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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — One year after the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation shut off water to the Klamath Project amid a devastating region-wide drought, conditions appear to be worse heading into the 2022 irrigation season.
Upper Klamath Lake is again getting record low inflows following another dry winter. As of April 5, the Klamath Basin had received just 67% of its median precipitation for the water year dating back to Oct. 1 and 26% of median snowpack. Brian Person, a senior adviser for the Bureau of Reclamation in Klamath Falls, Ore., said the agency will announce its annual water allocation for the Klamath Project on April 12. He declined to speculate whether there would be a second consecutive shutoff, but said it has been "a very difficult year."
"We had a promising start to the water year," Person said, adding the basin had above-average snowpack in November and December. "It just stopped. It almost flatlined through this calendar year." During that time, Upper Klamath Lake inflows totaled 425,000 acre-feet of water. That is a record low, Person said, even lower than the previous record of 427,000 acre-feet set last year. Person said each of the last three years — 2020, 2021 and 2022 — rank in the top five driest years on record for Upper Klamath Lake. "That's not a record we were hoping to set," he said. The Bureau of Reclamation manages water in Upper Klamath Lake for irrigators and two species of endangered sucker fish, known by the Klamath Tribes as C'waam and Koptu. Under the agency's interim operations plan, the lake's water surface elevation must remain above 4,142 feet in April and May to provide shoreline spawning habitat for the sucker fish. However, Person said the lake has already failed to meet that requirement. The operations plan also calls for a springtime "flushing flow" of water from Upper Klamath Lake down the Klamath River to protect coho salmon from C. shasta, a fish-killing parasite that thrives in warm, slow-moving water. Person said the bureau is working to formulate a flushing flow for this year, though there is not enough water in the lake to release the full 50,000 acre-foot volume. Meanwhile, the fate of farmers and ranchers hangs in the balance as they await how much, if any, water will be allocated to the Klamath Project. The project serves approximately 175,000 acres of irrigated farmland straddling Southern Oregon and Northern California, as well as delivering water to two national wildlife refuges that are important stops for migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway. Last year's shutoff resulted in alarming scenes across the basin as fields turned into blowing dust, canals were choked with weeds and hundreds of domestic wells failed, leaving residents without the ability to shower or flush their toilets. Paul Simmons, executive director of the Klamath Water Users Association, said concern is once again running high in the agricultural community. "We can't have a 'last year' again," Simmons said. "We have to have a meaningful supply of irrigation water." The KWUA has pointed to what it perceives as flaws in the Bureau of Reclamation's interim operations plan for Upper Klamath Lake. Simmons described it as a "Frankenstein's monster" that simply does not work in dry years. George Plaven Reporter I cover issues aecting Oregon agriculture. Have a news tip? Let me know! "There is physically enough water to irrigate 100% of the project this year," Simmons said. "Most of it is going to go to other purposes." Person said the Bureau of Reclamation will continue to use the interim operations plan through 2022 before re-initiating consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on a new plan beginning in 2023, when the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the lower Klamath River is scheduled to begin. "That is, of course, going to change the river landscape," he said. In setting this year's Klamath Project allocation, Person said the bureau is in discussions with agricultural groups, counties, tribal governments and other regulatory agencies to balance the competing interests. "We are constrained by the numbers. We are constrained by the requirements of the ESA. But within that framework, we're working to make the best informed decision we can," he said. "When you have a shortage of water, it makes the allocation process an incredible challenge."ven/Capital Press
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Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22 as a day to learn about and remember the importance of protecting the health of the planet and all its inhabitants. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and since then we’ve seen the creation of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and other regulatory mechanisms that help to protect our environment. But the work is far from done.
This year the Earth Day theme is “Invest in Our Planet.” The focus is taking bold action to innovate and implement equitable solutions that will help us draw down our environmental impact and approach a climate-positive situation. One topic that is emerging as an integral part of climate-positive action is soil care.
Did you know that 33% of the earth’s soil is already degraded? The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has suggested that, if we continue with our current soil management practices and don’t make fundamental changes, the world may have only 60 harvests left. But if we take bold action now, we can rejuvenate our soil, which will help to ensure global food security, reduce erosion, improve nutrient cycling, provide vital microbial habitats, and pull billions of tons of carbon out of our atmosphere.
Healthy soil is the foundation of productive and resilient sustainable agriculture, and it is essential for supporting our ecosystem. One way to invest in our planet is to rehabilitate our soil, and regenerative agriculture is a viable method to do just that.
Regenerative agriculture describes farming and grazing practices that are in harmony with nature, such as no-till farming and closely managing the location and duration of animals’ foraging. This topic is especially relevant in the Klamath Basin, so for Earth Day this year, Sustainable Klamath will provide an opportunity for our community to learn more about it.
Join Sustainable Klamath this Earth Day at the Ross Ragland Cultural Center on Friday, April 22, 6:30 to 9 p.m., for a free showing of “Kiss The Ground” followed by a live presentation and Q&A session with the filmmakers.
On Friday April 22, we will show the documentary “Kiss the Ground,” which presents valuable information and inspires participation in the regenerative agriculture movement.
Join Sustainable Klamath this Earth Day from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Ross Ragland Cultural Center to view a special, all-ages version of the documentary and participate in a presentation plus Q&A session with the filmmakers. We will have various individuals and businesses on site to share information on sustainability, we will provide free seed packets courtesy of Mountain Valley Gardens, there will be door prizes provided by local businesses, and refreshments will be available for purchase with proceeds going to support future Sustainable Klamath educational outreach events.
This is a free event, but seating is limited, so arrive when the doors open at 6:30 p.m. to secure your seat.
There are many ways to invest in our planet and ensure a sustainable future for all. Join us this Earth Day to learn about the importance of the soil that nourishes us and how we can nourish it in return. If you would like to find more information on sustainability, volunteer or donate, please visit SustainableKlamath.org
Alissa Oliverson is chairwoman of Sustainable Klamath, Solid Waste Action Committee (SWAC)
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A new scholarship for a Klamath Union senior was announced recently by the Pelican Education Foundation, thanks to Klamath Falls Dr. Alden B. Glidden.
The Glidden STEM Scholarship, which Glidden helped to fund, will provide a senior with $4,000, divided into $1,000 payments for each of four years.
Glidden chose STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) for a specific reason.
“I feel those disciplines create the greatest benefit for the world,” Glidden said. “It will be used to further the college career of a graduating Klamath Union High School senior.”
Applications, along with letters of recommendation, will be due by May 15 every year. Among other requirements, including a GPA of 3.0 or above and plans to major in a STEM field, students must also show financial need.
Glidden, who earned his Doctor of Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, has since been a doctor in family medicine at Sky Lakes Medical Center.
Overall, the funds will be used for the student’s college tuition, as well as paying for books, housing and a food plan.
The Glidden STEM Scholarship will be awarded in June of this year. It is the only scholarship through the Pelican Education Foundation that will follow a student for four years as long as they meet the scholarships’ grade point average requirements.
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| 2022-04-06T01:05:45Z
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America is aging and so is Klamath County.
According to Jonathan Vespa, a demographer with the U.S. Census Bureau, “by 2034, there will be 77 million people 65 years and older compared to 76.5 million under the age of 18.” This trend is already happening in Klamath County. The US Census Bureau estimates from July 1, 2021, show that 21.7% of Klamath County residents were over 65 while 21.5% were under the age of 18.
As people age, life often becomes harder. It’s not as easy to change a light bulb, weed a garden, make a meal, or go about daily life. According to the Administration for Community Living, “someone turning age 65 today has almost a 70% chance of needing some type of long-term care services and supports in their remaining years.”
Although life gets more challenging, many seniors prefer living in their own homes as long as possible. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines aging in place as “the ability to live in one’s own home and community safely, independently and comfortably regardless of age, income or ability level.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many seniors found themselves isolated from loved ones and family for an extended period of time. This isolation, for many, led to feelings of loneliness, abandonment, despair and fear.
But during the month of May, which is Older Adult Awareness Month, Klamath Basin Behavioral Health and volunteer teams are offering a three-Saturday Aging in Place event to provide some in-home assistance, and some company, to seniors.
“As one of the Silver Tsunami members, I realize the importance of being in my own home and feeling safe and secure,” said Patty Card, event coordinator. “This can be making sure that I cannot fall or trip, that my smoke alarms are all working, getting to visit with others, having flowers in my yard, and how that can make my day so much better. My thought behind the Aging in Place event is to provide interaction and support, and to honor the amazing older age group in our community. We would not be the community we are without these outstanding residents.”
KBBH is seeking volunteers of all ages to help lend a hand. The volunteer days will be the first 3 Saturdays in May. Volunteer for one, two or all days. Volunteers will be assigned to a team and will help with various tasks like planting flowers, repairing steps/ramp issues, installing shower grab bars, testing/replacing smoke/carbon monoxide alarms and much more.
For those who cannot volunteer, KBBH is welcoming donations. Some items they are looking for are non-slip step tape, LED light bulbs, 2x4s, nails and screws, rug tape, first aid kits, smoke/carbon alarms, garbage bags, batteries of all sizes, or donations to purchase supplies.
Finally, if you know a senior who could benefit from these services, then please reach out to KBBH to get the work request and release form to sign them up. If you’re interested in volunteering or donating, or if you know a senior who could use some help, then you can pick up applications or drop off donations at 2210 Eldorado, or email Patty at pcard@kbbh.org and she will send the forms out. If you have any questions, email, text, or call Patty Card at pcard@kbbh.org or 458-200-4257.
Although these services aren’t a silver bullet, they can be a silver lining for seniors who need a little bit of extra help in their golden years.
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“Treat others how you want to be treated” my mom has always told me. My picture is about sharing and fairness. The girl in the picture is not only sharing her cookie, she is giving half of her cookie to her friend so it’s fair. When you share and be fair to people you’re leading by example. When people see that, they could be encouraged to do the same thing. If everybody
does this, the world would be a better place. There are many others that might be less fortunate than you. Be kind, be fair and share with others.
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Keno Elementary School fourth-grader Abbi Brown is the regional and statewide winner of the 2022 Character Counts essay and drawing contest.
The Character Counts essay contest, an annual event hosted by the National Association for Family and Community Education (NAFCE), is designed to help students learn about six pillars of character -- citizenship, trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, and caring. Each year, NAFCE chooses (via a rotation) one pillar to showcase for the nationwide contest. This year the selected pillar is fairness. Students create a drawing and then write an essay that explains their drawing and why the selected pillar is important.
Several students in Shelley Rosser’s Keno Elementary fourth-grade class participated this year. Rosser marketed it to students as an extra credit assignment. Brown won the statewide contest after submitting her work to local and state judges.
With her first place victory, Brown will receive two $100 Visa gift cards, one for her first-place finish in the local contest, and one for her first-place finish in the state contest. Her work also will be entered in NAFCE’s national competition. The winner of the national contest wins a $250 Visa gift card.
When asked how she plans on spending her winnings, Brown said that she will “put it in savings for college.
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Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, Oregon, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and undertrained. Coronavirus patients flooded the clinic for two years, and Moore struggled to keep up.
Then the stakes became clear. On March 25, about 2,400 miles away in a Tennessee courtroom, former nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of two felonies and facing eight years in prison for a fatal medication mistake.
Like many nurses, Moore wondered if that could be her. She’d made medication errors before, although none so grievous. But what about the next one? In the pressure cooker of pandemic-era health care, another mistake felt inevitable.
Four days after Vaught’s verdict, Moore quit. She said Vaught’s verdict contributed to her decision.
“It’s not worth the possibility or the likelihood that this will happen,” Moore said, “if I’m in a situation where I’m set up to fail.”
In the wake of Vaught’s trial ― an extremely rare case of a health care worker being criminally prosecuted for a medical error ― nurses and nursing organizations have condemned the verdict through tens of thousands of social media posts, shares, comments, and videos. They warn that the fallout will ripple through their profession, demoralizing and depleting the ranks of nurses already stretched thin by the pandemic. Ultimately, they say, it will worsen health care for all.
Statements from the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the National Medical Association each said Vaught’s conviction set a “dangerous precedent.” Linda Aiken, a nursing and sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that although Vaught’s case is an “outlier,” it will make nurses less forthcoming about mistakes.
“One thing that everybody agrees on is it’s going to have a dampening effect on the reporting of errors or near misses, which then has a detrimental effect on safety,” Aiken said. “The only way you can really learn about errors in these complicated systems is to have people say, ‘Oh, I almost gave the wrong drug because …’
“Well, nobody is going to say that now.”
Fear and outrage about Vaught’s case have swirled among nurses on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. On TikTok, a video platform increasingly popular among medical professionals, videos with the “#RaDondaVaught” hashtag totaled more than 47 million views.
Vaught’s supporters catapulted a plea for her clemency to the top of Change.org, a petition website. And thousands also joined a Facebook group planning to gather in protest outside Vaught’s sentencing hearing in May.
Ashley Bartholomew, 36, a Tampa, Florida, nurse who followed the trial through YouTube and Twitter, echoed the fear of many others. Nurses have long felt forced into “impossible situations” by mounting responsibilities and staffing shortages, she said, particularly in hospitals that operate with lean staffing models.
“The big response we are seeing is because all of us are acutely aware of how bad the pandemic has exacerbated the existing problems,” Bartholomew said. And “setting a precedent for criminally charging [for] an error is only going to make this exponentially worse.”
Vaught, who worked at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, was convicted in the death of Charlene Murphey, a 75-year-old patient who died from a drug mix-up in 2017. Murphey was prescribed a dose of a sedative, Versed, but Vaught accidentally withdrew a powerful paralyzer, vecuronium, from an automated medication-dispensing cabinet and administered it to the patient.
Prosecutors argued that Vaught overlooked many obvious signs she’d withdrawn the wrong drug and did not monitor Murphey after she was given a deadly dose. Vaught owned up to theerror but said it was an honest mistake ― not a crime.
Some of Vaught’s peers support the conviction.
Scott Shelp, a California nurse with a small YouTube channel, posted a 26-minute self-described “unpopular opinion” that Vaught deserves to serve prison time. “We need to stick up for each other,” he said, “but we cannot defend the indefensible.”
Shelp said he would never make the same error as Vaught and “neither would any competent nurse.” Regarding concerns that the conviction would discourage nurses from disclosing errors, Shelp said “dishonest” nurses “should be weeded out” of the profession anyway.
“In any other circumstance, I can’t believe anyone ― including nurses ― would accept ‘I didn’t mean to’ as a serious defense,” Shelp said. “Punishment for a harmful act someone actually did is justice.”
Vaught was acquitted of reckless homicide but convicted of a lesser charge, criminally negligent homicide, and gross neglect of an impaired adult. As outrage spread across social media, the Nashville district attorney’s office defended the conviction, saying in a statement it was “not an indictment against the nursing profession or the medical community.”
“This case is, and always has been, about the one single individual who made 17 egregious actions, and inactions, that killed an elderly woman,” said the office’s spokesperson, Steve Hayslip. “The jury found that Vaught’s actions were so far below the protocols and standard level of care, that the jury (which included a longtime nurse and another health care professional) returned a guilty verdict in less than four hours.”
The office of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed he is not considering clemency for Vaught despite the Change.org petition, which had amassed about 187,000 signatures as of April 4.
Lee spokesperson Casey Black said that outside of death penalty cases the governor relies on the Board of Parole to recommend defendants for clemency, which happens only after sentencing and a board investigation.
But the controversy around Vaught’s case is far from over. As of April 4, more than 8,200 people had joined a Facebook group planning a march in protest outside the courthouse during her sentencing May 13.
Among the event’s planners is Tina Visant, the host of “ Good Nurse Bad Nurse,” a podcast that followed Vaught’s case and opposed her prosecution.
“I don’t know how Nashville is going to handle it,” Visant said of the protest during a recent episode about Vaught’s trial. “There are a lot of people coming from all over.”
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For more than a quarter century, the U.S. government has been sending an unmistakable message to poor, single mothers: Get married. If America genuinely wants to address poverty and achieve gender equality, this has to change.
Readers can be forgiven for missing last year’s 25th anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which proclaimed that “marriage is the foundation of a successful society” and fulfilled then-President Bill Clinton’s earlier campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it.” There wasn’t much to celebrate. A full generation later, the share of children in single-parent homes has increased, child poverty is mostly unchanged, and employment among unmarried (and married) mothers has plateaued.
In hindsight, one shouldn’t have expected better from legislation so steeped in cultural myths. Single mothers had been labeled a social problem since the 1960s, even though their portrayal — as welfare queens and teen moms who didn’t want to work — never matched the statistical reality. Just before reform, the median benefit for a typical welfare family (a mother and two children) was a miserly $366 a month (or $658 including the value of food stamps), 70% of female recipients were older than 25, and about half stayed on welfare no more than a year — most commonly leaving the program for a job. In the three decades before 1996 (and the quarter century that followed) unmarried mothers worked more than married mothers. Welfare rolls were increasing in the early 1990s, but that was in no small part because the U.S. had just been through a deep recession.
True, families headed by unmarried mothers were very likely to be poor. (This is still the case: More than 30% of them are below the poverty line today.) This wasn’t for lack of effort. Many jobs in the U.S. didn’t (and still don’t) pay enough to support a family on a single income. The inflation-adjusted hourly wage for the bottom 10% of female earners has hardly budged in 50 years: It was $8.24 in 1973, and it reached $10.52 just before the pandemic hit. At that rate, someone who works 35 hours a week, the national average, earns just over $19,000 a year. Worse, such low-wage jobs offer little security, with fluctuating, insufficient hours or frequent layoffs.
