friday evening, police said. People at the scene were able to free the child and call emergency services, but she died later at a Munich hospital.
It wasn’t clear why the statue toppled over. Police said an investigation was ongoing.
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‘Appalachia Rises: Come Hell or High Water’ flood relief telethon partners with Gray TV stations
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT/Gray News) - On the one month anniversary of the deadly flooding that swept through several Eastern Kentucky counties, musicians from across Kentucky and the country are joining together to raise funds for those affected.
On Monday, Eastern Kentucky natives Halfway to Hazard, Tyler Booth and Taylor Austin Dye will join T. Graham Brown at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg for the ‘Appalachia Rises: Come Hell or High Water’ flood relief telethon. The fundraiser is being shown live online in a partnership with Gray Television stations WYMT in Hazard, Kentucky, WKYT in Lexington, and WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia., as part of their work to assist in relief efforts.
Other big names like Trace Adkins, Dillion Carmichael, Lee Greenwood and Tracy Lawrence, along with Kentucky favorites John Michael Montgomery, Walker Montgomery, JD Shelburne and Wynonna Judd, have committed their time and support to the event.
All of the proceeds of the event will go to the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. For more information, or to donate online, please visit the Flood Relief section of WYMT’s website.
At least 39 people have died as a result of the flooding that devastated multiple counties July 29. Hundreds more were displaced from their homes.
“We are proud to partner once again with our friends in country music to aid those impacted by this devastating flood. Money raised during this benefit telethon will be used to help Eastern Kentuckians rebuild. We know this is going to be a long process, and we want to do everything we can to help our neighbors,” WYMT General Manager Neil Middleton said.
T. Graham Brown has taken the lyrics to his song “Hell and High Water” and helped create the “Come Hell Or High Water” T-shirt, which is an outline of the Kentucky Commonwealth punctuated by the words Kentucky Strong! Those can be ordered here.
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Atlanta prosecutor: Gang targeted celebrities, influencers
ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor on Monday announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she said is a violent street gang that has been targeting the Atlanta area homes of famous athletes, entertainers and others who flaunt expensive possessions on social media.
Singer Mariah Carey, Marlo Hampton of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Atlanta United player Brad Guzan and the Atlanta Falcons’ Calvin Ridley all had their homes broken into, the indictment says. The 220-count indictment was filed Aug. 22 and charges 26 people, most of whom are accused of violating Georgia’s anti-gang and racketeering laws.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the crimes alleged in the indictment — carjacking, kidnapping, armed robbery, shootings, home invasions — were committed by members of the Drug Rich gang, which she said began to emerge in 2016 in a neighboring county. In addition to the celebrity targets, social media influencers were also victimized in home invasions and burglaries, Willis said.
“What they do is target people who show their wealth on social media,” she said. “So I do have a message for the public: Where it is kind of fun to put your things on social media and show off, unfortunately these gangs are becoming more savvy, more sophisticated in the way that they target you.”
But Willis also had a message for the alleged gang members: “If you thought Fulton was a good county to bring your crime to, to bring your violence to, you are wrong and you are going suffer consequences and today is the start of some of those consequences.”
Willis said the indictment, filed last week, represented a collaboration between different law enforcement agencies working together. Cracking down on gangs is a priority for Willis, and she said she intends to pursue tough penalties for people involved with violent gang activity.
“I am not going to negotiate with gang members. I am not going to allow pleas,” she said. “We are going to find you, we are going to convict you and we’re going to send you to the prison for the rest of your days, and I’m not apologizing for that.”
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Biden calls Afghan war vets ahead of withdrawal anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who have fled from the country on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden spoke to the leaders of the veterans-led #AfghanEvac and Honor the Promise groups to express his appreciation for their work resettling Afghan allies in the United States since the U.S. ended the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
“They discussed the substantial efforts that have been undertaken by the U.S. government, veterans, and by so many Americans of all stripes to welcome nearly 90,000 Afghans to our country over the past year and the U.S. government’s ongoing efforts to build a sustainable model to support relocation efforts and honor our commitments,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
Tuesday marks the one year anniversary of Biden declaring an end to the war. The final weeks of America’s longest war were chaotic as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 13 U.S. troops and 170 others, and thousands of desperate Afghans descended on Kabul’s airport in search of a way out before the final U.S. cargo planes departed.
Biden continues to face criticism from immigrant refugee advocates that the administration has fallen short in resettling Afghans who assisted the U.S. war effort.
As of last month, more than 74,000 Afghan applicants remained in the pipeline for special immigrant visas that help military interpreters and others who worked on government-funded contracts move to the United States and pave the way for them to receive a green card. That total counts only the principal applicant and does not include spouses and children. More than 17,000 of that pool of applicants had received a critical chief of mission approval, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Monday.
John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said the administration is continuing efforts to approve the visa process.
“We understand the frustration by many,” Kirby said. “Quite frankly, we share that frustration and we try as hard as we can to to streamline the process.”
Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and founder of #AfghanEvac,” said on Twitter after his call with Biden that he was “glad to hear him say that this issue matters to him and that he recognizes the impact this has had on #Afghans, our volunteers, and the world.”
Days after the unexpected fall of Kabul last year, national security adviser Jake Sullivan promised the White House would “conduct an extensive hot wash” and “look at every aspect” of the withdrawal from top to bottom.” The administration has not said when the review might be released to the public.
Biden last week issued a statement honoring 13 U.S. troops who were killed in the final days of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan at Kabul International Airport as they assisted with the evacuation of Afghans who assisted the American war effort.
Jean-Pierre said she did not have any details on how Biden would mark Tuesday’s anniversary. The president is scheduled to travel to Wilkes Barre, Pa., on Tuesday to deliver a speech on his efforts to reduce gun crime in the U.S.
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Associated Press White House correspondent Zeke Miller contributed reporting.
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Cold front brings storms on Tuesday
Hot and humid to start the week
MONDAY: Partly cloudy into the evening with a few isolated showers or a storm. Most of this will be in our West Virginia locations but one is still possible in the Valley before about 11pm. A very warm evening with temperatures falling into the 80s. Mostly clear to partly cloudy and still muggy. Areas of patchy haze or fog late. Warm, overnight lows in the mid to upper 60s.
TUESDAY: Mainly sunny and warm to start with temperatures rising into the 70s. Increasing clouds, hot and humid with highs in the upper 80s. The only reason we likely won’t see highs hitting 90 is the cloud cover and storm timing.
A line or broken line of storms move in from west to east. Start time for our West Virginia locations between about 12-2pm. For the Valley about 1-3pm.
A few showers and storms cannot be ruled out for the evening into the early part of the overnight. Warm and somewhat humid overnight with lows in the low to mid 60s.
WEDNESDAY: A mix of sun and clouds to start the day and warm with temperatures rising into the 70s. Some clouds for the afternoon and very warm. A beautiful day and comfortable with highs in the low to mid 80s. Warm for the evening with temperatures falling into the 70s. Clear skies for the evening and overnight and pleasant with overnight lows in the mid to upper 50s.
THURSDAY: Plenty of sunshine to start the day and a refreshing start with temperatures rising into the 60s. Lots of sun throughout the day and very warm. A beautiful day and very pleasant with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s and lower humidity. A warm evening with temperatures falling into the 70s under clear skies. A beautiful and clear night, pleasant with lows in the mid to upper 50s.
FRIDAY: Plenty of sunshine to start the day and mild with temperatures rising into the 60s. A pleasant and beautiful day. Very warm with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Some clouds for the evening and overnight with lows in the mid to upper 50s.
SATURDAY: More clouds than sun to start the day and warm with temperatures quickly rising into the 70s. Mostly cloudy and comfortable for the afternoon. Very warm with highs in the low to mid 80s. Overnight lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
SUNDAY: A mild start with temperatures rising into the 60s and a good amount of sunshine. A mix of sun and clouds for the day and very warm with highs in the low to mid 80s. A very warm evening with temperatures falling into the 70s and overnight lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
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‘I freaked out,’ Man wins $300,000 from $10 lottery ticket while visiting friends out of state
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A Georgia man is celebrating his visit to South Carolina after the lottery ticket he happened to buy won him $300,000.
The South Carolina Education Lottery announced the Atlanta native won the prize while visiting friends.
The winner said he stopped at the Lil Cricket in Spartanburg to buy a bottle of water and a $10 lottery ticket, WHNS reports.
According to the winner, he “freaked out” when he saw that he won.
“I ran back in the store and gave the clerk a hug,” the unnamed winner said.
He told lottery officials that his first purchase was a new car for his next trip to South Carolina.
“I’m extremely happy,” he said. “I’ll definitely visit South Carolina more.”
The Lil Cricket store received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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JMU volleyball sweeps season-opening weekend
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - JMU volleyball swept its first three games at home to open the 2022 season.
On Friday, JMU defeated UAlbany 3-1 (25-15, 21-25, 25-18, 25-17). Junior Miette Veldman led the Dukes with 16 kills, while freshman Brenya Reid notched 15 kills. Senior Caroline Dozier recorded 47 assists.
The Dukes won a doubleheader on Saturday. In the morning, they powered past Robert Morris in straight sets 3-0 (25-14, 25-21, 25-10). Veldman had 15 kills while Dozier notched 29 assists. JMU beat Kent State in the evening 3-2 (25-20, 31-29, 20-25, 23-25, 15-4). Veldman recorded 32 kills while Dozier had 38 assists. Veldman was named the MVP of the invitational.