Instead of addressing this economic problem head on, Congress chose to address the social phenomenon — the unmarried part, rather than the poor part. The 1996 legislation turned welfare into block grants to states, which had broad discretion. The money could be given as a temporary cash benefit to women and children, but the other three specified uses were: promoting work and marriage, ending out-of-wedlock pregnancy and encouraging two-parent families. Congress averred that mothers should be married, then gave states money to support the effort.
States have treated the block grants (called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF) as a slush fund, to support things as varied as child care subsidies, drug courts, college scholarships, textbooks, preschool, free marriage classes and pregnancy crisis centers that counsel against abortion. Sometimes the money simply plugs holes in the state budget. In at least one case, the funds have been grossly embezzled.
Some would argue that the references to marriage in the 1996 law were merely rhetorical, not intended as an anti-poverty policy. Maybe. But Congress soon clarified in the Defense of Marriage Act that marriage was between a man and a woman, and reformed the tax code to be more pro-marriage. Follow-on proposals included earmarking TANF spending for marriage counseling. Marriage promotion remains prominent in anti-child-poverty agendas today.
Others would argue that the legislation was about promoting work, and should be viewed in the context of other congressional action, such as the increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit, which subsidizes single mothers’ low wages. But if lawmakers want to encourage women to work, there are much better ways: Research unambiguously demonstrates that the two most important policies are mandatory paid family leave and broadly subsidized child care. The U.S. remains the only developed country with neither.
Congress enshrined into law the opinion that mothers should be married. However hollow that 1996 avowal to marriage was, Congress has not, in the 25 years since, said that mothers should have paid family leave, or affordable child care, or a wage that lifts a family out of poverty. The persistence of poverty among unmarried mothers offers a reminder that economic problems need economic solutions.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Nearly 50,000 customers lost power during a spring storm with high winds, rain including some thunderstorms and mountain snow in areas of the Pacific Northwest Monday.
Puget Sound Energy reported more than 360 outages Monday affecting over 48,000 customers in western Washington. Seattle City Light reported more than 7,200 customers without power as of about 5 p.m. Monday. That number had fallen to about 1,500 by 8 p.m.
Portland General Electric said about 10,000 customers had lost power in southwest Washington, in Portland, Oregon, and surrounding areas, after earlier reports of more than 18,500 customers without power.
In eastern Washington and northern Idaho, Avista reported more than 5,000 customers were without power Monday afternoon.
A winter storm warning was in effect until 8 a.m. Tuesday for areas of the Washington Cascade Mountains above 2,500 feet, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy snow was expected with additional accumulations of up to 2 feet (61 centimeters) possible and gusty winds.
The winter storm warning includes Stevens and Snoqualmie passes.
A winter storm warning was also in effect for the Olympic mountains with up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) of additional snow accumulation.
The heaviest snow is expected Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning, according to KING 5 Meteorologist Adam Claibon.
The weather systems could bring up to an inch of rain to some areas of the Puget Sound region by Tuesday.
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Leonard Super helps place a sign that reads, "Genocidal Murderer" over the Kit Carson sign along the northbound lane of Crater Lake Parkway at Kit Carson Park in Klamath Falls as part of a protest pushing for the park to be renamed on Nov. 24, 2021.
Leonard Super helps place a sign that reads, "Genocidal Murderer" over the Kit Carson sign along the northbound lane of Crater Lake Parkway at Kit Carson Park in Klamath Falls as part of a protest pushing for the park to be renamed on Nov. 24, 2021.
Kit Carson Park in Klamath Falls will be named Eulalona Park after the former Indigenous village in the basin.
The Klamath Falls City Council approved the name change at its April 4 meeting.
The council voted 4-0 to pick Eulalona over three other finalists — Sunshine Park, Discovery Park and Yadenite Park. The latter is a unique strain and sometimes glossy type of rocks and stones found in the Klamath basin. A local trailhead is also named Eulalona.
The council voted in January to rename Kit Carson Park.
Carson was a 19th century frontiersman, fur trapper and U.S. Army officer who led battles against Native American tribes and expeditions through Oregon and other Western states.
Carson’s folklore persona has been increasingly linked to Indian massacres and mistreatment including the killings of the Klamath people in 1848.
There have been scores of statues, parks, streets and schools renamed across the U.S. as progressives as well as Indigenous and African American push against memorializing Confederate generals, former slave owners and those who persecuted Indians and others.
There was limited council debate on the name change and there were no public comments made.
In February, the city asked the public for potential names for the renamed park. They were 399 names submitted by the public. Other suggested names of the park included Pelican, Crater Lake, Winema, Hot Springs, Maklak and Fermin.
There were a number of suggestions from conservatives and those who did not want the park name changed. They proposed keeping the park’s name or naming it after former President Donald Trump or more derisive names such as Woke Park, White Guilt and Snowflake Park.
Other residents suggested naming the park after Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin or Pussy Galore — a character from a James Bond movie.
The council will finalize the renaming at its next meeting. Efforts to rename the park were made by an equity task force established by the city in 2020. City staff began working on the potential name change last year.
It will cost the city as much as $5,000 to rename the park and install new signage.
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The Distinguished Service Cross and the War Cross of Military Valor, which is the Italian equivalent of the Medal of Honor, or Medaglia al Valor Militaire, were award to George Hodgdon for his service in Italy during World War II. They are found in an Oregon home. Hodgdon died in 1969
The Distinguished Service Cross and the War Cross of Military Valor, which is the Italian equivalent of the Medal of Honor, or Medaglia al Valor Militaire, were award to George Hodgdon for his service in Italy during World War II. They are found in an Oregon home. Hodgdon died in 1969
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The Battle of Enzio in Italy during World War II. A late veteran's medals from the battle were found in a home being demolished in Oregon.
The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs is trying to find a home for long-lost World War II medals found at a home that was being demolished.
The state agency is looking for relatives and descendants of George E. Hodgdon after his Distinguished Service Cross and the Italian War Cross of Military Valor (Medaglia al Valor Militaire) were found at home in Lake Oswego.
Hodgdon served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and fought in Italy including the Battle of Anzio in 1944. Approximately 12,000 men died during the battle between U.S. and Allied forces and the Axis forces of Germany and Italy.
The framed medals were saved by a neighbor, who is also a military veteran, when the home was being torn down.
Hodgdon died in 1969 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. He had no living spouse and previously lived in Pennsylvania, according to ODVA.
His citation for the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross reads in part: “Inspiring his men by his own fearless determination under heavy fire, he led his company to its objective where he lost consciousness. First Lieutenant Hodgdon’s determined courage and aggressive leadership reflect the finest traditions of the Armed Forces of the United States.”
The war medals are currently in the care of the Oregon veterans agency.
“These medals represent the enduring appreciation of two grateful nations for the courageous and exemplary service Lieutenant Hodgdon performed in World War II more than 75 years ago,” said ODVA Director Kelly Fitzpatrick. “They belong with the Hodgdon family. We are grateful that the community recognized the importance of preserving these pieces of our nation’s military history and would appreciate the public’s assistance with any information that may help in returning them to the family.”
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An Illinois man is accused of using Facebook to pressure young girls including in Oregon to send him explicit photos and webcam clips. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
An Illinois man is accused of using Facebook to pressure young girls including in Oregon to send him explicit photos and webcam clips. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
A tip from a concerned Oregon mom about an alleged internet predator coercing explicit photos from young girls has uncovered more victims across the U.S, according to police.
Michael Anthony Ferris, 43, of Mill Shoals, Illinois, is accused of pressuring a young Oregon girl to send him nude pictures of herself via Facebook.
A grand jury in Jackson County has indicted Ferris on coercion charges as well as using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct.
The alleged crimes occurred in May 2020 when the mother of the girl reported to police that her daughter had been contacted on Facebook and was pressured to share explicit photos.
The Southern Oregon Child Exploitation Team’s investigation uncovered 29 alleged underage victims throughout the U.S. That includes another girl in Oregon, according to police. The Oregon police task force worked with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on the investigation.
Ferris is jailed in Illinois. He faces 27 felony charges including distribution of child pornography, sexual exploitations of minors, cyberstalking and interstate extortion.
According to Oregon police, Ferris would pressure and threaten underage girls across the U.S. to send him explicit images and webcam footage via Facebook and Facebook Messenger. He would use fake names such as “Sammy Gray” and “Sarah Mansfield” when approaching the girls on social media.
Investigators say they are looking for more potential victims, including in the Pacific Northwest. The ages of the alleged victims were not released by police.
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EWA BEACH, Hawaii (KTIV4) -- Three people were shot inside an illegal game room in an Ewa Beach neighborhood, early Tuesday morning.
The shooting happened at a home in a neighborhood on Hanakahi Street around 1:45 a.m., Honolulu Police (HPD) investigators said. HPD says it has opened an attempted murder investigation due to this incident.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services (EMS) says its paramedics were sent out on an “unknown” call with a “questionable life status.” EMS said that when they arrived they found two men both suffering from gunshot wounds.
One of the victims, only identified as a man in his mid-30s, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, EMS said. The second victim, a 25-year-old man, was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
EMS did not mention a third victim. However, HPD confirmed a 64-year-old woman also suffered serious injuries in the shooting.
Police are still investigating. So far, there has been no word about what led up to the shooting and there has been no word on arrests. Investigators have only said the suspect is a man. No other descriptors were given.
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
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Tiger Woods says "as of right now I feel like I am going to play" in the Masters -- and he thinks he can win it.
"I don't have any qualms about what I can do physically from a golf standpoint," he said Tuesday at a news conference on the 25th anniversary of his historic victory at the 1997 Masters, responding to a question about whether he can win the tournament.
Woods, who has won the tournament five times, is scheduled to tee off for the first round in Augusta, Georgia, at 10:34 a.m. ET Thursday morning.
The 15-time major champion has been away from competitive golf for over a year, having suffered serious leg injuries in a car crash in February 2021.
"As of right now, I feel like I am going to play," Woods said, ending weeks of speculation. "As of right now."
Woods, 46, had played a few practice rounds at Augusta National, including one on Monday, which fueled rumors of a comeback.
"I've worked hard. My team has been unbelievable. I've been lucky to have had great surgeons and great PTs and physios that have worked on me virtually every day. And we've worked hard to get to this point ... It's been a tough, tough year," said Woods, who had multiple surgeries to his right leg after the crash.
Woods is grouped for the first two rounds with South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen and Joaquin Niemann of Chile. They're scheduled to tee off the second round at 1:41 p.m. ET on Friday.
His dramatic return comes 25 years after the 1997 Masters, the first of his 15 major championships. Woods was only 21 when he transformed the game -- and his life -- by becoming the first nonwhite golfer to win the sports most storied tournament.
Woods said it is "hard to believe it's been 25 years."
"It's great to be back and be able to feel the energy and the excitement of the patrons again."
"Very, very thankful," Woods said when asked by CNN's Patrick Snell what words would he choose to reflect on the last 14 months.
"Thankful for just everyone's support. Everyone who has been involved in my process of the work I've put in each and every day. The people I work with, my whole team... All the support from the players out here."
Getting this far, he said, was a success in itself.
"Now everything is focused on how do I get myself into the position where I'm on that back nine on Sunday with a chance" to win again, Woods added.
"When I decide to hang it up, when I feel like I can't win anymore, then that will be it," he said. "But I feel like I can still do it, and I feel like I still have the hands to do it, the body's moving good enough."
Woods last won the tournament in 2019, his first victory at one of golf's four majors in 11 years and one that had sportwriters celebrating his comeback from injury. That win followed career-saving spinal fusion surgery -- his fourth back procedure (of now five).
'Everybody needs him'
One of his playing partners seemed certain of what will happen on Thursday.
"It's not shocking because he's the greatest player to ever play," Fred Couples told reporters before Woods' announcement.
"If he can walk around here in 72 holes, he'll contend. He's too good."
And 2021 FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay says Woods' return is the "greatest thing" for golf.
"He's a good example of life's not always perfect, and so it's really exciting to see him on his highs," he told the media.
"And so I hope that he is able to tee it up this week and play well, and obviously that's the greatest thing for our sport. There's definitely a different feel in tournaments that he tees it up in."
In the car crash last year in Los Angeles, Woods suffered comminuted open fractures that affected his right tibia and fibula, which are the two long bones directly under the knee.
He admitted in February this year that he was "frustrated" with his recovery and conceded he won't be able to play a full PGA Tour schedule again. At the time, he said his right leg had been "altered" and that the hard part of tournament golf would be the walking on a course with its undulations.
Someone who knows a thing or two about coming back from serious injuries is four-time major winner Brooks Koepka.
The 31-year-old has had to endure his own share of injury concerns, missing sizable time over recent years due to surgery recovery and rehab.
And Koepka, who comes into the 2022 Masters as one of the favorites for the Green jacket, said he understands what Woods might be going through.
"I was in somewhat of his shoes trying last year two weeks after surgery. This place isn't exactly an easy walk," he told the media. "I understand what he's up against. It'll be difficult. But if anybody can do it, it's him."
Koepka added: "I'm happy he's becoming healthier and able to play golf ... we need him, the game needs him, everybody needs him, the fans need him, all that stuff. But at the end of the day everybody is just out here competing. I'm worried about myself and I'm sure everybody else is worried about themselves."
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Dawn Plitzuweit introduced as WVU head women’s basketball coach
Sixth head coach in history of Mountaineer women’s program
MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) - The Dawn Plitzuweit era has begun at West Virginia University.
Plitzuweit was introduced as the sixth head coach of the WVU women’s basketball program Tuesday morning, opening up a new chapter for the Mountaineer program.
“West Virginia women’s basketball is a national brand and it’s a brand of basketball that has a great legacy and history behind it,” Plitzuweit said in her introductory speech. “To have an opportunity to be here and be the next head women’s basketball coach is something that is a dream.”
Coach P, as she’s known, outlined what it’s going to look like within the program under herself and her staff, mentioning they’ll be playing “positionless basketball,” something she championed at South Dakota.
“From a recruiting standpoint, it’s something that a lot of players want to be able to play in that type of a style and that type of a system,” Plitzuweit said. “I think it’s a strength of our staff to develop players and to continue to help them grow their games and stretch their games.”
Plitzuweit’s speech and the introduction ended in similar fashion - with Country Roads.
“Let’s do this. Let’s build this together,” Plitzueweit said. “Hail West Virginia and let’s go Mountaineers!”
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Bobby Rydell, 60s teen idol and ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ star, dies
(AP) - Bobby Rydell, a pompadoured heartthrob of early rock ‘n roll who was a star of radio, television and the movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie,” died Tuesday.
Rydell died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital in a suburb of his hometown of Philadelphia, according to a statement posted by his marketing and event coordinator Maria Novey.
Rydell, who credited a 2012 kidney and liver transplant with extending his life, was 79.
Along with James Darren, Fabian and Frankie Avalon, Rydell was among a wave of wholesome teen idols who emerged after Elvis Presley and before the rise of the Beatles.
Between 1959 and 1964, he had nearly three dozen Top 40 singles including “Wild One,” “Volare,” “Wildwood Days,” “The Cha-Cha-Cha” and “Forget Him,” a song of consolation for a bereft girl that helped inspire the Beatles’ classic “She Loves You.”
He had recurring roles on “The Red Skelton Show” and other television programs, and 1963′s “Bye Bye Birdie” was rewritten to give Rydell a major part as the boyfriend of Ann-Margret. He didn’t want to move to Hollywood, however, and “Birdie” became his only significant movie role — though the high school in the hit ‘70s musical “Grease” was named for him.
Rydell never strayed far from his Philadelphia roots, living in the area for most of his life. The block of 11th Street where he grew up was christened Bobby Rydell Boulevard by his hometown in 1995.
“I never thought of myself as a celebrity,” he told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003. “I was just a guy who went out there and worked.”
He was born Robert Ridarelli in a South Philadelphia neighborhood that would also produce teen idols Darren, Fabian and Avalon. They knew each other as children — Rydell played drums with Avalon on trumpet in a group called Rocco and the Saints.
Before he graced the covers of teen magazines and movie screens, Rydell made his bones as a youngster in Philadelphia clubs.
He made his performance debut as a 7-year-old drummer, not a singer. His first drum kit was a gift from his father, Al Ridarelli, who inspired his son’s choice of instrument by taking him to see Gene Krupa perform.
At age 9, he debuted on an amateur television show and became its regular drummer for three years.
Rydell got his big break in 1959 on “American Bandstand,” which originally was broadcast from Philadelphia. His first hit, “Kissing Time,” quickly followed, and the skinny 17-year-old with a pompadour haircut rocketed to stardom. Rydell and his fellow Philadelphia performers were ideal for “Bandstand” host Dick Clark, who sought to make rock n’ roll palatable to young and old. He also made live appearances nationwide on a tour organized by Clark.
Changing musical tastes ushered in by the Beatles and the rest of the British Invasion defused the hit-making careers of Rydell and his compatriots, and he continued performing and recording music with limited success in the late 1960s and 1970s. But in 1985, he joined his old friends Avalon and Fabian for what they thought would be a few appearances. They dubbed themselves “The Golden Boys of Bandstand,” and the shows were so successful that the trio ended up touring for three years and performing 300 shows nationwide.
“We weren’t out to prove anything. We just said to ourselves, ‘Here are three Italian kids from South Philadelphia, born and raised within two blocks of each other. Let’s go out there and have fun,’” Rydell told The Atlantic City Weekly in 2006. “That hasn’t changed. I think people see that attitude coming from the stage. It’s a fun show to watch — that’s what’s made it so successful. We have a great time doing it.”
Rydell’s childhood sweetheart and first wife, Camille, died in 2003.
He is survived by his second wife, Linda Hoffman, whom he married in 2009, along with son Robert Ridarelli, daughter Jennifer Dulin, and five grandchildren.
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Former AP staffer JoAnn Loviglio contributed biographical material to this report.
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Fox bites man, putting Capitol Hill on high alert
WASHINGTON (AP) — Capitol Hill has a fox problem. And that’s not the lead-in to a joke.
Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., learned firsthand Monday evening while walking to the Capitol for votes. Now he’s undergoing a series of four rabies shots out of an abundance of caution.
Bera said he felt something lunge at him from behind as he walked near one of the Senate office buildings. He turned and used his umbrella to fend off what he thought would be a small dog, but he soon realized he was tangling with a fox.
Bera said the encounter lasted about 15 seconds. A bystander yelled to alert others and the fox fled as U.S. Capitol Police officers ran up on the scene. A medical doctor, Bera looked for puncture wounds. He didn’t see evidence of any, but there was some abrasion, so he consulted the Capitol physician, who told him not to take any chances and to get treated.
He said he went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after votes for the first of a series of four shots.
“I would say it’s the most unusual day on the Hill in 10 years,” Bera said of his experience.
Of course, there were many joking references to Fox News at the Capitol on Tuesday. But the House Sergeant at Arms was serious when telling lawmakers and their staffs Tuesday afternoon that there had been multiple recent fox encounters and that the animals should not be approached.
The warning noted that there are possibly several fox dens on the Capitol grounds and that animal control personnel would be seeking to trap and locate any that they find.
In at least one case, they were successful. Capitol Police tweeted pictures of one fox safely captured in a cage.
Bera harbored no ill will toward the culprit.
“Hopefully, the animal can be relocated,” he said.
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Twitter says it’s testing an ‘edit’ button
(AP) - Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact that edit-function fan Elon Musk was just revealed as the company’s largest shareholder and now sits on its board.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.” So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
Many Twitter users — among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry and McDonald’s corporate account — have long begged for an edit button. The company itself recently teased users with an April Fool’s Day tweet saying “we are working on an edit button.” The official Twitter account said Tuesday that the April 1 tweet wasn’t a joke and that it has been working on it since last year.
Twitter also said it didn’t get the idea from a Twitter poll launched by Tesla CEO Musk Monday evening. Musk, himself a Twitter power user, asked followers if they wanted an edit button, cheekily misspelling “yes” as “yse” and “no” as “on.” More than 4 million people had voted as of Tuesday evening.
Musk also tweeted that he is looking forward to making “significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Twitter’s vice president of consumer product, Jay Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday that an edit function has for years been Twitter’s most requested new feature, noting that people want to fix mistakes, typos, and “hot takes.”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said that Twitter had considered an edit button, but in a January 2020 Q&A maintained that “we’ll probably never do it.” He noted that Twitter’s current setup keeps the spirit of its text-message origins — texts can’t be edited — and the confusion that could result from users making changes to a tweet that has already been heavily circulated by others. Dorsey stepped down as CEO in November 2021.
People who study Twitter also say adding an edit button would likely change the nature of Twitter, making it less valuable as a historical warehouse that stores official statements by politicians and other high-profile people. Twitter, for better or worse, “has become the de facto news wire,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media who researches propaganda.
Tweets are often embedded in news stories, which could cause problems if the users edit important or controversial tweets without leaving evidence of the original statement. Grygiel suggested instead giving Twitter users a window of time to edit their tweets before they publish them.
Letting powerful Twitter users edit their tweets means they would not be historical statements anymore, Grygiel said. “We need to think about what the implications are, what these tweets are, who has power.”
The company acknowledged those concerns Tuesday evening when Sullivan tweeted: “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation. Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”
Musk, too, had said that a proposal for a post-publication edit window of a few minutes " sounds reasonable.”
Musk is someone who could seemingly use an edit button. His tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 per share, when funding was not secured, led to a $40 million SEC settlement and a requirement that Musk’s tweets be approved by a corporate lawyer. Musk is still embroiled in a fight over that settlement.
Twitter had earlier seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to Musk’s poll. Twitter’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, retweeted the poll with a seeming reference to an earlier tweet by Musk, saying “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” Musk had used the same language in a March tweet describing another of his polls that asked whether Twitter adheres to free speech principles.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West to northwest winds 40 to 50 MPH with gusts up to
75 MPH expected.
* WHERE...Southeast Wyoming along and east of the Laramie Range.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM MDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds may be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers. There will be an extreme risk for
vehicle blow overs! Winds of this magnitude may also lead to
tree, power line, and property damage. Secure loose items.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts
of 58 mph or more can lead to property damage.
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James Floyd Cooper 1955-2022 In loving memory of James Floyd Cooper, who was called home to be with our Lord on March 12, 2022, Jimmy was born Oct 21, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas and moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming at 14 months in 1956. His wisdom will live on through his legacy, which was to love faithfully and trust in those he loved. He will live in our hearts and memories forever. He will be deeply missed by his family and many friends. He was talented in so many way's and enjoyed working on car's, mini bikes, motorcycle's, rebuilding engines, boating, camping, four wheeling. and Rock & Roll . Rest in Peace Big brother. Memorial services will be 2:00pm Friday at Cheyenne National Cemetery.
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Merritt B Jensen 1918-2021 Merritt Jensen passed away peacefully in his sleep at Mennonite Village the morning of October 22, just a few months prior to his 104th birthday. Born in Brookston, Indiana on January 2, 1918, he was the second child of six to Danish immigrant Carl Edvard and Lola Catherine Anderson. After high school, he began his college career at the University of Nebraska Omaha and later transferred to Peru State Teachers College in Peru, Nebraska where he was involved in student government as well as athletics. While at Peru State, he met his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Collin. They were married on June 8, 1941. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Office Management and Coaching. He later completed his Master's in Educational Administration from University of Iowa. He was the principal of Cheyenne High School from 1955 to 1960, and was then selected to be the principal of the newly constructed Cheyenne East High where he guided students until 1973. He then served as Director of Secondary Education for the Laramie County School District until 1974. He loved interacting with his students and could always be found supervising at sports events as well as supporting other extracurricular activities. From Cheyenne, he embarked on two overseas assignments - as Principal at Taipei American School, Taiwan, and then as Headmaster at Nagoya International School, Japan. After retiring, he and his wife retired to Corvallis, Oregon where they had been stationed during WWII. For the majority of his adult life, he was involved in Rotary where he assisted with numerous projects. In Corvallis, he volunteered with the Urban Forestry Program for tree planting projects with the Parks and Recreation Department, and took Master Gardener classes. He was a very active member of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) working on numerous committees and projects to help serve the Corvallis community. He also served as an Ambassador for City of Corvallis Chamber of Commerce. Over the years, he became the Oregon State University Super Fan for the Women's Basketball and Volleyball programs. He would attend all the practices and games and sent the teams off on their road trips with cheers from the parking lot. He reveled in getting to know all the players, coaches, staff and family members over the years. His kindness, generosity and ability to find good in everyone endeared him to all whom he met. He is survived by daughter Jennyan Jensen of Lacey, Washington; son Merrill and daughter-in-law Kelly of Corvallis; grandsons and families Hans, Kirsten, Freya, and Maggie Jensen of Arlington, Massachusetts; and Christian, Daniele, and Dresden Jensen of San Antonio, Texas. A memorial service will take place at First Christian Church (DoC) in Corvallis on April 23. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to one of the following organizations: your local hospice provider, First Christian Church (DoC) of Corvallis, or the Oregon State Women's Basketball Association through Rebounders. For the complete obituary, and to make your own tribute, please see the obituaries tab on the website of DeMoss-Durdan Funeral Home. Many thanks to DeMoss-Durdan for making this available to friends and family of Merritt.
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Gene "Rocky" R. Roccabruna 1936-2022 Gene "Rocky" Roccabruna, 85, passed away March 31, 2022 in Cheyenne. He was born December 13, 1936 to hard-working Italian immigrants, Olindo and Linda Roccabruna in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Rocky attended the University of Wyoming and served in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. While he was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma he met his wife, Betsy, at a picnic for young Catholics. He became a captain in the Reserves before he was discharged and earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Rocky and Betsy grew their family as his engineering career moved them around the state. When he retired as Director of the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) in 2000, after starting work there in 1955, he was the only employee who had worked there since before the interstate system was built. Rocky took a hiatus from WYDOT when he started Tripac Construction and found success in the oil patch. Family and economic challenges led him back to WYDOT. A dynamic leader, his brutal honesty weaved with diplomacy, he was a force to be reckoned with. He was a true public servant - he credited success to all the people under him, thanking staff across from all parts of the Department - from those fixing fences to those negotiating budgets. Rocky was profoundly proud of his family - always eager to share updates with colleagues, friends and anyone in his company. An engaging storyteller, he drew in audiences with his energy and enthusiasm. He could be as silly and jovial as he was stern and strict - entertaining his grandchildren with cartoon voices and made-up names. He and Betsy were the happiest when they tore up the dance floor and traveled to visit family and friends. Rocky was an avid hunter with precise marksmanship that acquired many trophies. His legacy lives on in his family who continue his commendable work ethic and commitment to values of family, faith and community. They will think of him when they enjoy outdoor adventures, admiring the wonders of God in nature as he did. He is preceded in death by his parents; his wife; and granddaughters, Monica and Jacqueline. He is survived by his sister, Carol (Augie) Kaumo; his children: Mark Roccabruna of Cheyenne, Julie (Rick) Estes of Sheridan, Gina (John Ed) Anderson of Shell, Teresa (Joseph) Browne of Ft. Collins, CO, Pamela (Jason Beazer) Roccabruna of Tewksbury, NJ, Nancy Roccabruna of Cheyenne, and Amanda (Brett) Eby of Helena, MT; as well as 20 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Donations in memorial can be made to the Alzheimer's Association or St. Mary's Cathedral of Cheyenne, WY. A Funeral Liturgy will be at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2022 at St. Mary's Cathedral with a reception to follow in the Knights of Columbus Hall. Services are under the care of Schrader, Aragon and Jacoby Funeral Home and condolences may be offered at www.schradercares.com.
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1945-2022 Joe A. Trevino, 76, of Cheyenne died March 31. He was born September 2, 1945. Vigil for the Deceased is 6:00 p.m. April 11, 2020 at Schrader, Aragon and Jacoby Funeral Home. Funeral Liturgy is 10:30 a.m. April 12, 2020 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church with interment in Cheyenne National Cemetery. Condolences and full obituary at www.schradercares.com.
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Local author to hold book signing Saturday at bookstore
CHEYENNE – Local author Dean Petersen will be signing copies of his Wyoming-based mystery book "The Burqa Cave" at Barnes & Noble, located 1851 Dell Range Blvd., on Saturday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
"The Burqa Cave" follows the story of Iraq War veteran Tim Ross as he teaches high school in a small Wyoming town and hopes to overcome the nightmares he's been having since he returned from the war. When one of his students mentions seeing a ghost during a macabre ritual held at an isolated gun range, Tim ignores him until the following summer, when his former student leads him right to the body of a missing teenage girl.
The boy's insistence that he can see the dead forces Tim to face the possibility that there might be life after death and consequences for the worst thing he did in Iraq.
"The story is heavily based on life in southwest Wyoming, but anyone who lives in Wyoming will identify with the story and its locations, along with anyone who enjoys a spooky mystery," Petersen said of his debut novel. "I hope people will come get their signed copies on Saturday."
Dean Petersen is an Army veteran and lives in Cheyenne with his wife, three kids and a growing zoo of pets. When not writing, he does commercial videography and enjoys podcasting.
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CHEYENNE – Gov. Mark Gordon said that after he has laid the groundwork for success in his first term, he is ready to seek re-election.
He traveled to Buffalo to make the announcement Monday evening, where he asked friends and family to support his effort. His message to the crowd was “there’s more work to do,” which is a sentiment he reiterated to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Tuesday.
“It always seemed to me that any governor who gets the job should anticipate doing it for eight years, for two reasons,” he said on a visit to the WTE’s newsroom. “One, it’s hard to get things done in just four. And then, two, it’s a wonderful state, and I just think that people in Wyoming expect you’re going to do your job as long as you can do it.”
Gordon said he ran for governor in 2018 because he wanted to guarantee Wyoming had strong, conservative leadership. He defeated five other Republicans, including attorney Harriet Hageman, in the gubernatorial primary with 33.4% of the vote. Hageman is currently seeking the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and earned an endorsement from former President Donald Trump last fall.
After prevailing in the primary, Gordon went on to win the general election. The governor obtained nearly 73% of the votes against Democratic contender Mary Throne.
Before he was elected as the 33rd governor of Wyoming, he worked in the treasurer’s office. He was appointed to serve as treasurer by Gov. Mark Mead in 2012, and elected to a full term two years later. It wasn’t until he ran for to be governor that he left the position in 2019.
Gordon also spent a significant portion of his life in Johnson County, although he was not born in Wyoming. But from local business ownership to ranching, he is known for making the state his home.
“It is a place that really values liberty and freedom, and so we have fewer regulations,” he said. “We have government that’s accessible. You just don’t get that from other places.”
Keeping with those values, Gordon said he felt as though his first term in the governor’s office was a success. The budget remained fiscally conservative, investments were made in expanding energy sources, and the state’s economy survived throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Economic diversification efforts were also a priority, which Gordon said relied on multiple tools.
The administration recognized it’s not only about bringing new businesses into Wyoming, but also investing in established local businesses looking to grow. He explained that education is the cornerstone of this perspective, because investments need to be made into entrepreneurial and workforce programs.
While commitment to education and community are important, Gordon said there is still value in bringing in outside companies to expand the market. One of the major industries bringing in opportunities he spoke of was technology.
“I think we set ourselves up because we passed some really pioneering legislation,” he said. “Our Special Purpose Depository Institution Act is a phenomenal piece of legislation. We are forcing our way through the federal system to get Wyoming recognized, but it has already brought a lot of attention to Wyoming.”
Gordon said he plans to build on those accomplishments if he is re-elected. He also hopes to reinvent the education model in the state, ensure an accessible and affordable health care system, continue to raise state workforce compensation and create a sustainable government that is not tied to commodity cycles for funding.
He said this does not mean abandoning legacy industries, but rather finding ways they can develop better and continuing diversification efforts. He acknowledged this would benefit addressing climate change, as well, which he has been a proponent of in the past.
“If you care about the climate, the way you address it is by letting the free market find the solutions,” he said. “Wyoming can provide those opportunities. And that’s not left or right, that’s just good sense.”
Energy is not just at the forefront of discussions between state political candidates, but rather receiving national attention due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. President Joe Biden banned the import of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal to the U.S. at the beginning of March, which left many wondering how the gap would be filled.
Wyoming lawmakers such as Cheney and GOP Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis advocate the state become the arsenal of energy for the nation. They were not alone, as Gordon shared the same perspective, and he also pointed to the environmental benefits.
He said Biden reached out to Venezuela to help produce more oil in order to stabilize gas prices, but that country’s practices was not up to American standards. In his fight for oil and gas leasing on federal lands, he said the Biden administration was harming itself by not allowing the Western region to continue developing environmentally sensitive, premium energy. Working toward solutions in the industry is yet another objective in his campaign.
“We shoot our own people who care about the environment in the foot,” he said. “It just doesn’t make sense, which is why I said this year, ‘Mr. Biden, tear up your energy plan. Let America power the world.’”
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| 2022-04-06T03:04:50Z
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CHEYENNE – A jury on Monday found a Cheyenne day care worker guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Kristina Eileen Croy was charged in Laramie County District Court following the September 2019 death of an 8-month-old girl who was in her care at the time. Croy pleaded not guilty to the charge in July 2020.
Croy was accused of placing the infant in a too-small swaddling device against her mother’s wishes and against state guidelines. She was also accused of directing an employee of her day care to lie to police following the incident, and of changing her story about the incident.
The infant, who was referred to during the trial and in court documents as “M.G.,” was identified by family members as Malia Gavagan.
Involuntary manslaughter, a felony, carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
The jury came back with the guilty verdict around 4:30 p.m. Monday, following about five hours of deliberation. The trial began March 28, and closing arguments took place Monday morning.
Marcia Bean, the county and prosecuting attorney for Big Horn County, was appointed to prosecute the case. The victim’s grandmother, Eileen Gavagan, worked for former Laramie County District Attorney Scott Homar, and she maintains a connection with current Laramie County DA Leigh Anne Manlove, who worked as a prosecutor in Homar’s administration.
Bean said Tuesday that the trial, which she said was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and filings by the defendant, was a long time coming. The prosecutor said she was “very happy” that the case was close to a resolution.
“I’m glad for the Gavagans, and I believe that it was an appropriate verdict. The jury worked hard, and so I’m satisfied with how it all came out,” Bean said in an interview.
Eileen Gavagan told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Tuesday that “it was very difficult to remain quiet and emotionless” during the roughly five-day trial. But as the jury’s guilty verdict was read, “finally we could breathe,” she said.
“The family members and those that loved Malia Gavagan are so grateful for the hard work of the prosecution team,” Eileen Gavagan wrote in an email. “We appreciated the jury’s attentiveness in the trial despite the very difficult circumstances and the emotions that arise when hearing about a child’s death, and seeing videos and photos of a deceased child.
“We are grateful that we had this precious child for 8 months (and) 21 days, and we will forever miss her,” she continued. “We hope for healing and peace and look forward to the sentencing hearing.”
Defendant’s arguments
Croy’s attorney, Dion Custis, gave a short statement to the WTE on Tuesday.
“It was an incredibly sad case – very tough case for anyone to consider, including the jury,” he said.
In his opening argument in the trial, Custis called Malia’s death a “tragic accident,” and said Croy had not done anything criminal.
Custis said Croy likely wouldn’t have taken the child into her care if she’d known about Malia’s “health issues,” which he said included being born premature and her mother’s use of marijuana while she was pregnant.
Croy’s attorney said the child was taking medication for acid reflux, but that Croy did not know this. He also referred to Malia as having “breathing issues” and “chronic lung disease.”
Custis said there was documentation that child could not roll over on her own, meaning it would not have been unsafe to place her in a swaddling device, he said.
Regarding the accusation that Croy had changed her version of events, Custis said the day care worker had been “in a frantic state of mind” following the incident.
In Bean’s opening argument, she said Malia’s mother, Julianne Gavagan, stopped using marijuana when she found out she was pregnant. Bean characterized the infant as “active” and “healthy” immediately before her death.
Croy remains out of custody pending sentencing.
Eileen and Julianne Gavagan also filed a wrongful death lawsuit in May 2021 in Laramie County District Court. The suit, which names Croy and her day care as defendants, has a scheduling conference set for May 9.
The incident
The criminal charge stemmed from a Sept. 25, 2019, incident. The Cheyenne Police Department responded to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center that afternoon, following the report of a deceased infant, according to a probable cause affidavit written by CPD Detective Allison Baca.
Malia Gavagan had been in Croy’s care. Croy operated the day care “It’s a Child’s World They Matter,” which was licensed by the Wyoming Department of Family Services, the affidavit said.
Croy told law enforcement that she’d found Malia at about 1:20 p.m. that day face down on the living room floor. The child was not breathing and had no heartbeat. Croy said she yelled for her then-18-year-old daughter to call 911.
Croy said that, at about 12:30 p.m., she’d put Malia in a “little sleeper,” which is described in the affidavit as a swaddling device that zips up to the neck with Velcro flaps, restraining a child’s arms.
Croy told police she had to use the “swaddler” for prevention of sudden infant death syndrome. The Mayo Clinic describes SIDS as “the unexplained death, usually during sleep, of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old.” Croy said Malia’s mother knew she used the swaddling device, a version of events the parent contradicted.
After putting Malia in the device, Croy put the child on the floor on her back. She described looking over “a couple times” and seeing the infant had “dozed off.” In at least one instance, Malia had rolled over, which Croy said she didn’t like, so she rolled the child onto her back.
When she checked on the child again, Croy said Malia was lying face down and not breathing. She said another day care employee stayed with the other children – 11 additional small children and infants – as her daughter called 911 and Croy began CPR. At this time, Croy said she heard Malia gurgling and noticed her lips were turning purple.
Croy said that, at the time of the incident, she was in the kitchen cleaning and doing paperwork, moving between the rooms.
Changing stories
Both Croy’s daughter and the second day care employee later contradicted Croy’s account in interviews with law enforcement, according to the affidavit. They said the second day care employee had been at lunch during the incident. Croy’s daughter said a neighbor had come over to help watch the children while waiting for the employee to return.
The day care employee “immediately reported (in the police interview) that Croy had asked her to lie and say she was there at the time of the incident,” the affidavit said.
Croy contacted a Department of Family Services employee after the incident and asked her to come to the hospital. Croy initially gave the DFS worker similar information to what she provided to law enforcement, though she did not tell the DFS worker she’d found Malia face down, as she’d apparently told law enforcement.
Croy added that, although her home day care had cameras, she did not know if they’d been recording. Croy said she’d noticed the night before that the camera in the living room, where Malia had been at the time of the incident, was pointed toward the ceiling.
In an interview with the DFS worker about a month later, Croy changed her story, according to the affidavit. She told the DFS worker that Malia could not roll over independently, and when she checked on Malia at one point, the infant’s head was “turned,” and she was not breathing.
Malia’s mother, Julianne Gavagan, told police the infant had no health problems and was not sick on the day she died. Julianne added that Malia could sit up and “frequently rolled from her back to her stomach,” and had “on occasion” rolled from her stomach to her back, but that it was difficult for her, the affidavit said.
The swaddling device Malia was wearing the day she died had a sewn-in tag indicating it was for babies three to six months old and between 13-18 pounds. It measured 22.5 inches long. Also on the tag were the words: “STOP swaddling when your baby shows signs of rolling over or breaking out of the swaddle.”
At the time of her autopsy, the 8-month-old weighed 19 pounds and was 25 inches long.
An autopsy report concluded Malia died of positional asphyxia, meaning the infant’s position had prevented her from breathing properly.
The DFS worker provided Detective Baca with documentation that showed Croy had been trained in “safe sleep practices,” including that babies should not be swaddled “without a written statement and instructions from physician.”
Wyoming Child Care Licensing Rules say: “Sleeping infants shall not be swaddled without a licensed health care professional statement, including instructions and a time frame for swaddling an infant, on file. Swaddling is prohibited for infants that have the ability to roll over independently.”
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Air Force has dubbed its next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile the LGM-35A Sentinel.
The official name for the United States’ next nuclear missile, which until now has been referred to as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, was announced by the service Tuesday.
The Sentinel is to succeed the five-decade-old Minuteman III beginning in 2029, and it would represent a major upgrade – and a costly one, at $100 billion – to the ICBM portion of the U.S. nuclear triad. Nuclear-armed bombers, such as the B-52 Stratofortress and the in-development B-21 Raider, as well as submarines make up the other two portions of the nuclear triad.
Don Koser, Air Force Global Strike Command’s lead historian, said in a Monday interview that the name was chosen to evoke the image of “one that stands guard and keeps the watch.”
It also is intended to signal the continuation of the vigil carried out by airmen and Air Force civilians who operated, secured, maintained and supported its predecessors: Minuteman, Peacekeeper, Titan and Atlas. The latter is America’s first ICBM system, and it became operational in 1959.
“Our nation’s nuclear deterrent force, two legs of which is operated by airmen, has quietly provided a strategic security shield for decades,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said in a release. “All that time, the Department of the Air Force has kept the watch; always vigilant and ready. The name Sentinel recognizes the mindset that thousands of airmen, past and present, have brought to the deterrence mission, and will serve as a reminder for those who operate, secure and maintain this system in the future about the discipline and responsibility their duty entails.”
Beginning in the 1950s, the military drew some of its earliest missiles’ names from Greek mythology, resulting in the Atlas and Titan programs, as well as the Nike anti-aircraft missiles. The Navy’s Poseidon and Trident submarine ballistic missiles also followed in the 1970s.
The Air Force shifted gears in the early 1960s and looked to American history for inspiration when it named the first in the series of Minuteman missiles, after the colonial-era militiamen who were ready to rapidly respond to danger at all times. Koser said the Air Force hoped such a name would be more “relatable” to the American public.
In 1986, the Air Force fielded the four-stage Peacekeeper missile, capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads on different targets using multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles. Those weapons were deactivated in 2005.
When asked why the Air Force opted out of choosing a name from mythology or a specific historical reference, like the Minuteman, Koser said the service considered six factors: historical relevance, the link to the mission, aggressiveness, popularity, simplicity and recognition.
Global Strike Command could not say how many other names were considered, or identify some of the other candidates.
Tom Karako, director of the missile defense project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who last year wrote about the need for better names of weapons, said he thinks the metaphor of a sentinel keeping watch is fitting.
“America’s most fearsome weapons need better names,” Karako said. “Bland descriptors, acronyms, and bunches of letters and numbers are good enough for some weapons. But instruments of deterrence, the bedrock of U.S. national security, deserve a proper name, conjuring up story, honor and connection to the past.”
The LGM-30G Minuteman III was first deployed in 1970. There are now about 400 Minuteman IIIs in hardened silos, designed to withstand attacks, spread out across the country at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and other sites in Colorado and Nebraska.
Launch crews of two officers are on duty around the clock in underground launch control centers, which are connected to the silos with hardened cables and can be contacted immediately by the president or defense secretary.
The Defense Department says the $100 billion Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program is necessary to modernize the ICBM force and maintain an effective deterrent to China and Russia. The department also says the GBSD effort would be about $38 billion cheaper than extending the Minuteman III through 2075.
But critics of GBSD argue the modernization plans are escalatory, excessive for a deterrent capability and wasteful. Some Democratic lawmakers have opposed the program and sought to divert money away from it last year.
Northrop Grumman received a $13.3 billion contract in 2020 to develop the GBSD, and it opened a $1.4 billion facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last August to work on it and other strategic weapons programs.
The Air Force said the Sentinel will use a modular architecture that can be easily upgraded with new, emerging technologies to meet evolving threats, and will be easier to maintain than the Minuteman. This will save money and keep the Sentinel relevant well into the 2070s, the service said.
The Air Force’s current missile bases will also be the home of Sentinel missiles. Koser said the Sentinel upgrade will modernize more than the missiles themselves; it will also modernize or replace the existing Minuteman-era silos, control centers and ground infrastructure, as well as its flight systems and command-and-control systems.
The Air Force said that adapting the existing infrastructure will allow both the Minuteman III and the Sentinel to meet all nuclear surety and safety standards during the transition process.
This article was reprinted with permission from Sightline Media Group. The original article can be found online at https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/04/05/heres-the-new-name-of-the-us-air-forces-next-gen-nuke/.
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Man scheduled to be executed 44 years after raping, killing college student
PHOENIX (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) - A man convicted 20 years ago of murdering an Arizona State University student is scheduled to be executed on May 10.
Arizona’s Family reports Clarence Dixon was sentenced to death in the 1977 killing of ASU student Deana Bowdoin in 2002 after that case went cold.
According to authorities, on Jan. 7, 1978, Bowdoin, a 21-year-old ASU student, was raped, strangled, and stabbed to death in her Tempe apartment.
A Tempe detective reopened the case using DNA profiling. Detectives said they were able to pinpoint Dixon as the suspect, who was already serving a life sentence for a 1986 sexual assault conviction.
In 2002, Dixon was indicted for Bowdoin’s murder, and a jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death.
According to officials, Dixon has 20 days to decide on being injected with a lethal drug or executed in a gas chamber. If he doesn’t choose, the lethal injection will serve as the default method of execution.
Dixon will be the first execution in Arizona since 2014 when Joseph Rudolph Wood III was executed at Florence State Prison. Wood was convicted of shooting his estranged girlfriend and her father in 1989.
“I promised Arizona voters that people who commit the ultimate crime get the ultimate punishment,” wrote Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in a statement. “I will continue to fight every day for justice for victims, their families, and our communities.”
One of Dixon’s attorneys, Jennifer Moreno, released the following statement on her client’s planned execution:
“The state has had nearly a year to demonstrate that it will not be carrying out executions with expired drugs but has failed to do so.” Under these circumstances, the execution of Mr. Dixon — a severely mentally ill, visually disabled, and physically frail member of the Navajo Nation — is unconscionable.”
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 35 to 45 mph with gusts of 60 to 70 mph are
possible.
* WHERE...South Lincoln County, Rock Springs and Green River,
Flaming Gorge, and East Sweetwater County.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM MDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Elevated blowover risk,
especially for light and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around
trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of
your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if
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ROCK SPRINGS -- The letter of intent addressed to the Ray Lovato Recycling Center to require garbage collectors to offer curbside recycling within the city of Rock Springs was approved by the Rock Springs City Council during the meeting on Tuesday, April 5.
During a special city council meeting held on March 16, the Ray Lovato Recycling Center's board president Devon Brubaker gave a presentation in reference to the recycling services offered in Rock Springs.
A portion of the letter states the following:
"Having devoted a great deal of thought, deliberation and consideration to the matter, the city of Rock Springs would like to inform you of its intent to require garbage collectors to provide curbside recycling services within the city of Rock Springs. To that end, the city of Rock Springs intends to modify its current garbage collection ordinance to provide for and accommodate curbside recycling, and to require collectors to provide the service. At this time, the city intends to allow citizens to participate in the recycling program voluntarily."
The first reading of an ordinance amending Article 4-2 of the ordinances of the city of Rock Springs, "Garbage Collection," and establishing a citywide disposable waste recycling program was also conducted during the meeting.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- In Hawaii, 470 people over the age of 60 reported losses last year amounting to $11.7 million, according to the FBI's Elder Fraud Report for 2021, published on Tuesday.
While that number is alarming, it's down from the previous year, in which 1,978 people in Hawaii over 60 years old reported losses totaling $13.7 million.
Nationwide, more than 92,000 victims over the age of 60 reported losses of $1.7 billion in 2021. The average loss per person nationwide was more than $18,000.
According to the report, tech support fraud was the most common type of scam targeting seniors. The scammers often impersonate companies including tech, banking, and utility companies. Many victims said they were told to make wire transfers to overseas accounts, purchase large amounts of prepaid cards, or mail large amounts of cash via overnight or express services.
The FBI's IC3 report is meant to educate, warn, and protect potential victims of all ages.
Tips from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center:
Resist the pressure to act quickly. Criminals create a sense of urgency to instill fear and the need for immediate action.
Be cautious of unsolicited phone calls, mailings, and door-to-door service offers.
Never provide any personally identifiable information.
Never wire money to persons or businesses you have solely met online. Verify any email requests for money.
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Stop communication with the perpetrator, but expect the criminal will continue to attempt contact.
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On Tuesday, the Hawaii Senate Ways and Means Committee unanimously passed the resolution, un-amended.
The next step -- SR78/SCR88 will go before the full Senate, and if adopted, will cross over to the House for its consideration.
Original story on 4/4/22:
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Should the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) create a new patrol district specifically for the Waianae coast? A resolution is urging that to happen.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee is set to decide on Tuesday whether to move SR78/SCR88 forward.
Currently, the Waianae coast is part of what's known as District 8, which also includes Ewa and Kapolei.
The resolution urges HPD to create a new police district to service the Waianae coast, from Nanakuli to Kaena Point, and to allocate more resources to increase the police presence in those areas.
"Now that we see this growth of the second city and the Leeward side it's really overdue to create District 9 police station, and that's what we've been begging for years and years now," said Sen. Maile Shimabukuro, (D - Ko Olina, Waianae, Makaha.)
In previous testimony for this resolution, the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers said it strongly supports the creation of a new district, however, it's concerned about how HPD will be able to fill the new district when the department can't fill the districts, sectors and beats that already exist.
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The top US military officer told lawmakers Tuesday that the world is becoming more unstable and the "potential for significant international conflict is increasing, not decreasing."
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared before the House Armed Services Committee in their first testimony before Congress since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The two Pentagon leaders said the threats from both Russia and China remain significant, while they defended the US approach to the war and the flow of arms the US is sending to Ukraine.
Milley said that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is "the greatest threat to peace and security of Europe and perhaps the world" in his 42 years serving in the US military, but added it was "heartening" to see the world rally around Ukraine.
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine is threatening to undermine not only European peace and stability but global peace and stability that my parents and a generation of Americans fought so hard to defend," Milley said.
"We are now facing two global powers: China and Russia, each with significant military capabilities both who intend to fundamentally change the rules based current global order," Milley added. "We are entering a world that is becoming more unstable and the potential for significant international conflict is increasing, not decreasing."
Lawmakers in both parties focused at the hearing on the weapons that were being provided to Ukraine, asking whether more could be done as Ukraine has continued to ask for additional capabilities.
"One of the biggest questions we're going to have in this committee is, 'How can we do more?'" House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat, said at the top of the hearing. "How can we make sure we're doing absolutely everything we can to help them?"
Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the panel's top Republican, said he would support the US setting up permanent bases in eastern NATO countries like Poland and the Baltics in order to deter Russia. Milley said that he would support establishing permanent bases but added that he thought US forces should rotate through them to create a deterrent without incurring the costs of moving family, establishing schools and other measures required when a permanent US base is established abroad.
"I believe a lot of our European allies, especially those such as in the Baltics or Poland or Romania or elsewhere, they are very, very willing to establish permanent bases," Milley said. "They'll build them, they'll pay for them, etc., for us to cycle through on a rotational basis. So you get the effect of permanent presence of forces, but the actual individual soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines are not permanently stationed there for 2-3 years."
Austin said that NATO was still discussing how it should bolster its permanent presence in eastern Europe. "If NATO deems that it's appropriate to change its footprint, then certainly we'll be a part of that," Austin said.
Several Republicans asked Milley and Austin whether the US failed in its efforts to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine. Milley responded that he did not think Putin could have been deterred unless US forces had deployed from Ukraine -- a scenario he would have advised against had it been proposed.
"Candidly, short of the commitment of US military forces into Ukraine proper, I'm not sure he was deterrable. This has been a long-term objective of his that goes back years," Milley said. "I think the idea of deterring Putin from invading Ukraine, deterring him by the United States, would have required the commitment of US military forces, and I think that would have risked armed conflict with Russia, which I certainly wouldn't have advised."
Milley noted that sanctions "have a very poor track record of deterring aggression," but said they have succeeded in imposing significant costs to Russia for its aggression.
"The objective of the sanctions is to impose significant costs if he invaded, those significant costs, the sanctions in combination with the export controls, are breaking the back of the Russian economy as we speak," he said.
Austin later added that had the US "put forces into Ukraine to fight Putin, this would be a different story."
"But we made a decision that we weren't going to do that and we made the decision for the right reasons, and I support those decisions," Austin said, adding he did not want to speculate on what Chinese leaders might extrapolate from what's transpired in Ukraine as it related to Taiwan.
Milley defended the US military's policy requiring troops to receive Covid-19 vaccinations in response to several queries from Republicans questioning whether service members should be discharged for refusing to be vaccinated when Army recruiting numbers were down.
Milley noted that service members have to receive numerous vaccinations as part of joining the military, like an Anthrax vaccine, and said that the Covid-19 vaccine contributed to force readiness.
In a heated moment, Austin got into an argument with Rep. Matt Gaetz after the Florida Republican accused the Pentagon of being too focused on "wokeism" and not defense.
Austin charged that Gaetz appeared to be "embarrassed for his country" by questioning the US military's capability, and the two men shouted over one another at several points.
Gaetz charged that the Pentagon "got it wrong" by predicting that Russia would overrun Ukraine within days and that the Taliban would not take control of Afghanistan last year. "You totally blew those calls and maybe we would be better at them if the National Defense University actually worked a little more on strategy and a little less on wokeism," Gaetz said.