JMU returns to the court on Thursday when they face Florida State in Tallahassee.
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RAM needs volunteers for November clinic in Augusta County
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Remote Area Medical (RAM) is looking for volunteer medical, vision, and dental professionals, as well as general support staff for its 2-day pop-up clinic coming to the Augusta Expo Center on Nov. 19 and 20.
General support volunteers will help with set up and take down, overnight parking, and greeting patients. Interpreters are also needed to help patients through the process, either in the parking lot or during clinic operations.
Services available at the RAM free clinic include dental cleanings, dental fillings, dental extractions, dental X-rays, eye exams, glaucoma testing, eyeglass prescriptions, eyeglasses made on-site, women’s health exams, and general medical exams. Free, take-home colon cancer screening test kits will also be available.
If you or your organization would like to volunteer your time to help provide free healthcare services to the Fishersville community, visit the RAM website or call (865) 579-1530.
Since its foundation in 1985, nearly 183,000 volunteers, made up of licensed dental, vision, medical, and veterinary professionals, as well as general support staff, have supported RAM’s mission.
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Target’s car seat trade-in event is coming back soon
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 4:44 PM EDT|Updated: moments ago
(Gray News) - Target’s biannual car seat trade-in event is coming soon.
From Sept. 11-24, you can bring an old, expired, or damaged car seat to Target and receive a 20% coupon for a new car seat, stroller, or select baby gear. The coupon can be redeemed through Oct. 8.
Materials from the old car seats will be recycled by Target’s partner, Waste Management, to create new products such as plastic buckets, steel beams, and carpet padding.
The biannual trade-in event has seen 1.97 million car seats recycled since 2016, resulting in 29.6 million pounds of recycled material.
Target said the event is one way the company is working toward its goal of zero waste in U.S. operations by 2030.
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Vegan mom gets life in prison for starvation death of son
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Sheila O’Leary, 38, whose family followed a strict vegan diet, was convicted in June on six charges — first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect — in the death of Ezra O’Leary. Her sentencing in Lee County, Florida, had previously been postponed four times.
Her husband, Ryan Patrick O’Leary, remains in jail while awaiting trial on the same charges. Investigators said the couple told them the family ate only raw fruits and vegetables, although the toddler also was fed breast milk. The 18-month-old boy weighed 17 pounds and was the size of a 7-month-old baby when he died in September 2019, a police report said.
The Cape Coral couple had two other children, ages 3 and 5, who also were malnourished, investigators said. A fourth child had been returned to her biological father during an earlier malnutrition case in Virginia, court records show.
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Updated August 29, 2022 at 4:52 PM ET
Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke said Sunday he is taking a break from the campaign trail after contracting a bacterial infection and will hold two virtual campaign events Monday.
O'Rourke said he began feeling sick on Friday and was diagnosed with the infection at the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where he received antibiotics.
"While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors' recommendations," he tweeted Sunday.
O'Rourke, who is running against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the November election, said he will have to postpone some events due to his illness, but will be back on the campaign trail as soon as possible.
O'Rourke recently made headlines while on the campaign trail in North Texas when he swore at a heckler during a campaign rally. He was speaking to a crowd in Mineral Wells, Texas, about the mass shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, when a member in the audience began to laugh, NPR member station Houston Public Media reported.
O'Rourke quickly spun around and pointed at the heckler and said, "It may be funny to you, motherf*****, but it's not funny to me, OK."
The crowd immediately began cheering in support of O'Rourke's snappy interjection.
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Even with the upgraded 988 mental health hotline, there are still some callers who need to be connected with in-person services. In rural areas especially, those resources remain few and far between.
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Even with the upgraded 988 mental health hotline, there are still some callers who need to be connected with in-person services. In rural areas especially, those resources remain few and far between.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Farah Naureen, Mercy Corps' country director for Pakistan, about relief efforts in the region after catastrophic flooding.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Farah Naureen, Mercy Corps' country director for Pakistan, about relief efforts in the region after catastrophic flooding.
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As the U.S. Open began Monday in New York, tennis fans tuned into what could be Serena Williams' final matches. The tennis icon hinted she might retire after this year's tournament.
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As the U.S. Open began Monday in New York, tennis fans tuned into what could be Serena Williams' final matches. The tennis icon hinted she might retire after this year's tournament.
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Millions of Germans are worried about efforts to wean the country off of Russian natural gas and possibly not having heat this winter. But energy experts say German industry should be more concerned.
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Millions of Germans are worried about efforts to wean the country off of Russian natural gas and possibly not having heat this winter. But energy experts say German industry should be more concerned.
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The drummer Antonio Sanchez has an alter ego, born out of something Donald Trump said in 2016. As Sanchez remembers in an interview with All Things Considered: "The phrase was, 'We have some bad hombres here and we have to get them out.' "
At first, Sanchez simply needed an outlet for the anxiety of that political moment – luckily, playing drums fit the bill nicely. But that percussive therapy then turned into an album, to twist Trump's pejorative "into something positive," he explains of the first volume of his Bad Hombre project, released in 2017.
"I started kind of realizing that I had all this power down there in my studio and I could do things as if I was a mad scientist in my laboratory. And it was so liberating that of course I wanted to keep doing music this way – and that's how Shift was born."
Shift is the name of a new album Sanchez released this past Friday with the subtitle Bad Hombre Vol. II. This time, Sanchez — a Grammy-winning jazz drummer behind the score of the lauded film Birdman - — reached out to artists in other genres to re-imagine their work. That effort was a resounding success, ending up with Signal featuring guest turns from fellow Grammy winners Trent Reznor, Dave Matthews, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kimbra, Lila Downs and Rodrigo y Gabriela, among many others.
"I'm the least-famous person in the whole record," Sanchez says with a laugh. It's a list that also includes his own 97-year-old grandfather, the renowned actor Ignacio López Tarso, who he asked to serve as the album's master of ceremonies.
"It's amazing for me to have my grandfather's voice in the beginning and at the end, just thanking everyone for their presence."
To listen to the complete conversation, use the audio player at the top of this page.
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Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-29/how-climate-change-could-be-impacting-pathogenic-diseases | 2022-08-29T21:44:47Z |
It has been a year since the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. Some of the United States' strongest allies were vocal in their criticism, but how do they view the U.S. today?
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It has been a year since the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. Some of the United States' strongest allies were vocal in their criticism, but how do they view the U.S. today?
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Phoenix is seeing an alarming rise in people with skin burns from falling on hot pavement. Elderly people usually make up the small number of cases, but unhoused people account for much of the surge.
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Phoenix is seeing an alarming rise in people with skin burns from falling on hot pavement. Elderly people usually make up the small number of cases, but unhoused people account for much of the surge.
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A new Harvard/NPR poll notes that fear is a rising reality among people of color. Americans of color were more likely than white Americans to say they feared being threatened or physically attacked.
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A new Harvard/NPR poll notes that fear is a rising reality among people of color. Americans of color were more likely than white Americans to say they feared being threatened or physically attacked.
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NASA scrubbed its Artemis I test flight to the moon due to engine issues but will try again Friday. The flight is uncrewed but NASA hopes to send people back to the moon on future flights.
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NASA scrubbed its Artemis I test flight to the moon due to engine issues but will try again Friday. The flight is uncrewed but NASA hopes to send people back to the moon on future flights.
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The Ukrainian military says it has begun a counteroffensive in the country's south to take back key territory occupied by the Russians early in the war.
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The Ukrainian military says it has begun a counteroffensive in the country's south to take back key territory occupied by the Russians early in the war.
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DEER VALLEY, UTAH -- Carolyn Parton and Jesse Love were married August 13, 2022 at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah.
Reverend Anita Gordon officiated the double ring ceremony.
DEER VALLEY, UTAH -- Carolyn Parton and Jesse Love were married August 13, 2022 at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah.
Reverend Anita Gordon officiated the double ring ceremony.
The bride was given in marriage by her father, Robert Parton.
Hailey Collins, friend of the bride, was the maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Kirstin Valcic; Jessica Hunt; Chloe Love, sister of the groom; and Kathryn Parton, sister-in-law of the bride. The flower girls were Lily and Claire Parton, nieces of the bride.
Seth Edeen, friend of the groom, was the best man. The groomsmen were Patrick Cunningham, Jimmy Brady, Chase Lambson, and Ty Haden, all friends of the groom.
The bride’s A-line gown, designed by Eddy K of Milan, Italy, featured a square cut dropped back. The double-waisted dress designed in ivory and champaign featured crystal beading along with floral appliques. She wore the pearl earrings and necklace that were her great-grandmother’s and had been worn by the bride’s mother on her wedding day. The bride carried a bouquet with blush peonies, bridal spirit roses, white and pink O’Hara garden roses, white majolica spray roses, with Israeli and Italian ruscus. The bouquet was finished with a white satin ribbon.
The groom and his groomsmen wore grey three-piece suits with blue ties and pocket squares, which coordinated with the bride’s chosen color accents. The groom’s boutonniere consisted of a white spray rose and blue thistle.
A cocktail hour and dinner reception followed at the Stein Eriksen ballroom. Christopher Parton, brother of the bride sang “Hey Pretty Girl” for the bride and groom’s first dance.