"Has it occurred to you that Russia has not overrun Ukraine because of what we've done and what our allies have done?" Austin asked. "Have you ever even thought about that?"
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Group claims fetuses in DC home proof of illegal abortions
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 12:13 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - An anti-abortion group says the five fetuses found last week in a member’s home came from the medical waste being disposed by a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic.
The group, known as the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, claims it contacted the police to collect the fetuses in hopes that an autopsy would prove that the clinic was conducting federally illegal late-stage abortions.
Last week, the Metropolitan Police Department removed five aborted fetuses from the home of Lauren Handy, a longtime anti-abortion rights activist.
Police removed the fetuses one day after Handy and eight others were charged with blocking access to an abortion clinic in 2020.
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Mom says 1-year-old suffered bites, scratches at Ohio daycare
FREMONT, Ohio (WTVG) - An Ohio mother claims someone abused her 1-year-old son while watching him at a home daycare center. Police are investigating the allegation.
Janae Lawson says she picked her 1-year-old son up last week from the caregiver, and his face was bruised with a bite mark. His mother wants to know what happened to him while he was at daycare.
WTVG did not report the name of the daycare because no charges have been filed in the case.
“He had scratches all over his face,” Lawson said. “I took him home, took a sleeper off, and I noticed that there were bite marks on his arm. There were scratches on his chest and all over his neck.”
She took her son to the hospital. Medical documents claim he apparently suffered physical abuse.
Fremont Police are investigating to see what happened to the 1-year-old.
“I’m very hurt and disappointed because I’ve had this babysitter for a few months now, and I just want answers,” Lawson said. “I just want to know what happened to my son. The bruises are still there, and he’s probably going to have a scar on his face.”
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Richlands’ Cory Hale signs with Bluefield University
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:46 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
RICHLANDS, Va. (WVVA) - Richlands High School baseball player, Cory Hale, put pen to paper on Tuesday. He signed his LOI to play baseball at Bluefield University.
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Ten local athletes make North-South football roster
Published: Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:45 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Ten local football players will have the opportunity to suit up for the South Cardinals, as they face the North Bears in the 2022 North-South Football Classic this summer.
The rosters were unveiled Tuesday. Six southern West Virginia schools will be representing.
Independence: Logan Phalin
Montcalm: Devin Green
Liberty-Raleigh: Logan Dodrill and Chris Mickey
Beckley: Maddex McMillen and Keynan Cook
Oak Hill: Leonard Farrow and Braxton Hall
Mount View - TJ Bell and Tony Bailey
The game will be played June 11th at South Charleston High School.
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Alaska Airlines moves to gender-neutral uniforms, allowing tattoos for employees
(CNN) - Alaska Airlines is going gender-neutral with its uniform policy for employees.
In a statement this week, the airline said the updated guidelines will “provide more freedom and flexibility in individual and gender expression.”
The carrier will also collaborate with a designer to create gender-neutral uniform items for frontline workers, including flight attendants, customer service agents and lounge employees.
The change follows a 2021 employee allegation that Alaska Airlines’ uniform policy discriminated against workers whose gender expression did not fit male and female dress codes.
Previously, the airline required either “male” or “female” uniforms, along with regulations on other dress codes based on assumed gender. At the time, the carrier said flight attendants could order any “uniform kit of their choice, regardless of gender identity.”
The airline is also updating to allow more flexibility in personal expression, including with tattoos and hair style choices.
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Biden speaks on actions to expand, improve trucking jobs amid supply chain issues
WASHINGTON (Gray News) - President Joe Biden gave remarks Monday on the administration’s Trucking Action Plan.
The effort, first announced in December, aims to improve access to trucking jobs and fair compensation and conditions, as well as helping ease supply chain issues contributing to inflation.
“2021 was the best year for trucking employment since 1994,” Biden said. “There are now 35,000 more trucking jobs than there were before the pandemic, but we all know we need to move faster, getting more people working in this industry that they can rely on and raise a family on.”
In a news release, the White House stated it has been working to streamline the process to get commercial drivers licenses and increase the number of registered apprenticeship programs. It also encouraged partnerships connecting veterans to trucking careers, among other initiatives.
Trucking moves 72% of goods in the U.S., the White House said. December-February marked the best 3-month stretch for hiring in the industry since the ‘90s.
Frontline truckers’ real wages grew last year despite elevated inflation, the administration said.
Other work is aimed at workplace safety, worker’s rights and ensuring trucking is a safe and inclusive industry for women, the White House stated.
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Biggest underdog victories in March Madness
(Stacker) - Everyone loves an underdog. Whether it’s an intrinsic desire to root for the little guy or a hedge against laying the favorite, sports fans can’t help but crave the come-out-of-nowhere victory. This propensity is strongest during March Madness, that annual springtime tourney that pits NCAA Division I college basketball teams against one another in a drive toward the national championship.
What we have come to know as March Madness began in 1939, when it featured just eight teams. By 1951, that number doubled to 16. It doubled again in 1975, and yet again in 1985, before finally settling on the 68 first-round contenders we now see each year. According to the Sporting News, the first mention of the moniker “March Madness” was in the Illinois High School Athlete magazine, where high school official Henry V. Porter opined, “A little March madness may complement and contribute to sanity and help keep society on an even keel.”
The term’s association with the NCAA can be traced to the 1982 tournament, when CBS announcer Brent Musburger claimed he purloined the term from local car dealer commercials that aired during his time broadcasting Illinois state high school games (which also led to a lawsuit that resulted in the eventual trademark of the term itself).
One aspect of March Madness that’s open to less debate is that the annual sporting event is a standout with its high possibilities of having an unknown or undervalued team coming out of nowhere to score a major upset.
Leveraging AP Men’s Basketball polls from 1950–2021, BestOdds has come up with a list of some of the greatest and most unexpected underdog wins in the history of the NCAA championship tournament. AP polls are determined by a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters who vote weekly, in a simple points system, to decide the AP Top 25. A team receives 25 points for each first place vote, 24 for second place and so on through to the 25th team, which receives one point. The rankings are set by listing the teams’ point totals from highest to lowest.
Here, teams were ranked by their standing in the polls going into March Madness, with teams that had poorer standings ranking higher on the list. (Lower numbers in the poll indicate a better expected performance, with 1 being the top pick, so a higher number indicates a poorer standing, and thus an underdog victory.) Ties were broken by the team’s preseason standing in the polls. The preseason favorite for that year is also included. From 1949–1960 and 1969–1989, the poll included 20 teams, from 1961–1968 the poll included 10 teams, and from 1990–present the poll has 25 teams.
So without further ado, here are 10 of the biggest underdog victories in NCAA March Madness history.
#10. The 1989 Michigan Wolverines
- Final AP poll ranking: 10
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 3
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Duke
The Big Ten is a notoriously tough conference prided on defense. Going into the 1988–1989 season, everyone had their eye on the Wolverines, who were coming off a respectable 26–8 season, but still smarting from a loss to North Carolina in the 1988 Sweet Sixteen. Conference foes Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa all put up winning records, while Purdue, ranked as high as #3, slipped into the rearview. After a 24–7 regular season record (12–6 in the Big Ten Conference), Michigan barreled through the tournament, besting ACC powers North Carolina and Virginia to reach the Final Four.
There, they faced fellow Big Ten member Illinois in a match that few expected the Wolverines to win. But win they did, 83–81, in a nail-biting classic. Two days later, on April 3, Michigan won the title with an 80–79 overtime victory over fellow underdog Seton Hall.
#9. The 2006 Florida Gators (tie)
- Final AP poll ranking: 11
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Duke
Prior to the 2005–2006 season, the Florida Gators had been bounced out in the first round of the tourney each of the past two years. With coach Billy Donovan returning for his 10th season in the Sunshine State and a lineup that featured Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Corey Brewer, and Chris Richard—all of whom would go on play in the NBA—along with team captain Adrian Moss, the Gators took home the SEC Championship against South Carolina after posting a 24–6 regular season record.
Coming into the NCAA tournament ranked 11th in the country, the team beat Big East dynamos Georgetown and Villanova. The Gators then handled upstart George Mason on the way to a 73–57 win over UCLA, who have more NCAA men’s basketball championships than any other school. This would be the beginning of a brief dynasty, as the Gators also won the 2007 championship, becoming the first school to win back-to-back titles since Duke in the early 1990s.
#8. The 1959 California Golden Bears (tie)
- Final AP poll ranking: 11
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Cincinnati
Coming off a modest 19–9 campaign, no one expected much from the Golden Bears heading into the 1958–1959 season. But beginning with a decisive 60–36 win over San Jose State to open the season, the team went on to finish the regular season in impressive fashion, posting a 21–4 record. After wins over Utah and Saint Mary’s, both top 20 teams, Cal made it to the championship game by beating #5 Cincinnati (and its three-time Sporting News Player of the Year Oscar Robertson). The title game was a white-knuckle bout against #10 West Virginia and future NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, but the Golden Bears squeaked out a 71–70 win.
Just one year later, California center Darrall Imhoff would go on to win gold with the 1960 U.S. Men’s Olympic basketball team—a team coached by the Golden Bears’ own Pete Newell. Imhoff was then drafted third overall in the 1960 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks, right behind Robertson and West.
#7. The 2003 Syracuse Orange
- Final AP poll ranking: 13
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Arizona
The 2003 NCAA Championship would be a first title for one of two legendary coaches. On one side was Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, who in his 27 years as head coach, had taken his team to the Final Four just two times, in 1987 and 1996. On the other sideline was Kansas head coach Roy Williams, who had reached the Final Four four times, finishing as runner up in 1991. The Syracuse Orangemen, as they were known at the time, were led by freshmen Carmelo Anthony and Gerry McNamara. Together, these first-year phenoms blazed a trail through the tournament, culminating with an 81–78 victory over Kansas.
Anthony was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player and months later was drafted in the first round by the NBA’s Denver Nuggets. Later, still fond of Syracuse, he donated $3 million to his alma mater to build the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center.
#6. The 1997 Arizona Wildcats
- Final AP poll ranking: 15
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 19
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Cincinnati
There’s a first time for everything, and for the Arizona Wildcats, 1997 marked many firsts in program and college basketball history. Yes, they won their first-ever championship that year, defeating top-ranked Kentucky, 84–79, in overtime, but the team’s true mark on NCAA history was that they were the first school to defeat three top seeds in one tournament. Before their victory over Kentucky, the Wildcats bested top-ranked Kansas and North Carolina.
Fun fact: In the opening game of the season, the Wildcats took down North Carolina 83-72, providing a harbinger of things to come in the Final Four rematch.
#5. The 1983 NC State Wolfpack
- Final AP poll ranking: 16
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 16
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Virginia
To this day, the story of the 1983 “Cardiac Pack” still evokes awe among sports fans. After putting up a respectable, if not spectacular 17–10 regular season record, the Wolfpack took the ACC Tournament title from Virginia. Led by notorious rabble-rousing coach Jim Valvano, NC State carried that momentum into a matchup with #1 seed Houston in the NCAA title game. But Houston was led by future NBA Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon, and the Cougars were heavily favored to win. (The Drexel and Olajuwon duo was known as Phi Slamma Jamma for their high-scoring and dunk-filled style of play.)
This battle of underdogs versus superstars would come down to the last shot. NC State’s Dereck Whittenburg lofted an airball, but center Lorenzo Charles, waiting under the basket, outboxed Olajuwon and tapped it in for the 54–52 victory.
#4. The 2014 UConn Huskies
- Final AP poll ranking: 18
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 18
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Kentucky
The year before their 2014 title, the Huskies had a great season by many standards, going 20–10, but they were banned from participating in tournament play, due to sanctions resulting from years of substandard academic progress ratings among team members. Out for vengeance, second-year coach Kevin Ollie guided UConn to a 24-7 regular season record in 2014.
The team hit a speedbump in the American Athletic Conference final, losing to #5 Louisville, but bounced back in the NCAA tourney with wins over top 10 ranked Villanova and Iowa State. UConn also topped #11 Michigan State, before a stunning decisive win over #1 Florida, 63–53. The Huskies then faced college basketball royalty Kentucky for the title, and pulled out a 60–54 victory.
#3. The 1950 CCNY Beavers
- Final AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 14
- Preseason AP poll favorite: St. John’s (NY)
The Beavers provided headlines of hoop dreams and scandal during a memorable 1950 season. They were the first NCAA championship team to have Black players in its starting lineup, setting a precedent that redefined the sport. But even after a 17–5 regular season, there was no love for the team by the poll voters. That did not stop them—and maybe even motivated them—to winning the NIT and NCAA titles, both over top-ranked Bradley.
Scandal later engulfed the team when it was revealed that seven players were charged for their involvement in fixing games during the regular season, a fiasco that involved a total of seven schools and supposedly members of organized crime.
#2. The 1988 Kansas Jayhawks
- Final AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll ranking: 7
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Syracuse
Jayhawks fans still remember the year of Danny and the Miracles. Led by star player Danny Manning, the 1988 squad got off to a rocky 12–8 start, but turned things around in the season’s second half, winning 15 of its last 18 games, including a win over rival Oklahoma. Manning would go on to be named National Player of the Year, and head coach Larry Brown became the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship and an NBA title, the latter of which he accomplished with the Detroit Pistons in 2004.
#1. The 1985 Villanova Wildcats
- Final AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll ranking: Unranked
- Preseason AP poll favorite: Georgetown
For any college hoops fan, this championship team was utterly unforgettable. Dubbed by Sports Illustrated as “The Perfect Game,” the 1985 NCAA title match had all the makings of a David versus Goliath showdown. Defending champion and #1 ranked Georgetown, which came into the final with a 35–2 record, had future NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing dominating at the center position.
Villanova’s comparatively average record of 19–10 seemed to suggest that this would be one of the biggest routs in college basketball history. But Villanova shot an unprecedented 79% from the field, while limiting Ewing to just 14 points. The Wildcats’ 66–64 win was, in the words of P.J. Carlesimo, coach of then-rival Seton Hall, “as close to the perfect game as any team [has played] ever.”
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Bojangles restaurants to give away $1 million in free gas
(WHNS/Gray News) - Bojangles is giving away $1 million in free gas to help relieve pain for customers at the pump.
The restaurant said that starting Monday and lasting until supplies run out, every purchase of a Bojangles Family Meal featuring 12 or 20 pieces of bone-in chicken, plus scratch-made biscuits, choice of side, and tea will come with a $10 gas gift card at participating locations.
“Southerners are known for being friendly neighbors, so as a Southern brand, it’s in our DNA to want to help our customers who are feeling the pain of soaring gas prices,” said Jackie Woodward, Bojangles Chief Brand and Marketing Officer in a news release. “We don’t want anyone to have to choose between enjoying a delicious meal with the family or buying gas, so let Bojangles help with both.”
According to data compiled by AAA, gas prices reached the highest levels on record in March 2022. The restaurant said as a “family-forward” chain, Bojangles saw an opportunity to rally and help thousands of customers.
“This is the first time in Bojangles’ history that we’ve ever given away $1 million, but we know our customers are worth it, and we’re just glad that we could come together with all of our franchisees to support them,” said Woodward.
The restaurant mentioned Family Meals featuring Chicken Supremes, as well as all delivery orders, are not eligible.
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Bowlers raise over $70,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County
Published: Apr. 4, 2022 at 11:58 AM EDT
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Strikes, spares, and even gutter balls made a difference in Harrisonburg on Saturday for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County.
The non-profit organization hosted Island Bowl For Kids’ Sake at Valley Lanes on Friday and Saturday.
Collectively, several teams raised $70,620.76.
According to Lindsey Douglas, the executive director of BBBS-HR, the event provides up to 20% of the agency’s annual budget. Douglas said the event is critical to continuing one-to-one mentoring services for those involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County.
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Coca-Cola releases new ‘pixel flavored’ drink
(CNN) – Coke lovers, there is a new flavor. And it’s a little weird.
It’s dubbed Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Byte, and it’s supposed to taste like pixels.
The company says it makes the intangible taste of a pixel tangible, featuring bright elements up front and a refreshing finish, according to Coca-Cola.
The “byte” beverage is all about gaming.
The new product has existed longer online than in real life. It first appeared in late March on an island in the Fortnite video game.
Just last month, the company announced a limited edition flavor called Coca-Cola Starlight, a red version of the iconic soda with flavor “inspired by space.”
U.S. Customers can buy Byte online starting May 2, while supplies last. It’s available only in a two-pack and it will set you back around $15.
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Community Spotlight: The Universal Design Project
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - 26 percent of the U.S. adult population lives with some sort of disability, and many of the homes that are available don’t even come close to meeting current or future needs.
The Universal Design Project is hoping to change that, starting from the ground up.
Co-founder Scott Pruett has been living with a spinal cord injury for over half of his life, and finding a functional home was not easy.
“For example, I use a wheelchair. So, it’s not just can I get a wheelchair inside, but from a seated position, can I prepare a meal, can I clean up after a meal, can I easily get into the shower?” he explained.
Not being able to access all parts of your home can have a big impact on your quality of life.
“It decreases their confidence. It can have secondary health issues, so if it’s difficult to say, prepare a meal, then people will default to more convenient options... Things like that, that have a ripple effect into other areas of life,” Scott said.
The Universal Design Project is working to increase the supply of homes that can be accessible to all people so they can live life to the fullest.
“What we would love to see in the community is that homes would be designed and built from the start super functional, so when people go through something traumatic, they actually don’t have to do all of these renovations,” Sarah Pruett, UTD co-founder, said.
“There’s a lot of variation in terms of people’s ability or disability throughout the community,” Scott added. “What we try to look at is how can we incorporate as much function as possible for as many people as possible, and once we ask that question, then it’s, well how do we make that happen?”
Having a front door that is at least 36 inches wide and can accommodate a wide variety of mobility devices, having a bedroom and bathroom on the main floor, and having rooms with big enough spaces are just a few features that can help make a home more accessible.
“There are several hundred features that can be integrated into a design together that can look as ‘normal’ as possible,” Scott said.
But making a home functional means having the entire home accessible.
“Maybe there is a family out there that has multiple people living with different abilities. We have a daughter, so if her bedroom is upstairs, my husband can’t go upstairs to do all of those parenting things,” Sarah explained.
Making designs to accommodate a wide variety of needs is a collaborative effort.
“We work with health care providers, we work with people who actually have disabilities, as well as architects. When everyone comes together to work on a house plan, all of those voices are heard to make the home functional as possible,” Sarah said.
Having a universally designed space, helps people have more time to do the things they really want to do.
“It gives people confidence because they’re able to do their daily tasks easily, and it gives them a purpose and fulfill the roles that they want to fulfill,” Sarah said.
Right now, the organization is looking to work with community partners to help build a demonstration home to show people what a universally accessible home looks like and the benefits that can come from it.
If you would like to work with The Universal Design Project or offer feedback on designs in the works, you can go to universaldesign.org.
“We also have a design advisor program, so if you are someone in the community that has life experience with a disability, we have a volunteer program where we send information to you, so you can give feedback on how the designs are going,” Sarah said.
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Gas prices fall for second straight week
(Gray News) - The nation’s average gas price has fallen for the second straight week, according to GasBuddy.
As of Monday, the average gas price is $4.17 per gallon, according to data compiled from more than 11 million price reports across the country.
A week ago, the average gas price was $4.23 per gallon.
Though prices have fallen this week, the national average is up 25.5 cents from a month ago.
Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, said the fall in prices this week was a result of two factors.
“Oil prices fell last week as COVID cases in China surged, prompting restrictions on movements and hurting oil demand,” Haan said in a news release. “Meanwhile, President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. would be releasing 180 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve caused an even further decline in oil, leading gas prices in nearly all areas of the country to fall over the last week.”
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Gov. Youngkin signs legislation supporting animal welfare reform
AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed five bills Monday that focus on animal welfare.
“This historic package of bills I signed today clarifies that dogs and cats bred and sold for experimental purposes are protected by Virginia’s cruelty-to-animals law, will help ensure welfare standards and save lives, and will give Virginia the authority to take action when welfare violations occur,” Youngkin said in a statement.
The legislation addresses the conditions that dogs in a Cumberland County breeding facility were kept in.
“There’s been a lot of momentum behind these bills. They passed both chambers of our general assembly unanimously, and I think for a lot of people, they see their own companion animals reflected in these dogs being bred for research purposes,” said Molly Armus, Virginia State Director for the Humane Society of the United States.
Armus said it’s not just pet owners who want to see change made. Recently, the commonwealth has passed a few animal welfare bills.
“One of the bills we worked on and supported was a bill to prohibit cosmetics testing on animals here in Virginia, so I definitely think Virginia is the leader and will continue to be a leader on animal protection issues,” said Armus.
House Bill 1350 was introduced by Delegate Rob Bell, and the other bills, senate bills 87, 88, 90 and 604 were introduced by Senator William Stanley.
HB 1350 and SB 87: Prohibits sale of dogs or cats for experimental purposes.
This bill amends the Comprehensive Animal Care Law to include cats and breeders of cats. The bill also clarifies terminology to include any person or entity that breeds dogs or cats regulated under federal law as research animals.
SB 88: Records of animals sold or transferred to animal testing facilities.
This bill says breeders have to keep a record on each animal for two years from the date of sale and transfer. It also says a summary of these records must be provided to the State Veterinarian or made available to the VA Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services upon request.
SB 90: Breeders of dogs and cats for animal testing facilities; adoption of dogs and cats.
This bill adds breeders to those included in the Comprehensive Animal Care section of the code that are required to offer dogs and cats for sale or transfer to an animal testing facility that no longer has a need for a dog or cat in its possession to offer the animal for adoption prior to euthanizing it.
SB 604: Animal cruelty; companion animals, penalty.
This bill clarifies that cats and dogs in the possession of breeders that sell animals for experimental purposes are protected by Virginia’s animal welfare laws.
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Harrisonburg man sentenced to 20 years for sex crimes
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On March 28, 2022, 26-year-old Ramon Hernandez of Harrisonburg pleaded guilty in Rockingham County Circuit Court to object sexual penetration by force and strangulation, both felonies.
Hernandez received a 40-year sentence with 20 years suspended for object sexual penetration by force and received a five-year sentence for strangulation with all five years suspended.
Upon release, Hernandez will serve 8 years of supervised probation and will have to register as a sex offender. He remains in custody at the Rockingham County Regional Jail.
On August 26, 2021, an 84-year-old female victim reported that she was sexually assaulted by a nearby neighbor. Detectives from HPD’s Major Crimes Unit examined evidence that identified Hernandez as the suspect.
Subsequent interviews and further investigation revealed that Hernandez knocked on the door to the victim’s residence and asked the victim, who resided alone, for baking ingredients.
Once Hernandez was invited inside the home, investigators say he attacked the victim and sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious. The victim was later transported to Sentara Rockingham Memorial Hospital for treatment and has since recovered from her injuries.
Hernandez was arrested the same day of the assault and was initially charged with object sexual penetration by force, sexual battery and strangulation.
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‘I’m so scared’: School shooting suspect runs to nearby home, arrest caught on camera
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) – A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a student at a South Carolina middle school was seen on a doorbell camera just minutes after it happened.
The boy is being charged with murder, but he hasn’t been identified due to his age.
Deputies say he shot a classmate in the chest inside Tanglewood Middle School Thursday afternoon. The victim later died at the hospital.
According to WHNS, the young suspect ran away from the school after the shooting and knocked on the door of a nearby home, which was recorded on Elaine Griffin’s doorbell camera.
“I’m so scared,” the suspect said repeatedly. “There’s been a shooting at the school.”
“He started hollering that there was a shooting at the school, and he was scared. He said, ‘Can you call my dad?’” Griffin said.
She called his dad for him, and the boy eventually hid under Griffin’s deck while waiting for his father.
“They found him up under there and he told them that the gun was up under some wood we had under the deck,” she said.
Video from the doorbell camera shows deputies taking the boy away from Griffin’s property.
The motive for the shooting is unknown, but deputies said the suspect and the victim were familiar with each other.
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| 2022-04-06T07:27:02Z
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1st day ends with no verdict in Michigan Gov. Whitmer plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Jurors returned to court to ask a question Monday but offered no verdict during the first day of deliberations in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker told jurors to “find a good distraction,” maybe the NCAA men’s basketball championship, and return Tuesday “ready to engage, fresh.”
Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta are charged with a kidnapping conspiracy. Three men also face additional charges, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely an explosive.
The jury asked the judge for a definition of “weapon” at mid-afternoon Monday, but otherwise gave no indication of the progress of deliberations.
“Something that can be used to injure, kill or destroy someone or something,” Jonker said after consulting with prosecutors and defense lawyers. “So if that helps — I hope — great. If it doesn’t, just let us know.”
The trial has lasted 16 days, including 13 days of testimony. The jury heard hours of closing arguments and instructions Friday.
Jonker last week told jurors that the men could be convicted of conspiracy, even if a kidnapping did not occur in fall 2020.
A key factor, if the jury finds it, would be a “mutual understanding either spoken or unspoken” between two or more people in the group, the judge said.
Prosecutors said the plot was simmering for months, leavened by anti-government extremism and anger over Whitmer’s COVID-19 restrictions. With undercover FBI agents and informants embedded in the group, the men trained with a crudely built “shoot house” to replicate her vacation home, prosecutors allege.
There is no dispute that the alleged leaders, Fox and Croft, traveled to Elk Rapids, Michigan, to scout the governor’s property and a nearby bridge that same weekend in September 2020.
Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who pleaded guilty and testified against the four men, were on the same road trip, along with covert investigators.
Garbin said the goal was to get Whitmer before the fall election and create enough chaos to create a civil war and stop Joe Biden from winning the presidency. Much of the government’s case came from secretly recorded conversations, group messages and social media posts.
“You heard them in their own voices over and over again,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors, “talking about kidnapping her, murdering her, blowing up bridges and people and anybody who could get in their way. And it wasn’t just talk.”
The men were arrested in October 2020.
Defense lawyers, especially those representing Fox and Croft, attacked the government’s investigation and the use of a crucial informant, Dan Chappel. They claimed Chappel was the real leader, taking direction from the FBI and keeping the group on edge while recording them for months.
“Dan Chappel makes everything happen,” attorney Christopher Gibbons said in his closing remarks.
Attorney Joshua Blanchard repeatedly called the scheme “smoke and mirrors.”
“There was no plan. There was no agreement,” he said.
Croft is from Bear, Delaware, while the others are from Michigan.
Whitmer, a Democrat, rarely talks publicly about the plot, though she referred to “surprises” during her term that seemed like “something out of fiction” when she filed for reelection on March 17.
She has blamed former President Donald Trump for fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists like those charged in the case.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial
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White reported from Detroit.
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Marino’s Lunch in Staunton back open under condensed hours
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - After remodeling for the past four years, Marino’s Lunch in Staunton is slowly opening its doors again.
Owner Victor Meyer took the last few years to really dive deep into what he wanted to change and accomplish with this remodel. He looked at things he knew had longevity in working and changed the things that didn’t, all in the midst of a pandemic.
“It gave us time to think about how we were gonna recreate what Marino’s originally was but in a way that made the business model sustainable because everyone liked to go to Marino’s but it didn’t work commercially and we were able to do that,” Victor Meyer, owner of Marino’s Lunch, said.
Marino’s has a rich history of bluegrass music and is the go-to spot for people wanting to play and listen to music in Staunton, so Meyer expanded on that aspect of the restaurant.
“It became obvious that people were going to eat outside and that was gonna be a sustainable development so we completely excavated the backyard and we put in a terrace system that allows outdoor dining and outdoor dining lounge and music venue,” Meyer said.
The popular restaurant is now open, but operating under a condensed schedule as they continue to look to fill positions on their staff.
“In order to be able to ramp up, right now we’re only open five days a week in the evenings, in order to be able to ramp up, in order to fully realize the vision and the dream that we have and the community expectation we simply need some staff,” Meyer said.
The owner hopes with the remodel and reworking of the restaurant can showcase everything Staunton and the Shenandoah Valley embody.
“I wanna help it make Staunton work, and contribute to Staunton as a prosperous business location, a prosperous hub and destination for tourists and to serve the local community,” Meyer said.
Marino’s Lunch is currently open Tuesday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
“It’s gonna be a really amazing place on a summer night to listen to some music or on a Saturday or Sunday morning to come in and get a bucket of mimosas,” Meyer said.
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Medicare enrollees to get free COVID-19 tests at drug stores
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores.
More than 59 million people with Medicare’s “Part B” outpatient coverage will be able to get up to eight free at-home tests per month, or enough for an individual to test twice a week, as some doctors have recommended.
Medicare has lagged private insurance in following the Biden administration’s directive to cover at-home tests because rules and regulations stood in the way, and officials had to find a work-around. This is the first time the health insurance program for older people and those with disabilities has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients.
Medicare’s move could turn out to be prescient.
The BA.2 omicron variant now accounts for more than half of U.S. cases, having rapidly overtaken the original strain. That initial omicron wave this winter caused the biggest spike yet in virus cases, straining many hospitals to the limit. Since then, cases nationally have rapidly dropped to the lowest level since before last summer’s delta surge. Coronavirus restrictions have been largely lifted. But some areas where BA.2 took hold early are seeing increasing cases.
Monday’s announcement followed another precautionary move last week, when government health officials authorized a second round of booster shots for people 50 and older as well as those with weakened immune systems.
National pharmacy chains participating in Medicare’s give-away include: Albertsons Companies, Inc., Costco Pharmacy, CVS, Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford Pharmacies, H-E-B Pharmacy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy, Kroger Family of Pharmacies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop & Stop, Walgreens and Walmart.
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New Directions Center highlights resources during sexual assault prevention month
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - April is Sexual Assault Prevention Month and in the Shenandoah Valley, many organizations are looking to better educate people on the crime and its prevalence.
One such organization is New Directions Center in Staunton which provides free confidential services to victims of sexual assault like support groups, hospital accompaniment, and court advocacy.
In 2021, the organization reported 36 calls to its hotline for reports of sexual assaults in Augusta County, Staunton, and Waynesboro. However, New Directions staff say the actual number of assaults in the area is much higher as many are not reported.
“People may call us and not go through the hotline so it’s not necessarily recorded, some people come in for other things, and then later on it’s divulged that a sexual assault occurred,” said Joy Ingram, community engagement program coordinator for New Directions Center.
Ingram said the number of sexual assault calls to the hotline decreased in 2021 compared to recent years. From 2018 to 2020, the center received a total of 140 calls related to sexual assault, for an average of between 40 and 50 calls each year.
New Directions also works to raise awareness and educate the community about the realities of sexual assault.
“One of the biggest problems is that people don’t want to talk about sexual assault. They don’t want to talk about sex. So, they really don’t want to talk about sexual assault. They don’t want to talk about consent,” said Ingram.
“Because they don’t want to talk about these things, especially among younger children and teenagers then a lot of times when these things happen to people they don’t have the language to explain what happened to them,” added Ingram.
Ingram said these combined with the way that sexual assault is often discussed is a huge reason why victims remain silent.
“They’re afraid and ashamed to go forward and tell someone what happened to them and also there’s a lot of victim-blaming that goes on. So the victim doesn’t want to be blamed for what happened to her or to him so they just keep it to themselves,” she said.
Ingram said it’s important to believe victims and change the stigma around sexual assault.
Ingram said a common misconception is who the primary perpetrators of rape are.
“There’s sort of a myth around rape that most of it happens between strangers. The majority of sexual assaults are committed by people that the victim knows. It’s either a dating partner or friend or even a family member,” she said.
The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) estimates that an American is sexually assaulted every 68 seconds but only 25 of every 1,000 perpetrators of sexual assault will end up in prison.
RAINN’s data shows one in every six women in the United States has been a victim of attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Women ages 18-24 are four times more likely to be a victim of sexual violence.
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No deal on Virginia budget as lawmakers return for special session
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Monday afternoon, the Virginia House and Senate gaveled into session at the statehouse. But, with no state budget deal, there wasn’t a lot to vote on.
“We are looking at how can we get relief into the pockets of consumers, and there are many different ways to do that,” said State Sen. Jennifer McClellan, (D) 9th District.
House and Senate versions of the state’s two-year spending plan are still about $3 billion apart. The main difference centers around how to spend $14 billion in unanticipated state revenue.
“It all comes down to Republicans want to give the money back to the people. With inflation right now, the tremendous cost of gas for everyday families - it’s just a lot,” said State Sen. Amanda Chase, (R) 11th District.
Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin and House Republicans want to send more of the money back to taxpayers through a one-time rebate and cuts in income, grocery and gasoline taxes.
Senate Democrats have agreed to rebates and some tax cuts. Still, they contend surplus money should be spent on long overdue investments in core services, including public education and health care, especially behavioral health.
“I think it’s important to understand that we have extra money in part because we’re not fully funding our K-12 education system. We’re not fully meeting our health and human resource needs,” said McClellan.
The fate of the governor’s 90-day gas tax holiday is also still up in the air.
“The Democratic side, they’re saying, ‘look, you know it’s not going to be really effective,’ and you know, I disagree with that. I think everyday families, whether you are a Republican, Democrat, Independent, they’re all saying we need some relief,” said Chase.
Lawmakers have to be back on April 27 for a veto session. They hope to have a budget to vote on by then too.
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Officers reunite 75-year-old homeless woman with family
HENDERSON, Nev. (CNN) - Two Nevada police officers went beyond the call of duty to save an elderly homeless woman and reunite her with her family.
Henderson Police Officers Carlos Chorens and Sterling Candland felt they were up against the clock when they first encountered 75-year-old Rose Brazdovic hidden behind a cement barrier.
“She’s not going to make it much longer, we didn’t think,” Candland said.
Brazdovic didn’t ask for the officers’ help, but they spent two days with her and a man she considered her caretaker, just asking questions.
“She ended up selling her place, and she was going to do some traveling in a motorhome. Apparently, that didn’t work out,” Chorens said.
Chorens and Candland also reached out to Rochelle Fletcher in Henderson’s Community Resource and Resiliency Center to find a safe place for Brazdovic. Though the 75-year-old was a retiree from Walmart and had some finances, Fletcher says she trusted the wrong people and didn’t have enough control over that money.
“I like to help people, and sometimes by helping people, they take advantage of it,” Brazdovic said.
Soon, those helping Brazdovic learned she had a son that she lost touch with nearly 30 years ago. Fletcher says she became determined to reunite the family.
Through some social media sleuthing, Fletcher found Jennifer Michrina, the daughter-in-law Brazdovic didn’t even know she had, living in Louisiana with Mike Michrina, Brazdovic’s son and their two boys.
Fletcher set up a Zoom call for the family, a surprise for Brazdovic.
Mike Michrina says he and his mom decided to focus on a fresh start, rather than dwelling on the past, and his heart opened back up to her immediately.
“It was kind of interesting not knowing what had happened to my mom for 29 years, but it was good,” he said. “Now that she’s back, I can see what I was missing.”
Soon, Brazdovic was ready to move to be with her family, and they were ready to welcome her. Leaving Nevada, she got a special airport escort: Candland and Chorens walked her right to her gate.
“She thanked us, and she was very excited to see her family,” Chorens said. “It’s incredible. It makes you feel like you accomplished something and you helped somebody out.”
In Louisiana, all four of the Michrinas were at the airport waiting for Brazdovic.