Following the wedding, the bride and groom traveled to the Bahamas for their honeymoon.
The bride is the daughter of Robert and Janelle Parton of Rock Springs, Wyoming. She is a 2012 graduate of Rock Springs High School and a 2018 graduate of the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy. The bride is currently employed as an oncology clinical pharmacist at Optum Specialty Pharmacy in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The groom is the son of Jim and Michal Love of Rock Springs, Wyoming. He is a 2010 graduate of Rock Springs High School. He graduated from Weber State University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in sales, and earned his master’s degree in counseling from the University of Wyoming in 2019. The groom is currently employed as a school counselor at Freemont Junior High School in the Mesa Public Schools district.
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Mark William O’Donnell, 23, a current Rock Springs resident and former resident of Kemmerer, is facing one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography.
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ROCK SPRINGS — A former resident from Kemmerer was arrested for possession of child pornography on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 17, in Rock Springs.
According to Jason Mower, public information officer from the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, the case has now been forwarded to the county attorney’s office for review.
Mower stated, “The suspect is identified as Mark William O’Donnell, 23, originally of Kemmerer and is now residing in Rock Springs. He is facing one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography.”
O’Donnell was released from the detention center on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, on a $50,000 surety bond. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21.
Mower stated that no children were living with him at his residence at the time of his arrest.
“We have similar cases under active investigation as that’s why we have a dedicated detective assigned to the ICAC team,” said Mower.
Previously, the Rocket Miner reported that on Wednesday, Aug. 17, a Rock Springs man was arrested for possession of child pornography, confirmed by Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, Aug. 24.
According to Mower, one of the detectives was assigned as an affiliate with the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, as well as their Computer Crime Team (CCT).
“This particular case remains under active investigation by the ICAC and CCT teams, so we’re not yet at liberty to discuss the specific details or the suspect’s identity until officially arraigned in district court, or unless advised otherwise by DCI,” Mower stated to the Rocket Miner on Aug. 24.
As to how these individuals acquire these pornographic materials, Mower mentioned, that the possession and distribution of child pornography are largely technology-facilitated over the world wide web and other mobile-device-based software and applications.
“The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) actively monitors form of child exploitation, often receiving and filtering tips from a network of third parties to the appropriate investigative authorities, and these investigations typically involve a variety of different local, state and federal authorities who all work cooperatively together. Continued advancements in technology make it increasingly difficult for the average person to send anything truly anonymously over the internet,” he stated.
The Rocket Miner is monitoring this case and will provide further information as more develops. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/update-odonnell-23-arrested-for-child-pornography/article_dcc2ecac-27c4-11ed-a833-b799be5d879a.html | 2022-08-29T21:56:49Z |
GREEN RIVER – The Green River High School Wolves lost their season and home opener on Friday, Aug. 26, to the school from Uintah, Utah, 42-7.
After the game, Green River head coach Kevin Cuthberson showed his displeasure with the Wolves’ performance, but was understanding that it was his team’s first game compared to his opponent’s third.
We did some good things and we did some things that we need to improve on. At the end of the day, we just need to get better. We made some first-game mistakes,” said Cuthberson, adding that the squad and coaching staff will study film and execute better in their next game against Lander High School on Friday, Sept. 2.
Around the 7:57 marker in the first quarter, the Wolves got their only touchdown of the game when senior running back Jackson Mitchell charged through the defense from the 2-yard line.
A big gain set up the scoring play. Green River senior quarterback Caleb Lake found wide receiver Skyler Lee for a big chunk of yardage.
The school from Uintah, Utah, controlled the remainder of the game en route to the blowout victory.
The Wolves showed flashes of excellence, however, especially in the running game, which features senior running back Bracken Miller.
Cuthberson said that Miller will be the focal point of the offense this season.
“Bracken did some good things for us,” he said after the game. “He’s our workhorse.”
The Wolves are scheduled to play Lander at home on Friday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/wolves-drop-season-opener-to-uintah-utah/article_85e6effa-27c9-11ed-a49a-3bd7ff19c78f.html | 2022-08-29T21:56:56Z |
7-year-old girl killed by 400-pound stone statue at hotel while on European vacation
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 4:56 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BERLIN (AP) — A girl who was on vacation from Italy with her parents has died after a stone statue fell on her at a hotel in Munich, German police said Sunday.
The 7-year-old was hit by the roughly 440-pound statue in the courtyard of the hotel on Friday evening, police said. People at the scene were able to free the child and call emergency services, but she died later at a Munich hospital.
It wasn’t clear why the statue toppled over. Police said an investigation was ongoing.
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‘Appalachia Rises: Come Hell or High Water’ flood relief telethon partners with Gray TV stations
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT/Gray News) - On the one month anniversary of the deadly flooding that swept through several Eastern Kentucky counties, musicians from across Kentucky and the country are joining together to raise funds for those affected.
On Monday, Eastern Kentucky natives Halfway to Hazard, Tyler Booth and Taylor Austin Dye will join T. Graham Brown at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg for the ‘Appalachia Rises: Come Hell or High Water’ flood relief telethon. The fundraiser is being shown live online in a partnership with Gray Television stations WYMT in Hazard, Kentucky, WKYT in Lexington, and WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia., as part of their work to assist in relief efforts.
Other big names like Trace Adkins, Dillion Carmichael, Lee Greenwood and Tracy Lawrence, along with Kentucky favorites John Michael Montgomery, Walker Montgomery, JD Shelburne and Wynonna Judd, have committed their time and support to the event.
All of the proceeds of the event will go to the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. For more information, or to donate online, please visit the Flood Relief section of WYMT’s website.
At least 39 people have died as a result of the flooding that devastated multiple counties July 29. Hundreds more were displaced from their homes.
“We are proud to partner once again with our friends in country music to aid those impacted by this devastating flood. Money raised during this benefit telethon will be used to help Eastern Kentuckians rebuild. We know this is going to be a long process, and we want to do everything we can to help our neighbors,” WYMT General Manager Neil Middleton said.
T. Graham Brown has taken the lyrics to his song “Hell and High Water” and helped create the “Come Hell Or High Water” T-shirt, which is an outline of the Kentucky Commonwealth punctuated by the words Kentucky Strong! Those can be ordered here.
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Atlanta prosecutor: Gang targeted celebrities, influencers
ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor on Monday announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she said is a violent street gang that has been targeting the Atlanta area homes of famous athletes, entertainers and others who flaunt expensive possessions on social media.
Singer Mariah Carey, Marlo Hampton of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Atlanta United player Brad Guzan and the Atlanta Falcons’ Calvin Ridley all had their homes broken into, the indictment says. The 220-count indictment was filed Aug. 22 and charges 26 people, most of whom are accused of violating Georgia’s anti-gang and racketeering laws.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the crimes alleged in the indictment — carjacking, kidnapping, armed robbery, shootings, home invasions — were committed by members of the Drug Rich gang, which she said began to emerge in 2016 in a neighboring county. In addition to the celebrity targets, social media influencers were also victimized in home invasions and burglaries, Willis said.
“What they do is target people who show their wealth on social media,” she said. “So I do have a message for the public: Where it is kind of fun to put your things on social media and show off, unfortunately these gangs are becoming more savvy, more sophisticated in the way that they target you.”
But Willis also had a message for the alleged gang members: “If you thought Fulton was a good county to bring your crime to, to bring your violence to, you are wrong and you are going suffer consequences and today is the start of some of those consequences.”
Willis said the indictment, filed last week, represented a collaboration between different law enforcement agencies working together. Cracking down on gangs is a priority for Willis, and she said she intends to pursue tough penalties for people involved with violent gang activity.
“I am not going to negotiate with gang members. I am not going to allow pleas,” she said. “We are going to find you, we are going to convict you and we’re going to send you to the prison for the rest of your days, and I’m not apologizing for that.”
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Biden calls Afghan war vets ahead of withdrawal anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who have fled from the country on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden spoke to the leaders of the veterans-led #AfghanEvac and Honor the Promise groups to express his appreciation for their work resettling Afghan allies in the United States since the U.S. ended the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
“They discussed the substantial efforts that have been undertaken by the U.S. government, veterans, and by so many Americans of all stripes to welcome nearly 90,000 Afghans to our country over the past year and the U.S. government’s ongoing efforts to build a sustainable model to support relocation efforts and honor our commitments,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
Tuesday marks the one year anniversary of Biden declaring an end to the war. The final weeks of America’s longest war were chaotic as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 13 U.S. troops and 170 others, and thousands of desperate Afghans descended on Kabul’s airport in search of a way out before the final U.S. cargo planes departed.
Biden continues to face criticism from immigrant refugee advocates that the administration has fallen short in resettling Afghans who assisted the U.S. war effort.
As of last month, more than 74,000 Afghan applicants remained in the pipeline for special immigrant visas that help military interpreters and others who worked on government-funded contracts move to the United States and pave the way for them to receive a green card. That total counts only the principal applicant and does not include spouses and children. More than 17,000 of that pool of applicants had received a critical chief of mission approval, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Monday.
John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said the administration is continuing efforts to approve the visa process.
“We understand the frustration by many,” Kirby said. “Quite frankly, we share that frustration and we try as hard as we can to to streamline the process.”
Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and founder of #AfghanEvac,” said on Twitter after his call with Biden that he was “glad to hear him say that this issue matters to him and that he recognizes the impact this has had on #Afghans, our volunteers, and the world.”
Days after the unexpected fall of Kabul last year, national security adviser Jake Sullivan promised the White House would “conduct an extensive hot wash” and “look at every aspect” of the withdrawal from top to bottom.” The administration has not said when the review might be released to the public.
Biden last week issued a statement honoring 13 U.S. troops who were killed in the final days of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan at Kabul International Airport as they assisted with the evacuation of Afghans who assisted the American war effort.
Jean-Pierre said she did not have any details on how Biden would mark Tuesday’s anniversary. The president is scheduled to travel to Wilkes Barre, Pa., on Tuesday to deliver a speech on his efforts to reduce gun crime in the U.S.
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Associated Press White House correspondent Zeke Miller contributed reporting.
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Biden to deliver prime-time speech on ‘battle’ for democracy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time address “on the continued battle for the soul of the nation” Thursday outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the White House announced Monday.
Billed as a major address just over two months before the midterm elections, Biden, the White House said, will discuss how the nation’s standing in the world and its democracy are at stake.
“He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack,” the White House said. “And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy.”
Biden has increasingly sought to portray the November elections as a choice for voters between “ultra-MAGA Republicans” — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — and Democrats. He told supporters last week that they had “to vote to literally save democracy once again” — and labeled some Republican ideology as “semi-fascism.”
NBC News was first to report on Biden’s plans for the address.
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President heads to Pennsylvania with plan to ban assault weapons & help police
The Biden administration’s plan would pump billions of dollars into gun violence prevention and funding for law enforcement.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden heads to Wilkes-Barre tomorrow as he promotes his ‘Safer America Plan’ that seeks to crack down on gun violence and funnel more funding into police.
It entails what the White House calls ‘commonsense gun laws’ such as required background checks for all gun sales, a ban on assault weapons, and a ban on high-capacity magazines. The Biden administration says those are “weapons of war that have no place in our communities.”
“Banning assault weapons is bipartisan all across the country. The only place that banning assault weapons is not bipartisan is in the United States Congress. I think that there are families across the country who are seeing the wreckage that assault weapons... are creating in their communities and their kids schools and their grocery stores. And they think that these weapons of war shouldn’t be on the street, and they are calling on their members of Congress to stand with them and their families and their kids. Not special interests like the National Rifle Association,” said Kate Berner, a White House spokesperson.
The plan would provid funding for police training, expanded task forces, and more technology. It would also boost community services that seek to curb the root causes of gun violence.
Read what the Safer America Plan would do here.
“His plan is to fund the police, to put more officers out on the beat, working in their communities. The American Rescue Plan provided resources for states and cities to hire new officers to train them... new equipment. Every single Republican in Congress voted against that. He’s going to talk about his plan to make our community safer from gun violence. This summer, he brought together Republicans and Democrats to sign the bipartisan safer (communities act). It’s the first gun safety reform law in 30 years,” said Berner.
Lars Dalseide of the National Rifle Association said in a statement “any policy that seeks to address the Joe Biden crime crisis raging through our country must begin with a focus on taking violent criminals off the streets. Unfortunately, Biden’s Justice Department allows criminals to roam free throughout Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and other cities large and small without fear of prosecution or punishment. Americans know the no cash bail and the revolving door justice system supported by misguided leaders who are soft-on-crime are the real problem. Instead of focusing his efforts on criminals who commit crimes, the president proposes hollow plans like this that will not stop this violence.”
Yet gun violence advocacy group Giffords Law Center believes the plans investments will save lives.
“This is a really important step forward for federal gun safety policy. As you know, it has not come easy to be able to enact legislation and new laws at the federal level. And, it’s really important that the president has continued to champion this issue,” said Nico Bocour of Giffords. “So, some of the things that we are really excited that this particular plan will do is invest much needed funding into things like community policing and also the hiring and training of 100,000 additional police officers and provide grant programs, $15 billion in grant programs to cities and states, so that they could also similarly provide supportive services that have been proven to help reduce gun violence.”
As for the proposed assault weapons ban, Bocour said “there has been an assault weapons ban previously, and we were seeing it start to have a real impact. Things take time. And so our hope is that it obviously will come back and we believe it can.”
Mayor George Brown, Wilkes-Barre said he’s unsure of how his community would react to the gun reform measures. Instead, he’s focused on how the plan will help police.
He said he’s already used money from the American Rescue Plan to make change.
“I took a lot of that money. And, according to the guidelines that were set out, we worked on making Wilkes-Barre City safer. How do we do that? We purchased ten new police vehicles with that money. Our officers are all getting new firearms with that money. We’re actually purchasing ten bicycles. And, the ten bicycles are going to be for the police officers to actually be in the community, in neighborhoods within the city of Wilkes-Barre, community policing. You know, making sure that they have the training, but also they have the things that they need to be in the community,” said the mayor.
The mayor said Wilkes-Barre is also working to equip all police officers with body cameras.
The President is going to Wilkes-Barre after he had to cancel the trip in July due to his COVID-19 infection.
“He called me on the phone and he said, you know, Mayor, I’m sorry that we couldn’t make it. But, we’re going to try and make it again. So, when he said that, I was really hoping that we’d be able to see the president come visit the city, Wilkes-Barre, because we’re very proud of the city. We love the city. And, sure enough, he kept his promise,” said the mayor.
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Target’s car seat trade-in event is coming back soon
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 4:44 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(Gray News) - Target’s biannual car seat trade-in event is coming soon.
From Sept. 11-24, you can bring an old, expired, or damaged car seat to Target and receive a 20% coupon for a new car seat, stroller, or select baby gear. The coupon can be redeemed through Oct. 8.
Materials from the old car seats will be recycled by Target’s partner, Waste Management, to create new products such as plastic buckets, steel beams, and carpet padding.
The biannual trade-in event has seen 1.97 million car seats recycled since 2016, resulting in 29.6 million pounds of recycled material.
Target said the event is one way the company is working toward its goal of zero waste in U.S. operations by 2030.
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Vegan mom gets life in prison for starvation death of son
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Sheila O’Leary, 38, whose family followed a strict vegan diet, was convicted in June on six charges — first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect — in the death of Ezra O’Leary. Her sentencing in Lee County, Florida, had previously been postponed four times.
Her husband, Ryan Patrick O’Leary, remains in jail while awaiting trial on the same charges. Investigators said the couple told them the family ate only raw fruits and vegetables, although the toddler also was fed breast milk. The 18-month-old boy weighed 17 pounds and was the size of a 7-month-old baby when he died in September 2019, a police report said.
The Cape Coral couple had two other children, ages 3 and 5, who also were malnourished, investigators said. A fourth child had been returned to her biological father during an earlier malnutrition case in Virginia, court records show.
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Widespread rain likely Tuesday; a few severe storms possible
Isolated heavy rain could occur at times as well
A cold front sliding into our area will bring a renewed chance of widespread rain into Tuesday. Until the front moves in, we’ll be mild and muggy into this evening, with a few isolated showers/storms ahead of the incoming boundary. Not everyone will see rain tonight though; we’ll otherwise see increasing clouds, some fog here & there, and low temps will fall into the low-mid 60s for most.
Tuesday will bring on and off showers and thunderstorms throughout the day as a cold front moves in. With more clouds and rain around, we should be slightly cooler, with highs in the mid 70s to low 80s for most.
While not a widespread/major threat, a few isolated severe storms with gusty winds, heavy rain, and small hail will still be possible, especially Tuesday afternoon/evening. Localized flooding issues cannot be ruled out with locally heavy downpours on occasion. Stay weather aware!
Rain will gradually fade overnight Tuesday night, and low temps will be slightly cooler behind the departing front, in the 50s and low 60s for most.
Wednesday looks dry, with plenty of sunshine and low humidity! Temps will be in the mid-upper 70s for most. Wednesday night will be cool and dry with lows in the 50s for most. The majority of the work week is looking dry, but we could see some rain return at times by this weekend...stay tuned!
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As the U.S. Open began Monday in New York, tennis fans tuned into what could be Serena Williams' final matches. The tennis icon hinted she might retire after this year's tournament.
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As the U.S. Open began Monday in New York, tennis fans tuned into what could be Serena Williams' final matches. The tennis icon hinted she might retire after this year's tournament.
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The drummer Antonio Sanchez has an alter ego, born out of something Donald Trump said in 2016. As Sanchez remembers in an interview with All Things Considered: "The phrase was, 'We have some bad hombres here and we have to get them out.' "
At first, Sanchez simply needed an outlet for the anxiety of that political moment – luckily, playing drums fit the bill nicely. But that percussive therapy then turned into an album, to twist Trump's pejorative "into something positive," he explains of the first volume of his Bad Hombre project, released in 2017.
"I started kind of realizing that I had all this power down there in my studio and I could do things as if I was a mad scientist in my laboratory. And it was so liberating that of course I wanted to keep doing music this way – and that's how Shift was born."
Shift is the name of a new album Sanchez released this past Friday with the subtitle Bad Hombre Vol. II. This time, Sanchez — a Grammy-winning jazz drummer behind the score of the lauded film Birdman - — reached out to artists in other genres to re-imagine their work. That effort was a resounding success, ending up with Signal featuring guest turns from fellow Grammy winners Trent Reznor, Dave Matthews, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kimbra, Lila Downs and Rodrigo y Gabriela, among many others.