Now, more than a year after Brazdovic was found, she’s safe and surrounded by love, a fresh start thanks to two community relations police officers who never stopped caring.
“God put them in her life just to take care of her,” said Mike Michrina, as he teared up.
Brazdovic says she spends her time playing basketball and going on bike rides with her two grandsons.
“I got to have a family. That is the best part,” she said.
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Page County Sheriff provides update on drug interdiction program
LURAY, Va. (WHSV) - In 2021, more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses across the United States. In the Shenandoah Valley, drugs have been a big problem in Page County over the last several years.
So much so that last year Page County Sheriff Chad Cubbage asked the county’s board of supervisors for funding to create two drug-specific deputy positions.
The board granted Cubbage’s request and on Monday night at its work session will hear an update from Cubbage on the status of the drug interdiction program.
Since the two interdiction deputies started in July they’ve made 13 arrests and confiscated over $6,000 worth of illegal drugs including methamphetamine, mushrooms, and crack cocaine.
The officers have also worked with the Northwest Virginia regional drug task force.
“You can see by the statistics and the numbers that it is making a significant impact but it’s also assisting our task force members because of the amount of information that these interdiction guys are gathering,” said Sheriff Cubbage.
The Northwest Virginia Drug Task Force is made up of deputies from Clarke County, Frederick County, Page County, Shenandoah County, and police officers from Luray, Front Royal, Strasburg, and Winchester. Virginia State Police are part of the task force, too.
Cubbage said he is pleased with the work the interdiction officers have done so far especially since much of the crimes committed across the county are linked to narcotics and drug addiction.
“From larcenies to domestics to financial crimes, a lot of those stem back to addiction and narcotics. So, if we can address the problem at the root which is narcotics, I’m hoping that we will see a decrease in other crimes as well,” he said.
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R.S. Monger & Sons Inc. celebrates 100 years
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) -
“Need lumber - See Monger”. It’s a catchphrase R.S. Monger & Sons Inc. has lived by for the past 100 years.
“I’m just glad we made it,” laughed John Monger.
It all started back in 1922, when Ralph Showalter Monger sold, loaded and delivered sand and lumber to the Shenandoah Valley.
“I feel like a lot of the hard work and groundwork was done before we got here and we are just kind of enjoying the fruits of their labor and continuing it and trying to grow on it and continuing to grow the company,” said J.M. Monger, the Secretary and Treasurer.
Monger and Sons now celebrating its centennial birthday.
“It means a lot to be 100 years and following Dad and Granddad and running this business and keeping it going. A lot of third generations don’t make it to the 4th generation and we’re proud that we did,” said Jim Monger, Vice President.
The company started in one small building with three employees and horse-drawn wagons. Fast forward to 2022, the company now has around 15 buildings, over 40 employees and a fleet of 25 vehicles.
“It means a lot to me because I got to work with my Dad at that time and my cousins but also now I get to work with my son Jim Higgs and now my grandson Dakota Higgs,” said Susan Monger Shifflett, Vice President.
Throughout the years, a lot has changed when it comes to production and shipments. One thing has stayed the same. The love for their customers.
“The customers to me are family. I always say at board meetings and whatnot that our employees are part of the Monger family, but our customers are part of that family...we see them every day. I’ve known most of these customers for over 30 years...Jim, John, my mother...same thing but longer,” said Jim Higgs, President.
Jim Higgs and everyone at Monger and Sons want to thank the community for everything they have done over the past 100 years.
The company will host a 100-year celebration on May 13 with vendors and food.
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State of Georgia reaches settlement with widow of man shot, killed by state trooper
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - A law firm is claiming it reached a $4.8 million settlement with the state of Georgia for the widow of a Black man who was shot and killed by a state trooper. It could be the largest settlement in Georgia history.
In 2020, Georgia State Patrol trooper Jacob Gordon Thompson shot and killed 60-year-old Julian Lewis in Screven County after a police chase, WTOC reported. Thompson was fired from the GSP after the shooting. In 2021, a grand jury returned a no bill in the case, meaning they did not recommend charges for the defendant.
According to the Hall & Lampros law firm, while the settlement doesn’t bring Lewis back, it sends a powerful message to the state, law enforcement and other positions of power that unnecessary use of force against innocent citizens is unlawful, morally corrupt and carries legal consequences.
Attorney Andrew Lampros is part of the legal team for Lewis’ widow. He says the $4.8 million settlement reflects the magnitude of the shooting.
“Mr. Lewis’ case is getting attention now because of the size of the settlement, when it should have received attention because of what happened to him,” he said. “The facts of the case are egregious. He should have never been pulled over, much less shot.”
Lampros says he and the Lewis family are aware that federal prosecutors are looking at the matter and could possibly bring a federal case similar to the Ahmaud Arbery case in Brunswick, Georgia. He says he and family members have also been in touch with prosecutors in Screven County and they are waiting to see what happens next with the state case.
Prosecutors can take a case like this back in front of a new grand jury only once more and there’s no time limit for when they have to do it. District Attorney Daphne Totten said last year that her office would go back over this case to determine how they proceed.
Below are statements from attorney Francys Johnson and Lewis’ son, Brook Bacon:
“This settlement is further proof that Georgia recognizes the wrongs committed against my father, Julian Lewis. My father deserved to survive his encounter with Ex-Georgia State Patrol Jacob Gordon Thompson on Aug. 7, 2020. This is another step toward accountability but we will not rest until his killer is behind bars,” said Brook Bacon, Julian Lewis’ son.
“The State’s case still sits with District Attorney Daphne Totten of the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit. The notion that something terribly wrong didn’t happen out on that dusty dirt road by the hand of Ex-Trooper Jacob Gordon Thompson is simply unbelievable. Citizens should see the video evidence in this case and they will have a clear understanding of why the State of Georgia paid 4.8 Million Dollars to resolve the civil case,” said Francys Johnson, a Statesboro-based partner with Davis Bozeman Johnson Law and lawyer for Julian Lewis’s son Brook Bacon.
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Staunton to hold public workshop on entrance corridor overlay Wednesday
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - The City of Staunton will hold a public workshop April 6 to discuss entrance corridor overlays.
This issue has come to light recently as McDonough Toyota requested permission for a lighted entrance sign. Back in March, city council tabled the request and decided to rewrite the ordinance.
“The entrance corridor overlay districts were originally created by staff in 2008 to provide guidance to people planning new developments, redevelopment or alterations to their business properties in the district,” Michelle Bixler, communications manager for Staunton said.
Staunton upholds a specific look to their downtown area, making entrance corridor signs consecutive throughout, but some businesses are pushing to change that.
“Those guidelines include things like the height of signs, the minimum width of planting beds, or placement of onset utilities underground and there are 13 of them that weave into historic districts like the city of Staunton,” Bixler said.
The public can contribute their thoughts to the city Wednesday.
”It’s gonna begin with a presentation on the evaluation of Staunton corridors and that’ll give attendees some background and then at that point we’re gonna break into small groups and discuss several questions related to the corridors and then we’ll come back together again and share what we’ve heard,” Bixler said.
If you cannot attend the meeting but still want your voice to be heard, there is a survey on the city’s website.
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Strasburg town council to discuss tax rate
STRASBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Strasburg town council is holding a public hearing at its work session on Monday night. The hearing will be to discuss the town’s 2022 real estate tax rate following county-wide property value reassessments in the fall.
The town is advertising a rate of 16 cents per 100 dollars of assessed property value, which is its existing tax rate. That number could be lowered but the town is proposing keeping the rate to increase its revenue in order to balance the budget.
“To equalize our rate we would have to lower our rate to 13.4 cents just a little over 13 cents per 100 to equalize the revenue per the state code,” said Waverly Coggsdale, Strasburg town manager.
The difference between the 13.4 cent rate and the rate the council eventually votes to set will be known as the ‘Effective Tax Rate Increase’ even though the actual rate will not be going up.
“With the new real estate assessments each penny on our tax rate generates roughly 83-84 thousand dollars,” said Coggsdale.
Coggsdale said it’s important to remember the tax rate which will be set either on Monday or at the council’s April 12th meeting will be for the 2022 budget and real estate tax which is due on June 5th.
Coggsdale said residents likely won’t see a huge tax increase but it depends on how much their homes assessed value went up.
Also during the meeting, the council will discuss the 2023 budget which is being proposed at a total of $5.8 million. The council will also hear bids for the installation of new water meters in the town.
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UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’
BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
“It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” he said.
Governments agreed in the 2015 Paris accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) this century, ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). Yet temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, extreme heat, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires, putting human lives in danger and costing governments hundreds of billions of dollars to confront.
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said.
In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.”
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990, said Skea.
The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2019, the report’s authors said. But they voiced “high confidence” that unless countries step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.
“Limiting warming to 1.5C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030,” he said.
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.
Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place.
The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution.
The U.N. panel said 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, which includes China. But China took over the position as world’s top emissions polluter from the United States in the mid-2000s.
Many countries and companies have used recent climate meetings to paint rosy pictures of their emissions-cutting efforts, while continuing to invest in fossil fuels and other polluting activities, Guterres charged.
“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another,” he said. “Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”
The report isn’t without some hope, however.
Its authors highlight myriad ways in which the world can be brought back on track to 2C or even, with great effort, return to 1.5C after that threshold has been passed. This could require measures such as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere with natural or artificial means, but also potentially risky technologies such as pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight.
Among the solutions recommended are a rapid shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy such as increasingly cheap solar and wind power, the electrification of transport, less meat consumption, more efficient use of resources and massive financial support for poor countries unable to pay for such measures without help.
The situation is as if humanity has “gone to the doctor in a very unhealthy condition,” and the doctor is saying “you need to change, it’s a radical change. If you don’t you’re in trouble,” said report co-author Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University Aberdeen.
“It’s not like a diet,” Smith said. “It is a fundamental lifestyle change. It’s changing what you eat, how much you eat and get on a more active lifestyle.”
One move often described as “low-hanging fruit” by scientists is to plug methane leaks from mines, wells and landfills that release the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. A pact forged between the United States and China at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Glasgow aims to do just that.
“The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.
The panel’s reports have become increasingly blunt since the first one was published in 1990, and the latest may be the last before the planet passes 1.5C of warming, Skea told the AP.
Last August, it said climate change caused by humans was “an established fact” and warned that some effects of global warming are already inevitable. In late February, the panel published a report that outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
Still, the British government’s former chief science adviser David King, who wasn’t involved in writing the report, said there are too optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 the world can afford to emit.
“We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
“It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts.
Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
“But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Vulnerable nations said the report showed big polluters have to step up their efforts before the next U.N. climate summit in Egypt this fall.
“We are looking to the G-20, to the world’s biggest emitters, to set ambitious targets ahead of COP27, and to reach those targets – by investing in renewables, cutting out coal and fossil fuel subsidies,” said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. “It’s long past time to deliver on promises made.”
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Upcoming Page County Public Forum to focus on teacher burnout
Published: Apr. 4, 2022 at 11:21 AM EDT
PAGE COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - The Page County Public Forum is excited about hosting the first in-person forum discussion this month.
The forum, happening Wednesday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m., will focus on the topic of teacher burnout and retention.
For those wishing to participate in the forum from home, there will be a Zoom link offered.
More information can be found on the flyer below.
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US obesity rates increased during COVID pandemic, study says
Published: Apr. 4, 2022 at 5:24 PM EDT|Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 5:25 PM EDT
(CNN) – Americans got fatter during the COVID pandemic.
A new study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine shows obesity rates among adults in the U.S. got worse during the COVID pandemic.
The average body mass index in the U.S. increased by 0.6% between March of 2020 and March of 2021 over the previous year, the study says.
The increase happened even as exercise participation rates soared by 4.4%, and as people slept 1.5% more and smoked 4% less.
Researchers didn’t look at diets, so people may have eaten less healthy foods.
A rise in the consumption of alcohol may also have contributed.
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US seizes yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government on Monday seized a 254-foot yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a first by the Biden administration under sanctions imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and targeting pricey assets of Russian elites.
Spain’s Civil Guard and U.S. federal agents descended on the Tango at the Marina Real in the port of Palma de Mallorca, the capital of Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Associated Press reporters at the scene saw police going in and out of the boat.
The U.S. Justice Department, which obtained a warrant from a federal judge in Washington, alleges the yacht should be forfeited for violating U.S. bank fraud, money laundering and sanctions statutes.
Superyachtfan.com, a specialized website that tracks the world’s largest and most exclusive recreational boats, values the 78-meter vessel, which carries the Cook Islands flag, at $120 million.
The yacht is among the assets linked to Viktor Vekselberg, a billionaire and close Putin ally who heads the Moscow-based Renova Group, a conglomerate encompassing metals, mining, tech and other assets, according to U.S. Treasury Department documents.
All of Vekselberg’s assets in the United States are frozen and American companies are barred from doing business with him and his entities. The Ukrainian-born businessman built his fortune by investing in the aluminum and oil industries in the post-Soviet era.
Prosecutors allege Vekselberg bought the Tango in 2011 and has owned it since then, though they believe he has used shell companies to try to obfuscate his ownership and to avoid financial oversight.
They contend Vekselberg and those working for him continued to make payments using U.S. banks to support and maintain the yacht, even after sanctions were imposed on him in 2018. Those payments included a stay in December 2020 at a luxury water villa resort in the Maldives and fees to moor the yacht.
It’s the first U.S. seizure of an oligarch’s yacht since U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assembled a task force known as REPO — short for Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs — as an effort to enforce sanctions after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
“It will not be the last.” Garland said in a statement. “Together, with our international partners, we will do everything possible to hold accountable any individual whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue its unjust war.”
Vekselberg has long had ties to the U.S., including a green card he once held and homes in New York and Connecticut. He was also questioned in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and has worked closely with his American cousin, Andrew Intrater, who heads the New York investment management firm Columbus Nova.
Vekselberg and Intrater were thrust into the spotlight in that investigation after the lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels released a memo that claimed $500,000 in hush money was routed through Columbus Nova to a shell company set up by Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Columbus Nova denied that Vekselberg played any role in its payments to Cohen.
Vekselberg and Intrater met with Cohen at Trump Tower, one of several meetings between members of Trump’s inner circle and high-level Russians during Trump’s 2016 campaign and the transition before his presidency.
The 64-year-old Vekselberg founded Renova Group more than three decades ago. The group holds the largest stake in United Co. Rusal, Russia’s biggest aluminum producer, among other investments.
Vekselberg was first sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018, and again in March of this year, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine began. Vekselberg has also been sanctioned by authorities in the United Kingdom.
The yacht sails under the Cook Islands flag and is owned by a company registered in the British Virgin Islands administered by different societies in Panama, the Civil Guard said, “following a complicated financial and societal web to conceal its truthful ownership.”
Agents confiscated documents and computers inside the yacht that will be analyzed to confirm he real identity of the owner, it said.
The U.S. Justice Department has also launched a sanctions enforcement task force known as KleptoCapture, which also aims to enforce financial restrictions in the U.S. imposed on Russia and its billionaires, working with the FBI, the U.S. Treasury and other federal agencies. That task force will also target financial institutions and entities that have helped oligarchs move money to dodge sanctions.
The White House has said that many allied countries, including German, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and others are involved in trying to collect and share information against Russians targeted for sanctions. In his State of the Union address on March 1, President Joe Biden warned oligarchs that the U.S. and European allies would “find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets.”
“We are coming for your ill-begotten gains,” he said.
Monday’s capture is not the first time Spanish authorities have been involved in the seizure of a Russian oligarch’s superyacht. Officials said they had seized a vessel valued at over $140 million owned by the CEO of a state-owned defense conglomerate and a close Putin ally.
French authorities have seized superyachts, including one believed to belong to Igor Sechin, a Putin ally who runs Russian oil giant Rosneft, which has been on the U.S. sanctions list since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Italy has seized several yachts and other assets.
Italian financial police moved quickly seizing the superyacht Lena belonging to Gennady Timchenko, an oligarch close to Putin, in the port of San Remo; the 65-meter (215-foot) Lady M owned by Alexei Mordashov in nearby Imperia, featuring six suites and estimated to be worth 65 million euros; as well as villas in Tuscany and Como, according to government officials.
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Parra reported from Madrid and Balsamo reported from Washington.
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Valley advocacy groups raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month
AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - During the month of April, Valley child advocacy groups will spread the word about child abuse and neglect, in an effort to motivate the community to learn more.
Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro groups put out pinwheels to represent the families they work with.
“It’s really just a good representation of the children that we work with, the families that we work with. We really like our pinwheel garden with all the differences, different colors, different styles, and I think that’s a good representation of the families we work with as well,” said Mack Smith, CPS Supervisor for Shenandoah Valley Social Services.
Smith and fellow supervisor Amber Martino said this month is important because child abuse and neglect can affect anyone.
“It happens everywhere. It happens to every kind of family. It happens to every different neighborhood, every different school district, every different age of child,” said Martino.
Shenandoah Valley Social Services, Valley Children’s Advocacy Center, Staunton CAC, the health department and law enforcement departments will participate in events throughout the month, and they invite the community to come along.
Not only are they raising awareness for child abuse, but they’re also emphasizing the importance of positive interactions with children, as opposed to anything negative. Smith and Martino said you don’t have to be a parent to positively impact children in your life.
“There’s so many circumstances the parents could be going through that puts a child at greater risk of being abused or neglected, and if we can recognize those signs and try to put supports and things in place before, that’s really our goal,” said Martino.
There’s a sidewalk chalk competition throughout the month called “Let’s Chalk About Prevention” and you can draw your favorite childhood memory, take a photo of it, and email it to chalkaboutprevention@yahoo.com.
Waynesboro, Augusta County and Staunton will also sign proclamation about Child Abuse Awareness Month on April 11, 13, and 14 respectively. They’re also hosting a “Party for Prevention” at Kline’s Dairy Bar in Staunton from 11 until 2 on April 30.