"I'm the least-famous person in the whole record," Sanchez says with a laugh. It's a list that also includes his own 97-year-old grandfather, the renowned actor Ignacio López Tarso, who he asked to serve as the album's master of ceremonies.
"It's amazing for me to have my grandfather's voice in the beginning and at the end, just thanking everyone for their presence."
To listen to the complete conversation, use the audio player at the top of this page.
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Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-08-29/how-climate-change-could-be-impacting-pathogenic-diseases | 2022-08-29T22:17:48Z |
Free meals will continue for all students in Maine as federal funding for the pandemic-era program ends. The state says removing barriers means more kids who would otherwise go without will get fed.
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Free meals will continue for all students in Maine as federal funding for the pandemic-era program ends. The state says removing barriers means more kids who would otherwise go without will get fed.
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NASA scrubbed its Artemis I test flight to the moon due to engine issues but will try again Friday. The flight is uncrewed but NASA hopes to send people back to the moon on future flights.
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NASA scrubbed its Artemis I test flight to the moon due to engine issues but will try again Friday. The flight is uncrewed but NASA hopes to send people back to the moon on future flights.
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The young Scottish classical guitarist Sean Shibe defies expectations. His new album is titled Lost & Found – and one thing he apparently lost was his traditional, nylon-strung classical guitar. What he found instead was a sleek black Mexican Fender Stratocaster.
The album is a fully plugged-in affair, without a trace of the standard Spanish classics or Bach transcriptions many guitarists thrive on. Instead, Shibe artfully gathers over a millennium's worth of compositions, which, on the surface, may seem like odd bedfellows.
And if you think electric guitars are only for shredding and blasting big noise, think again. In Shibe's arrangement of "Peace Piece," by jazz pianist Bill Evans, the textures are gauzy and the colors are muted. I've rarely heard an electric guitar sound so featherlight.
The 30-year-old Edinburgh native, who studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, likes to keep his listeners on their toes. Last year, he released an album of Iberian and French music that glowed with crepuscular introspection. On the cover, Shibe appeared monk-like with a freshly shorn head. The booklet photos showed him, clippers in hand, lopping off his thick locks.
Lost & Found flows with a chameleon-like duality. Shibe's inspiration comes via the enigmatic 18th-century poet and printmaker William Blake, whose metaphysical work plays with opposites and disguise. "A radical searching for the revelatory," is how Shibe sums up Blake in the album booklet. "The illustrations that accompany his writings disregard convention and present a vital auteurship of craft and philosophy," he adds. In that spirit, electric guitars don't sound like themselves on Lost & Found. And Shibe himself, perhaps mirroring some of Blake's paintings, appears androgynous on the album cover, swathed in a pink tulle dress.
Another touchstone of mysticism, represented by two tracks on the album, is the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen, whose piece "O Choruscans Lux Stellarum" gets a megawatt makeover. In place of sacred vocals, Shibe offers a psychedelic swirl of celestial light — a kind of "star-way to heaven."
Shibe thinks of his new album as an "overflowing toy box" of compositions, but actually it unfolds like a clever mixtape. Music by Meredith Monk, Chick Corea and Olivier Messiaen rub elbows with Julius Eastman and Moondog, the Viking-clad composer who, beginning in the 1940s, performed on the streets of Manhattan and slept in doorways. His lighthearted love song "High on a Rocky Ledge," thanks to Shibe's refined strumming, takes on the gravitas of a solemn prayer.
Throughout the album, the guitar substitutes for other instruments by way of Shibe's crafty, and reliably tasteful, arrangements. Yet there is one piece meant to be played on electric guitar — Continuance, music written for Shibe by the rising young British composer Daniel Kidane. Meditative chords that float like clouds are pierced with beams of multi-colored light. The ethereal sounds emanate from the other electric guitar Shibe deploys on the album, a 35th anniversary edition of a PRS Custom 24-08.
Lost & Found is a beguiling album, where music of innocence and experience interlace. And where a masterful, mercurial artist, compels us to question what a "classical guitarist" should sound like in 2022.
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Texas laws bar Wall Street firms from operating in the state if they stop investing in firearms and fossil fuels. An analysis shows that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars this year.
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Texas laws bar Wall Street firms from operating in the state if they stop investing in firearms and fossil fuels. An analysis shows that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars this year.
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The Ukrainian military says it has begun a counteroffensive in the country's south to take back key territory occupied by the Russians early in the war.
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The Ukrainian military says it has begun a counteroffensive in the country's south to take back key territory occupied by the Russians early in the war.
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On Saturday, families from Uvalde made the 2 1/2-hour trip to the state Capitol in Austin to ask Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session of the Texas Legislature to pass laws on gun reform.
The rally on the Capitol steps included a host of speakers like Maggie Mireles, whose sister Eva Mireles was one of the teachers killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary in May. The primary ask of Abbott: Raise the purchasing age of certain firearms from 18 to 21.
The odds of that occurring are unlikely not just due to political concerns leading up to the governor’s election in November, but also because gun reform in Texas has proved to be difficult in the first place. Just last week, a federal judge struck down a Texas law prohibiting adults under the age of 21 from carrying handguns in public.
Jeremy Wallace, a reporter with The Houston Chronicle who was at the Capitol on Saturday, joined the Texas Standard to talk about what happened.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
Texas Standard: Tell us a little bit about what it was like at the Capitol on Saturday.
Jeremy Wallace: It was just absolutely heartbreaking and devastating to hear all of these families being able to tell the story of their children. This really all happened so recently. And you can feel the anger and the sadness wrapped up in these families trying to tell us what they lost that day. So it was very emotionally draining for, I think, everybody who was in that crowd and having to think about, you know, just how tragic this all was.
The folks who had gathered on the steps of the Capitol were asking the governor to call for a special session. Specifically, what were these families demanding?
Some of the families were saying, look, we want to get rid of all of these assault-type weapons. These shouldn’t be anywhere. But, you know, really what most of them have focused on, it’s like, “okay, we know we can’t get that from this Texas government, so let’s try to go for some sort of compromise.” And they repeatedly said, let’s just move the age from 18 to 21 to purchase some of these weapons like Florida has done, like California has done, like New York has done. Let’s follow that path. And so they were kind of looking to press that issue and make that the push here instead of doing an all-out ban on assault weapons, which they know is probably not likely to happen.
With the Legislature not in session, I wonder whether those pleas are being heard. Of course, the governor is in Austin; have you heard anything from Gov. Abbott?
Well, Gov. Abbott was not in Austin on Saturday when this event was happening. He was down in Richmond, Texas, for some political events. And you’re right, you know, the Legislature is not in session and the governor so far hasn’t acted on this. It does not sound like this is something he wants to happen politically. He probably does not want the Legislature here. That would certainly bring a lot more politics into it; it’s not something he wants to do as he’s running for re-election. So there’s certainly a low threshold for his team wanting to go into a special session. So it’s unlikely we’re going to see something like that happen in these last few months before the election.
Pete Arredondo has taken a lot of heat for law enforcement’s response to the shooting and was relieved from his job as head of the Uvalde CISD Police Department last week. Did that come up at all?
More than one person kept bringing up how many officers were there and response and the speed that people did not respond. So that did come up quite a bit as part of it. From each family, it was different as a kind of explanation of what they were going through. For some, it was just like a heartbreaking tale of the last time they saw their child. For others, it was anger at the law enforcement that didn’t do anything or anger at the state government for not doing more. And certainly there was a lot of anger at the shooter who did all this to begin with. And so you just had all of that kind of mixed into this event. And like I said, it was just a very heartbreaking, difficult situation to kind of put yourself in the place where these parents were trying to get through. | https://www.keranews.org/government/2022-08-29/at-capitol-rally-uvalde-families-demand-abbott-call-special-session-on-gun-reform | 2022-08-29T22:18:24Z |
Updated August 29, 2022 at 4:52 PM ET
Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke said Sunday he is taking a break from the campaign trail after contracting a bacterial infection and will hold two virtual campaign events Monday.
O'Rourke said he began feeling sick on Friday and was diagnosed with the infection at the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where he received antibiotics.
"While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors' recommendations," he tweeted Sunday.
O'Rourke, who is running against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the November election, said he will have to postpone some events due to his illness, but will be back on the campaign trail as soon as possible.
O'Rourke recently made headlines while on the campaign trail in North Texas when he swore at a heckler during a campaign rally. He was speaking to a crowd in Mineral Wells, Texas, about the mass shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, when a member in the audience began to laugh, NPR member station Houston Public Media reported.
O'Rourke quickly spun around and pointed at the heckler and said, "It may be funny to you, motherf*****, but it's not funny to me, OK."
The crowd immediately began cheering in support of O'Rourke's snappy interjection.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.keranews.org/news/2022-08-28/beto-orourke-turns-to-virtual-campaigning-due-to-a-bacterial-infection | 2022-08-29T22:18:30Z |
On the field, college football looked as it ever did in its return on Saturday. Off the field, however, the game has changed.
A Supreme Court ruling in 2021 paved the way for college athletes to make money from their name, image and likeness. Since then, a new ecosystem based around compensating student-athletes has emerged on its own, with little guidance from the NCAA, universities or their athletic departments.
Ross Dellenger, college football reporter for Sports Illustrated, spoke to the Texas Standard about the new business of college football.
This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:
Texas Standard: When college athletes got the legal right to make money off their name, image and likeness – NIL, as it’s commonly called – a lot of folks envisioned that taking the form of endorsements, selling merchandise, making appearances. How close is that to the current reality?
Ross Dellenger: Well, in some respects, that is the reality for some players; they are earning compensation from endorsement contracts and commercial deals. But we have seen NIL over the last 14 months or so evolve into something else entirely.
Boosters, donors of schools have involved themselves fairly heavily and are using NIL to basically distribute payment to players. So what’s happening is most schools nowadays have what they’re calling a collective, and basically it’s a collection of boosters that are donating money to a pool. And that money is being distributed to players in exchange for players, you know, appearing at events, a podcast with a booster, you know, very little things; there’s not a whole lot of deliverables going on from the players’ side. But they are they’re getting checks, basically.
A lot of people think, well, it’s one thing to have boosters just basically giving athletes money, right – creating a kind of incentive that is prohibited, strictly speaking. On the other hand, what is the real difference in, say, boosters who have an interest in the university providing this money in exchange for, say, speaking or making an appearance and, say, one of these athletes getting a getting a gig putting his face on a Pringles can or cereal box or something?
Well, obviously, you know, when you talk about big brands that are using athletes’ name, image and likeness for endorsement in commercial opportunities, that’s, kind of the normal process. That’s how everybody thought that it would go. I think the big difference in something really the NCAA and college administrators expected was that boosters were going to get involved because of recruiting, you know, and that’s what makes college sports different from professional ranks. You have a draft, obviously, in the pros, and in college you have recruiting. And what’s happening is NIL is being used by boosters as recruiting inducements. You know, if you give your players money in this roundabout way using NIL, well, recruits will see that they’ll want to come here and there are somewhat bidding wars among collectives.
It’s my understanding that this is really going big at a couple of Texas schools, Texas Tech and Southern Methodist. I hear that they’re going to be paying all their schools’ football players what amounts to kind of base salaries.
That’s right. I think Texas Tech announced maybe $25,000 base salary, and SMU announced something similar. And of course, at the University of Texas, they’re doing salaries kind of by position. Offensive linemen are getting $50,000, I believe, at Texas. And, you know, A&M has its fund. So Texas is certainly, I would guess as a state, it and Florida are probably ahead of everybody else when it comes to this new world.
Could it change the culture of college football at some more fundamental level – the way that players are recruited more broadly, and the expectations that players have when they’re shopping around for college?
It is changing the landscape of recruiting. Everybody would tell you that recruits were getting paid by select schools probably before all this, that recruiting inducements did exist. So it’s been happening. Now it’s happening, obviously, at a more serious clip, and it’s bigger money. And there are a select number of schools that are more ambitious because they have more money – so not surprisingly, they have the bigger collectives. So this is changing the recruiting landscape. And those at the top – Clemsons, Alabamas, Georgias – I think are fearing those other schools that are being more ambitious with NIL.
But there’s been a reason that the NCAA has regulated inducements in the first place. That hasn’t changed, the philosophy behind those regulations. Now you have something that is under the dressing of NIL, but by all descriptions, I mean, sounds like essentially an inducement. I mean, are we just playing word games at this juncture?
Well, I think that many of these are inducements. The problem is finding the evidence to prove that it is inducements. And because the fear is that these boosters, these collectives, will eventually sue the NCAA – which has been sued into oblivion already – if they come in and crack down, because to the boosters and to these collectives, they are just abiding by their state NIL laws and they are providing payment for athletes for using their name, image and likeness in appearances and whatever else. So they have a lot of documented proof that they are doing that, but we know the real reason why they’re doing it. And the problem is proving what the real reason is and having evidence that they did this to recruit this this prospect.
Is there any momentum, any pushback when it comes to what we’re seeing with these collectives?
Well, the NCAA is investigating, they’ve been down to Miami, for instance, on campus there. They’ve investigated specifically a booster there – not a collective, but a single booster who has provided $7 million in NIL payments to athletes at Miami. So again, the issue is, will they find enough proof, enough evidence to sanction a school? And what will probably happen is they won’t penalize the players specifically with ineligibility, but they’ll sanction the school for not policing its boosters. And they might even force the school or require the school to distance itself from the boosters. So we could see that coming. Invariably, though, if that does come, we will see lawsuits, and many believe the NCAA will lose those lawsuits in court. | https://www.keranews.org/sports/2022-08-29/the-new-business-of-college-football-how-nil-has-changed-the-landscape | 2022-08-29T22:18:37Z |
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The new business of college football: How NIL has changed the landscape
Michael Marks | Texas Standard
The off-field world of college football is completely different now that players can legally profit off their name, image and likeness. | https://www.keranews.org/tags/nil | 2022-08-29T22:18:43Z |
17-year-old National Guard soldier dies after collapsing during training, officials say
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - A 17-year-old soldier in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard died in the hospital after a training session, according to officials.
WIS reports Pvt. Alyssa Cahoon was taken to a hospital in Fort Jackson after she collapsed during training on Aug. 20.
In a Facebook post, the 1st Battalion 34th Regiment said Cahoon died surrounded by her family.
Patrick R. Michaelis, an official with the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson, said they are providing comfort and assistance to anyone connected to Cahoon or the situation.
“We extend our deepest sympathies to the family members and teammates of the deceased soldier,” he said.
The cause of her death is still under investigation.
Copyright 2022 WIS via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/17-year-old-national-guard-soldier-dies-after-collapsing-during-training-officials-say/ | 2022-08-29T23:08:58Z |
Biden to deliver prime-time speech on ‘battle’ for democracy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time address “on the continued battle for the soul of the nation” Thursday outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the White House announced Monday.
Billed as a major address just over two months before the midterm elections, Biden, the White House said, will discuss how the nation’s standing in the world and its democracy are at stake.
“He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack,” the White House said. “And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy.”
Biden has increasingly sought to portray the November elections as a choice for voters between “ultra-MAGA Republicans” — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — and Democrats. He told supporters last week that they had “to vote to literally save democracy once again” — and labeled some Republican ideology as “semi-fascism.”
NBC News was first to report on Biden’s plans for the address.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/biden-deliver-prime-time-speech-battle-democracy/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:04Z |
Central Virginia Auto Auction closing down
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 3:43 PM EDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - After 34 years in business, Central Virginia Auto Auction is closing its doors.
The auction place says it had a loyal group of customers ranging from used car dealers, sellers, buyers, and car lovers. The once weekly auction was scaled down to twice monthly.
“We did ultimately make the decision to close it, and people need to make sure that they retrieve any paperwork, titles, vehicles, keys before Friday,” Auction Manager Amber Sherwood said.
Sherwood says if anyone has questions to give them a call at 434-951-1070.
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Copyright 2022 WVIR. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/central-virginia-auto-auction-closing-down/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:11Z |
Game week arrives as Dukes prepare to make FBS debut
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The James Madison football team is preparing to make its FBS debut later this week.
The Dukes are scheduled to host Middle Tennessee Saturday at 6 p.m. in what will be the first game for James Madison as a member of the FBS and Sun Belt Conference. JMU moved up the highest level of college football after previously performing as one of the top teams in the FCS.
“I know our players are extremely excited,” said JMU head coach Curt Cignetti. “We expect a sellout. We are 43-2 at home over the last six years. We take a lot of pride in playing at home and I know they are going to be flying around on Saturday.”
JMU, coming off a 12-2 record and appearance in the FCS Semifinals last season, welcomes Middle Tennessee to Harrisonburg. The Blue Raiders finished 7-6 in 2021 and won the Bahamas Bowl with a 31-24 victory over Toledo.
“This is (JMU’s) first game as a full-fledged FBS team participant,” said Middle Tennessee head coach Rick Stockstill. “So I know they are going to be excited about opening up at home their first game of the year. So it’s a great challenge for us.”
Despite the season opener being less than one week away, James Madison’s starting quarterback has not been officially announced. Colorado State transfer Todd Centeio appears to be the front-runner but he’s been challenged in preseason practice by last year’s backup Billy Atkins and true freshman Alonza Barnett III
“The last two weeks, we have thrown the ball extremely well, making plays on the outside,” said Cignetti. “I just think all three quarterbacks have a better understanding of the offense, the protections, where to go with the ball, cutting their losses, not making bad plays. I think most of the guys on the team pretty much know who the quarterback is going to be. If I feel like it’s important to announce before the game, we will.”
Saturday’s contest between Middle Tennessee and James Madison will be broadcast on ESPN+
Copyright 2022 WHSV. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/game-week-arrives-dukes-prepare-make-fbs-debut/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:17Z |
“I don’t want another parent to go through what I’ve gone through”: Staunton mom reflects on child’s assault
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - A mother in the Valley is opening up about her daughter’s experiences.
Jeanette Donald said her 11-year-old is a victim of sexual assault. Around April, her child changed. Not long after, she attempted suicide. It wasn’t until August that she knew why.
“I don’t want another parent to go through what I’ve gone through – not understanding why their child has changed, why their child is hurting, and they can’t fix it,” Donald said.
The alleged perpetrator went to school at Shelburne Middle School with her child. While her daughter’s assault happened off school grounds, she said students made allegations during school.
“I advised [the children] who had been harassed by this young man to make school officials aware of this situation,” Donald said.
This was long before she knew what had happened to her daughter.
“My exact words were, ‘If you see something say something,’” she said.
Donald said a pair of students went to officials in person, and another exchanged emails with school leaders.
The alleged assailant stayed in school. Donald said not enough was done.
“Fast forward to this spring, my daughter started having a lot of behavioral problems. My daughter made an attempt on her life back in April, and we nearly lost her,” Donald said tearfully.
On August 10, the second day of school, students made a life-changing report to the school administration.
“Some students went to school administration and said that there was a video/screenshot of my daughter circulating that was taken during her assault,” Donald said.
She found out the afternoon of August 11 while her daughter was in psychiatric care for the second time. Now, she said the school and school district is being supportive.
“They’re reacting in all the ways that they should, but it’s a bit too late. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. They could have done things better not just protect my daughter because she’s not the only one. It breaks my heart to know she’s not the only one,” she said.
Because the alleged perpetrator is still at school, Donald’s child will be homeschooled during the investigation.
By telling her story, Donald said she hopes adults will learn to listen to children when they come forward with their stories. Additionally, she hopes children who keep secrets will know they are not alone.
“I pray that people will take heed to this and change the way things are now, that parents will hear this and talk to their kids, that these kids will hear this and they’ll know that it’s not going to be ok, but that people care, somebody cares,” Donald said.
Donald said Staunton Police Department is investigating. We contacted the school division for comment, but since there’s an active investigation, they couldn’t provide one.
Copyright 2022 WHSV. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/i-dont-want-another-parent-go-through-what-ive-gone-through-staunton-mom-reflects-childs-assault/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:23Z |
Massanutten Resort launches first solar array
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - Monday morning at Massanutten Resort the flip was switched on how they use energy.
“As part of the renewable energy, as part of starting to reduce our carbon footprint, it was something that we wanted to do,” Mike Shiflet, vice president of corporate development, said.
Crews unveiled the first of many solar arrays at the Woodstone building, which is the central check-in location at the resort.
“The process began by evaluating which areas of the resort we could feasibly put solar and as Mike Shiflet will always say we identified the lowest hanging fruit,” Mark Wagner, general manager of Peak Construction said.
Shiflet said Massanutten has been looking to add solar energy for years now, but with new tax credits and incentives the resort has received recently they were able to start work on this project in January.
The Woodstone building is just the first of many solar projects Massanutten has planned.
“As we move forward with new projects we incorporate solar design into every structure or project that we build,” Wagner said.
Solar panels will be installed on the roof of the laundry building and ground arrays will be at the waterpark later this fall.
“Moving forward our task is to identify any project that we have coming up within the resort and see if it is feasible to have a solar array incorporated into our designs,” Wagner said.
The energy-efficient arrays will ultimately save the resort money, which in turn, Shiflet said will make employees money as Massanutten Resort is an employee-owned company.
“Any savings to the company or any savings on the monthly electric bill all the way through results in savings for the employees and helps our profit margin and our stock prices,” Shiflet said.
Copyright 2022 WHSV. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/massanutten-resort-launches-first-solar-array/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:29Z |
President heads to Pennsylvania with plan to ban assault weapons & help police
The Biden administration’s plan would pump billions of dollars into gun violence prevention and funding for law enforcement.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden heads to Wilkes-Barre tomorrow as he promotes his ‘Safer America Plan’ that seeks to crack down on gun violence and funnel more funding into police.
It entails what the White House calls ‘commonsense gun laws’ such as required background checks for all gun sales, a ban on assault weapons, and a ban on high-capacity magazines. The Biden administration says those are “weapons of war that have no place in our communities.”
“Banning assault weapons is bipartisan all across the country. The only place that banning assault weapons is not bipartisan is in the United States Congress. I think that there are families across the country who are seeing the wreckage that assault weapons... are creating in their communities and their kids schools and their grocery stores. And they think that these weapons of war shouldn’t be on the street, and they are calling on their members of Congress to stand with them and their families and their kids. Not special interests like the National Rifle Association,” said Kate Berner, a White House spokesperson.
The plan would provid funding for police training, expanded task forces, and more technology. It would also boost community services that seek to curb the root causes of gun violence.
Read what the Safer America Plan would do here.
“His plan is to fund the police, to put more officers out on the beat, working in their communities. The American Rescue Plan provided resources for states and cities to hire new officers to train them... new equipment. Every single Republican in Congress voted against that. He’s going to talk about his plan to make our community safer from gun violence. This summer, he brought together Republicans and Democrats to sign the bipartisan safer (communities act). It’s the first gun safety reform law in 30 years,” said Berner.
Lars Dalseide of the National Rifle Association said in a statement “any policy that seeks to address the Joe Biden crime crisis raging through our country must begin with a focus on taking violent criminals off the streets. Unfortunately, Biden’s Justice Department allows criminals to roam free throughout Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and other cities large and small without fear of prosecution or punishment. Americans know the no cash bail and the revolving door justice system supported by misguided leaders who are soft-on-crime are the real problem. Instead of focusing his efforts on criminals who commit crimes, the president proposes hollow plans like this that will not stop this violence.”
Yet gun violence advocacy group Giffords Law Center believes the plans investments will save lives.
“This is a really important step forward for federal gun safety policy. As you know, it has not come easy to be able to enact legislation and new laws at the federal level. And, it’s really important that the president has continued to champion this issue,” said Nico Bocour of Giffords. “So, some of the things that we are really excited that this particular plan will do is invest much needed funding into things like community policing and also the hiring and training of 100,000 additional police officers and provide grant programs, $15 billion in grant programs to cities and states, so that they could also similarly provide supportive services that have been proven to help reduce gun violence.”
As for the proposed assault weapons ban, Bocour said “there has been an assault weapons ban previously, and we were seeing it start to have a real impact. Things take time. And so our hope is that it obviously will come back and we believe it can.”
Mayor George Brown, Wilkes-Barre said he’s unsure of how his community would react to the gun reform measures. Instead, he’s focused on how the plan will help police.
He said he’s already used money from the American Rescue Plan to make change.
“I took a lot of that money. And, according to the guidelines that were set out, we worked on making Wilkes-Barre City safer. How do we do that? We purchased ten new police vehicles with that money. Our officers are all getting new firearms with that money. We’re actually purchasing ten bicycles. And, the ten bicycles are going to be for the police officers to actually be in the community, in neighborhoods within the city of Wilkes-Barre, community policing. You know, making sure that they have the training, but also they have the things that they need to be in the community,” said the mayor.
The mayor said Wilkes-Barre is also working to equip all police officers with body cameras.
The President is going to Wilkes-Barre after he had to cancel the trip in July due to his COVID-19 infection.
“He called me on the phone and he said, you know, Mayor, I’m sorry that we couldn’t make it. But, we’re going to try and make it again. So, when he said that, I was really hoping that we’d be able to see the president come visit the city, Wilkes-Barre, because we’re very proud of the city. We love the city. And, sure enough, he kept his promise,” said the mayor.
Copyright 2022 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/president-heads-pennsylvania-with-plan-ban-assault-weapons-help-police/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:35Z |
Richmond Police Chief apologizes for confusion, anxiety over alleged mass shooting plot target
City Council set to speak with chief next week during private meeting
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - There is more fallout from an alleged mass shooting planned for the Fourth of July in Richmond. Now, the city’s police chief is apologizing, through a statement, for any confusion or anxiety caused by his naming Dogwood Dell as the location.
“We try to help hold the public trust and the public interest, and we just want to have a conversation. I just went to have a conversation with the chief just to see how things happened and how things will happen in the future,” said Mike Jones, Richmond City Council.
Over the weekend, a FOIA request from the Richmond Times-Dispatch revealed Smith was informed in writing before his July 6 news conference that the location of any potential incident was “unknown.” A police official emailed those records to Smith and an assistant seven minutes before Smith’s news conference
“But the chief either didn’t have the time to read the information the department had given him, or he deliberately misled us. Neither explanation is acceptable for a police chief,” said Steven Benjamin, NBC12 Legal Analyst.
Benjamin is concerned a lack of accountability will end up straining relations even more between police and the community.
“You’ve got a chief who is reckless with the facts and clueless about why they matter and is apparently too arrogant to admit that he heard wrong and to give an apology,” said Benjamin.
Following the July press conference, questions emerged about why event organizers and police working the event weren’t told about the threat. And there still are questions about why the suspects charged in the case don’t face more serious charges.
During an interview earlier this month, the chief blamed the confusion on internal communication issues. Now city councilors look toward questioning the chief about the decisions made during a behind-closed-doors meeting. That special meeting has been called for Sept. 6.
“Would we have wanted information to flow out differently? Yeah. If that’s what he’s leaning on that based upon his professional experience, his years in law enforcement that that is the place that he thought was the intended target, that’s fine,” said Jones.
The chief also said he’s currently planning a series of community conversations for the week of Sept 12 and that he stands ready to answer questions and rebuild confidence.
Smith released the following statement to NBC12:
“My intent was not to cause alarm but to merely inform the community that a threat had been neutralized and that see something, say something works.
“Striking fear and causing alarm was the furthest thing from my mind when I stood before our residents on July 6th. Quite the contrary, my goal was to create transparency and inform the public. For any confusion or anxiety that my stating Dogwood Dell was the most likely target, I am deeply sorry.
“Our police department puts the safety of our residents and visitors first. We remain on high alert like any other city in the United States.
“We are currently planning a series of community conversations for the week of September 12th. I stand ready to answer questions and to rebuild confidence.”
Copyright 2022 WWBT. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/richmond-police-chief-apologizes-confusion-anxiety-over-alleged-mass-shooting-plot-target/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:42Z |
Staunton Fire and Rescue respond to fire on West Beverley
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 6:03 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - Staunton Fire and Rescue were dispatched just before 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 29 to 1726 West Beverley St. for calls of smoke coming out of a home.
Deputy Chief Perry Weller said the main occupant was able to remove a dog and get out safely. No injuries were reported, but the fire did displace two women and a boy, along with the dog.
Weller said the structure is moderately damaged. Repairs are possible, but the home is not livable right now.
He said the cause was an electrical malfunction.
Copyright 2022 WHSV. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/08/29/staunton-fire-rescue-respond-fire-west-beverley/ | 2022-08-29T23:09:48Z |
UVA Health and partners expanding remote patient monitoring
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - UVA Health is teaming up with six other organizations to provide at-home monitoring all across the commonwealth. The goal is to help patients in more rural areas get the care they need.
“This kind of involvement could save somebody’s life,” Tri-Area Community Health CEO James Werth said.
Tri-Area Community Health is one of the six organizations included. The others include Bath Community Hospital, Bland County Medical Clinic, Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems, Central Virginia Health Services and Monacan Indian Nation.
“In two of our counties, there’s no hospital. So by the time somebody’s determined something’s wrong, makes a call, squad gets out there, you know, it could be there could be 20 minutes to 30 minutes difference,” Werth said.
That’s where UVA Health, its six partners, and $700,000 in grant money comes in. The funding comes from the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It will provide each of the partners will reusable patient-monitoring kits. Those will include a variety of things, depending on the patients’ needs, but likely will be tablets with an internet connection and medical equipment such as blood pressure cuffs, thermometers and scales.
“We’re now able to help other entities within the state of Virginia provide remote patient monitoring to at-risk patient populations,” Novella Thompson with UVA Health’s Department of Population Health said.
Thompson’s department works with telehealth.
“We provide the patient with an iPad, or they can use their own smart device, and we provide them with patient equipment. Peripherals is what we call them, a blood pressure cuff, pulse oximeter, thermometer scales, different peripherals for different patient needs,” she said.
“We actually can provide the cellular connectivity to the home of the patient so that they can upload their data from their homes, if they don’t have broadband communication services within their home or in their home community. So that’s another advantage and that’s another program that we can leverage in combination with this program, which provides the technology and the support to do so,” Director of the UVA Center for Telehealth Karen Rheuban said.
A team of clinicians will help look over patients at risk, no matter where they are. Right now, the focus is on heart failure and pregnant woman at high risk.
“Those professionals could detect something that maybe even the person isn’t aware is happening. When we’re talking about the heart, things can happen very quickly, and that, you know, minutes can, can make a difference,” Werth said.
The plan is to teach these rural organizations how to use these tools so they can eventually expand and use them on their own.
“This work is to help remove the barriers to healthcare,” Thompson said.
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W.Va. public health leaders prepare for roll-out of updated booster shot
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) - State health leaders predict a leveling off of COVID-19 cases in W.Va. over the next couple of weeks.
According to Coronavirus Czar Dr. Clay Marsh, the state was expected to peak with around 500 hospitalized cases by Labor Day. Now, he estimates that number to be below 400. “We expect the number of cases to level off in the next couple of weeks. Then, we expect to start seeing a reduced number.”
The latest estimates come just as that state awaits the green light on the distribution of an updated booster shot tailored specifically to Omnicron. However, as Ret. Maj. Gen. James Hoyer explained at the Governor’s press briefing, the latest shot will not initially be available to everyone.
“We’re going to be focused on long-term care, assisted living, and West Virginians over the age of 65. We’ll also be engaged in working on getting those updated boosters to health care workers and first responders and those on the front lines.”
Bureau for Public Health Dir. Dr. Ayne Amjad said there are steps those who are not eligible can take to keep the virus at bay.
“We would encourage everyone eligible for the fourth dose of the booster to go ahead and get them, because the Omnicron boosters that are going to be approved are going to be prioritized for long-term care and those older than 65. So if you’re older than 50 and can still get your fourth dose, we encourage you to go ahead and get that.”
Gov. Jim Justice said that some states are starting to see their number of cases plateau over the long-term. If West Virginians continue to focus on testing, vaccination, and treatment, he said West Virginia could be next.
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Alex Youn's sister had taken legal steps to protect herself from her violent estranged husband. She and her mother were killed anyway. Youn used clues she left to change loopholes in Tennessee law.
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Alex Youn's sister had taken legal steps to protect herself from her violent estranged husband. She and her mother were killed anyway. Youn used clues she left to change loopholes in Tennessee law.
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Free meals will continue for all students in Maine as federal funding for the pandemic-era program ends. The state says removing barriers means more kids who would otherwise go without will get fed.
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Free meals will continue for all students in Maine as federal funding for the pandemic-era program ends. The state says removing barriers means more kids who would otherwise go without will get fed.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-29/maine-continues-free-school-meals-even-though-federal-program-is-ending | 2022-08-29T23:18:34Z |
Texas laws bar Wall Street firms from operating in the state if they stop investing in firearms and fossil fuels. An analysis shows that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars this year.
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Texas laws bar Wall Street firms from operating in the state if they stop investing in firearms and fossil fuels. An analysis shows that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars this year.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said this year’s hunting season will generally be a good one for hunters. The outlooks for some game species are better than others but are still good for those hoping to take something home after a successful hunt. Hunting season for some game species continues until the end of January.
“Right now, elk hunting throughout Wyoming should be very good,” said Sara DiRienzo, a spokeswoman for the Game and Fish. “Nearly all herds in the state are at or above population objectives, so there'll be lots of opportunities for people who are pursuing bulls or cows, and [there’s] ample opportunity to harvest elk in Wyoming.”
The outlook for deer, however, isn’t as optimistic, though there’s a good chance that hunters will be able to have their chance at them overall.
“Pronghorn numbers overall are down, but those who drew licenses should do pretty well on their hunts,” she explained. “Decent buck numbers exist throughout the state, but older animals will be somewhat difficult to find. Mule deer hunting should be averaged this year, but populations were influenced by the drought and harsh winters throughout the state. Most populations have remained stable or decreased.”
Impacts to wildlife populations can largely be attributed to a few factors, such as climate. The region’s prolonged drought and the intensity of winters play a role in the size and health of wildlife that are available each year for hunters.
“Throughout the state, drought conditions were pretty persistent, and some areas the drought was worse than others, but we saw a lot of localized precipitation at key times throughout the spring and the summer that really helped wildlife habitat, which in turn should help hunters,” she said.
Sage grouse and pheasant hunting is expected to offer hunters a good chance this season even after some pheasants at a state-operated bird farm near Sheridan had to be euthanized after coming into close contact with birds that tested positive for avian influenza.
DiRienzo also urges hunters to put an emphasis on safety when hunting. This comes after several firearms-related incidents were recorded last season.
“The most common occurrences of these hunting related accidents involve usually a vehicle and either loaded firearms while traversing in vehicles or accidentally firing the firearm when it is loaded,” she explained. “We really encourage folks to treat every firearm as if it is loaded and unload firearms while you're in a vehicle to prevent any tragedies from happening while you're hunting.”
In some places, rifle season overlaps with archery season. She adds that archers hunting in rifle areas are required to wear orange or pink while in the field.
Poaching is also an issue that the Game and Fish must contend with. DiRienzo said that they’re already investigating a couple of potential wildlife hunting violations.
Tips can be called in to the Game and Fish’s Stop Poaching Hotline at 1-877-WGFD-TIP (943-3847) or by texting ‘WGFD’ to 847411. Tipsters can choose to remain anonymous and may be eligible for submitting information leading to a conviction through the Wyoming Wildlife Protector’s Association.
Hunting is allowed on all Game and Fish managed properties. They also work with private landowners to open up more lands for hunting. Hunters need to apply for a permission slip in order to hunt in those areas, which can be done on the Game and Fish website. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-resources-energy/2022-08-29/the-wyoming-game-and-fish-department-forecasts-good-conditions-for-hunters-this-season | 2022-08-29T23:18:46Z |
17-year-old National Guard soldier dies after collapsing during training, officials say
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - A 17-year-old soldier in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard died in the hospital after a training session, according to officials.
WIS reports Pvt. Alyssa Cahoon was taken to a hospital in Fort Jackson after she collapsed during training on Aug. 20.
In a Facebook post, the 1st Battalion 34th Regiment said Cahoon died surrounded by her family.
Patrick R. Michaelis, an official with the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson, said they are providing comfort and assistance to anyone connected to Cahoon or the situation.
“We extend our deepest sympathies to the family members and teammates of the deceased soldier,” he said.
The cause of her death is still under investigation.
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