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Virginia COVID-19 cases rise by 394 Monday
19,137,760 total tests have been run for the virus in Virginia, with 1,671,423 positive cases.
Due to the number of vaccinations across our region, we will no longer be updating the COVID-19 hotline.
As of Monday, April 4, Virginia has had 1,671,423 total cases of COVID-19, including confirmed lab tests and clinical diagnoses, according to the Virginia Department of Health.
The Virginia Department of Health reports a 3.4% 7-day positivity rate for total testing encounters, and a 3.2% 7-day positivity rate for PCR tests.
Additional deaths were reported this Monday, leaving the death toll at 19,720.
For a comprehensive summary of COVID-19 cases and testing in Virginia, you can visit the Virginia Department of Health’s website and view their COVID-19 dashboard.
On Sunday, April 18, 2021, vaccine eligibility expanded to all individuals in the Commonwealth age 16 and above.
On Thursday, April 22, 2021, former Governor Northam announced an ease in some of the COVID-19 restrictions for social gatherings that began on Saturday, May 15:
- Social gatherings: The maximum number of individuals permitted in a social gathering will increase to 100 people for indoor settings and 250 people for outdoor settings. Social gatherings are currently limited to 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors.
- Entertainment venues: Indoor entertainment and public amusement venues will be able to operate at 50 percent capacity or 1,000 people, up from 30 percent capacity or 500 people. Outdoor venues will be able to operate at 50 percent capacity — up from 30 percent — with no specific cap on the number of attendees.
- Recreational sporting events: The number of spectators allowed at indoor recreational sporting events will increase from 100 to 250 spectators or 50 percent capacity, whichever is less. Outdoor recreational sporting events will increase from 500 to 1,000 people or 50 percent capacity, whichever is less.
- Alcohol sales: Restaurants may return to selling alcohol after midnight, and dining room closures will no longer be required between midnight and 5:00 a.m.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday, May 13, 2021, vaccinated individuals are no longer required to wear a mask in most circumstances. On Friday, May 14, 2021, Former governor Ralph Northam announced the mask mandate in Virginia would be lifted, and capacity and social distancing restrictions will end on May 28.
Statewide case totals and testing numbers as of April 4
By April 4, the Virginia Department of Health had received reports of 1,199,293 confirmed cases and 472,130 probable cases of COVID-19 across the commonwealth.
Those positive test results are out of 19,137,760 total tests administered in Virginia, which included 13,196,984 PCR tests, 327,051 antibody tests and 5,613,725 antigen tests.
At this point, 49,078 Virginians have been hospitalized due to the disease caused by the virus, and at least 19,720 have died of causes related to the disease.
Where are our local cases?
Here’s a breakdown of cases for our region as of 10:00 a.m. April 4.
Central Shenandoah Health District: 66,889 total cases
Beginning March 10, 2022, the Locality dashboard is no longer being published. Cases by report date and cases by date of illness can be viewed by locality on the Cases dashboard.
Total tests: 742,621
Lord Fairfax Health District: 54,323 total cases
Total tests: 502,619
Northwest Total Outbreaks: 1,002 with 322 in long-term care facilities, 89 in K-12 settings, 73 in healthcare settings, 41 in correctional facilities, 330 in congregate settings, 65 in college/university settings and 82 in child care settings.
Note: VDH has changed the way it tracks outbreaks. They are now grouped by regions instead of health districts.
COVID-19 Vaccine in Virginia
The Virginia Department of Health has launched a data dashboard showcasing the number of COVID-19 vaccines that have been distributed and administered throughout the commonwealth.
According to the data dashboard, as of April 4, 6,996,159 people have been vaccinated with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 6,252,959 people are fully vaccinated.
18,428,225 total vaccine doses have been distributed throughout the state.
Recovery
The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association’s online dashboard indicates that, as of April 4, at least 107,246 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospital.
Unlike the VDH data that reports cumulative hospitalizations, their data on hospitalizations reflects people currently hospitalized for COVID-19 (whether with confirmed or pending cases), and that number is 230.
West Virginia updates
Here at WHSV, we cover Grant County, Hardy County and Pendleton County. The below information is the most recent data from each counties’ health department. You can find West Virginia’s COVID-19 dashboard here.
There are 498,035 total cases in West Virginia as of April 4.
Grant County: 3,765 total COVID-19 cases
Hardy County: 4,177 total COVID-19 cases
Pendleton County: 1,945 total COVID-19 cases
For the latest factual information on COVID-19, you’re encouraged to check both the Virginia Department of Health and the CDC.
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West Virginia lawsuit against opioid makers set to start
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Opening arguments are set in a lawsuit in West Virginia accusing several drugmakers of misrepresenting the risks and benefits of opioids.
The bench trial starts Monday in Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s lawsuit against Janssen, Teva, Allergan and their family of companies.
The defendants are accused of engaging in strategic campaigns to deceive prescribers. That led to opioids becoming a common treatment for chronic pain and fueled substance abuse in West Virginia.
The state has the nation’s highest rate of drug overdose deaths. The lawsuit alleges violations of the state Consumer Credit and Protection Act.
The trial in Charleston is expected to take up to two months.
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WHO says 99% of world’s population breathes poor-quality air
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.
The World Health Organization, about six months after tightening its guidelines on air quality, on Monday issued an update to its database on air quality that draws on information from a growing number of cities, towns and villages across the globe — now over 6,000 municipalities.
WHO said 99% of the global population breathes air that exceeds its air-quality limits and is often rife with particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs, enter the veins and arteries and cause disease. Air quality is poorest in WHO’s eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions, followed by Africa, it said.
“After surviving a pandemic, it is unacceptable to still have 7 million preventable deaths and countless preventable lost years of good health due to air pollution,” said Dr. Maria Neira, head of WHO’s department of environment, climate change and health. “Yet too many investments are still being sunk into a polluted environment rather than in clean, healthy air.”
The database, which has traditionally considered two types of particulate matter known as PM2.5 and PM10, for the first time has included ground measurements of nitrogen dioxide. The last version of the database was issued in 2018.
Nitrogen dioxide originates mainly from human-generated burning of fuel, such as through automobile traffic, and is most common in urban areas. Exposure can bring respiratory disease like asthma and symptoms like coughing, wheezing and difficulty in breathing, and more hospital and emergency-room admissions, WHO said. The highest concentrations were found in the eastern Mediterranean region.
On Monday, the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus suffered through high concentrations of atmospheric dust for the third straight day, with some cities experiencing three and nearly four times the 50 micrograms per square meter that authorities consider normal. Officials said the microscopic particles could be especially harmful to young children, the elderly and the ill.
Particulate matter has many sources, such as transportation, power plants, agriculture, the burning of waste and industry – as well as from natural sources like desert dust. The developing world is particularly hard hit: India had high levels of PM10, while China showed high levels of PM2.5, the database showed.
“Particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is capable of penetrating deep into the lungs and entering the bloodstream, causing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular (stroke) and respiratory impacts,” WHO said. “There is emerging evidence that particulate matter impacts other organs and causes other diseases as well.”
The findings highlight the sheer scale of the changes needed to combat air pollution, said Anumita Roychowdhury, an air pollution expert at Center for Science and Environment, a research organization in New Delhi.
India and the world need to brace for major changes to try to curb air pollution, including using electric vehicles, shifting away from fossil fuels, embracing a massive scaling-up of green energy and separating out types of waste, she said.
The Council on Energy, Environment and Water, a New Delhi-based think tank, found that more than 60% of India’s PM2.5 loads are from households and industries. Tanushree Ganguly, who heads the council’s program on air quality, called for action toward reducing emissions from industries, automobiles, biomass burning and domestic energy.
“We need to prioritize clean energy access for households that need it the most, and take active measures to clean up our industrial sector,” she said.
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Aniruddha Ghosal in New Delhi contributed to this report.
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Surge Protection 101
If you’re a savvy electronics owner, you probably keep your desktop computer, home entertainment equipment and other sensitive devices plugged into a surge protector at all times. As you might already know, an ordinary power strip and one that provides surge protection are a world apart. Make sure the power strips you use aren’t just glorified extension cords, but that they actually protect against power surges.
The purpose of any surge protector is to defend appliances and electronics against sudden jolts of electricity that could shorten their lifespan or fry them completely in one fell swoop. The quick solution you might come up with is to simply equip every outlet with a surge protector and voilá: you’ve got makeshift surge protection for every electronic device in the house.
That’s one way to do it, but a more convenient, all-encompassing approach is to install a whole house surge protector at the breaker panel.
How to Protect Devices from Power Surges
A power surge can make your air conditioner stop working. The same way a lightning strike sends a jolt to the heart, a sudden surge of electricity carries thousands or tens of thousands of volts through your home’s wiring. This makes your electronics, appliances, and HVAC system vulnerable to the damaging effects of power surges. To protect these devices, follow these tips:
• Plug electricity-powered items into surge protectors: Remember, there’s a difference between ordinary power strips and those that provide surge protection. Make sure the ones you use aren’t just glorified extension cords but that they’re bonafide surge protectors.
• Install whole-house surge protection: This option safeguards the wiring throughout your home against the damaging effects of power surges. It shields everything from your central air conditioner to your computer’s hard drive from externally sourced power surges. As a bonus, whole-house surge protection also provides an internal safeguard.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) just released its schedule for public high school graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2022.
Mililani High School will kick off the graduation season with its ceremony on May 16 at the Stan Sheriff Center on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus.
While the DOE's guidelines have been eased to reflect less restrictive COVID-19 requirements, certain restrictions will still apply:
Ceremonies must be held outdoors or in a venue with adequate ventilation or fans/filtration systems. Third-party venues that comply with county social gathering rules are allowed.
All participants must be fully vaccinated or provide a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 48 hours prior to the ceremony. If someone unvaccinated has no symptoms of illness and no known exposure to someone with COVID-19, a negative COVID-19 self-test result is sufficient.
Graduates will be allowed to bring a pre-set number of household members as ceremony guests. The amount of guests will be determined by each school based on capacity.
Masks must be worn at all times for indoor ceremonies. Masks worn indoors may be removed briefly for picture-taking.
“As our ceremonies continue to adapt to improving conditions, this year’s celebrations will be more open than the virtual and drive-thru ceremonies of 2020 and the hybrid ceremonies of 2021 while adhering to current guidelines," said interim superintendent Keith Hayashi.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- On July 8, 2020, the then 17-year-old Melia Kalahiki decided to go to Kahala Beach after she just learned that she fulfilled her graduation requirements for Kalani High School.
What began as a relaxing afternoon, ended in Kalahiki being rushed to the hospital after she was stabbed 15 times.
During the second day of trial for the man alleged to have stabbed her, Kalahiki recalled someone pulling her head back, covering her mouth, then being impaled in the neck, shoulder and hands.
"I was there by myself and I didn't understand what was happening until I saw the blood," Kalahiki recounted.
In court, Kalahiki pointed out 19-year-old Erik Willis as the man she believes stabbed her. Willis has been charged with second-degree attempted murder in connection to the case.
Kalahiki claims she remembered seeing Willis sitting on the beach near her that day.
Defense attorney Eric Seitz questioned the accuracy of what she saw given that traces of methamphetamine and valium were found in her urine after a routine drug test administered while she was hospitalized for her stab wounds.
However, Kalahiki denied ever taking drugs before or on the day of the stabbing. Her attorney Lawrence Sousie said footage indicates Willis took a bus from his home in Niu Valley to a stop near the scene and left three hours later, placing him near the crime scene around the time the incident happened.
Seitz argued the evidence is too circumstantial, and no witnesses can account for Willis' whereabouts during that three hour span.
"There is no evidence linking Erik Willis to the crime or the crime scene, no witness testimony, no physical evidence, no weapon, no reason or motive for the attack," Seitz added.
Sousie acknowledged the evidence is circumstantial, but "paints a very clear picture and timeline which puts the defendant at the scene. She (Kalahiki) testified very credibly that Erik Willis is the person who stabbed her that day."
"She also denied to taking drugs ever, not withstanding the toxicology report, which is anything but just numbers so it doesn't carry," Sousie added.
Willis waived his right to testify Tuesday. Court is set to reconvene Wednesday and jurors are expected to deliberate.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - The Hawaii State Teachers Association presented the 2022 Friend of Youth Award to Nikki-Ann Yee, the co-founder of Ma’i Movement Hawaii.
The association members say this year’s recipient is an outstanding member of the community who works hard to support Hawaii’s keiki in several ways.
In October 2020, Nikki and her sister created Ma’i Movement Hawaii, a volunteer-run organization that raises awareness on menstrual equity and period poverty in Hawaii. The officials at Ma’i Movement believe that all young girls and women have the right to access menstrual products without worries of costs, embarrassment and stigma.
In a year and a half of operations, Nikki and her sisters organized the distribution of almost 300,000 period products across the islands as well as created a pilot program through six schools that provided menstrual product stations all over their campuses.
Nikki-Ann Yee has been a driving advocate for Senate Bill 2821. If passed, the bill would provide free menstrual products to students and teachers in Hawaii Public Schools. The bill was approved unanimously by the House Finance Committee and will move to a full floor vote in the House and Senate.
She was nominated by Sarah Milianta-Laffin, who serves on HSTA’s Board of Directors. Miliana-Laffin said that in addition to Nikki’s work in the state legislature to fight period poverty, Nikki is also committed to creating programs to educate and inspire students on the topic.
“This is not just about providing period products but about addressing basic gender and socioeconomic inequities in our society,” said Nikki. “We are in the middle of a big win but our fight is not over. We need to press Governor Igen to sign Senate Bill 2821.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- MaryLou Depondicchello has learned how to give herself treatments for lymphedema -- a side effect of breast cancer.
A necessary routine because she can't always see a doctor.
"So I have learned strategies myself of what to do. And my specialists thank goodness who have left taught me the lymphedema massages to give myself and I've had to ask my own husband to help me," she said.
Diagnosed with breast cancer nine years ago, she's had a difficult time getting care right away.
"I found out that I had cancer and then I had to wait weeks to go get was called a PET scan and to find out if it had spread. So those four weeks I will say were the scariest of my life," Depondicchello said.
She, along with many others, say the delays are even worse today.
Wait times across the state can be more than six months, according to the Hawaii State Rural Health Association.
"And even for cancer patients, which is unheard of because that can be the difference between life and death," said Lisa Rantz, president for the Hawaii State Rural Health Association. "It's frightening to look at the shortages that we're experiencing across the board."
The Hawaii/Pacific Basin Basin Area Health Education Center puts the shortage of doctors at more than 700. And the future outlook is grim.
"I hear you know every week from patients that their physician's practice closed or you know something happened to them or they sold their practice. So we're in for a little bit of, you know, a bumpy ride," said Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.
Depondicchello wishes the ride were smoother.
"I'm always anxious. It's just something of being a cancer survivor," she said.
The Hawaii State Rural Health Association is currently surveying residents and providers about access-to-care issues. And those in the medical field are working on better ways to recruit and retain providers and get more children interested in science and medicine to prevent a health-care crisis.
Kristen joined KITV4 in March 2021 after working for the past two decades as a newspaper reporter. Kristen's goal is to produce meaningful journalism that educates, enlightens and inspires to affect positive change in society.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has certified a class-action lawsuit in Oregon over state leaders’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic inside its prisons.
A group of adults in custody who contracted COVID-19 first sued the state in April 2020, alleging culpability by Gov. Kate Brown, Corrections Department Director Colette Peters and Health Authority Director Patrick Allen, among other state officials. The lawsuit acknowledges Corrections has taken some measures but argues they have not been enough.
“This really is quite a groundbreaking order, and decision, and it could potentially be a model for advocates in other parts of the country where they’re having similar problems,” Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s National Prison Project, told Oregon Public Broadcasting this week.
In Oregon, 45 people in the Department of Corrections custody have so far died after testing positive for COVID-19, and more than 5,000 people have tested positive for the virus while in custody.
Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman signed off on a wrongful death class that will include the estates of 45 adults who died in the state’s custody and “for whom COVID-19 caused or contributed to their death.” The other is a damages class that would include anyone incarcerated after Feb. 1, 2020, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 at least 14 days after they were incarcerated.
The state could appeal Beckerman’s ruling, settle, or take the cases to trial. Spokespersons for the governor’s office, the Oregon Department of Corrections and the state’s Department of Justice declined to comment on the pending litigation.
Attorneys bringing the lawsuit have already used it to secure vaccines for adults in custody in February 2021 before vaccines were widely available.
In her ruling, Beckerman said she found the theory of the case was sufficient to certify classes. Other questions, she wrote, could only be answered by a jury, should the cases go to trial. For example, Beckerman did not answer whether the state acted with deliberate indifference, or whether that indifference was the reason thousands were sickened with COVID-19.
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In this screen shot from video of her court appearance, romance writer Nancy Crampton Brophy appears in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 6, 2018, on one count of murder with a firearm constituting domestic violence in the June death of her husband, Daniel Brophy, a chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute who was found shot in the school’s kitchen. Crampton Brophy’s trial started Monday, April 4, 2022.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The trial of a self-published romance writer accused of fatally shooting her chef husband started Monday.
Nancy Crampton Brophy has remained in custody since her arrest in September 2018, facing a murder charge in the death of Daniel Brophy, 63, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
He was killed as he prepped for work at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Southwest Portland around 7:30 a.m. on June 2.
Nancy Crampton Brophy is a self-published romance writer who years before her husband’s death penned an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband.” Brophy’s death remained a mystery until his wife’s arrest, and authorities have never publicly disclosed another suspect.
Investigators determined there were no signs of force or struggle and no signs of robbery. Brophy still had his wallet, cellphone, and car keys with him, documents said.
Traffic cameras show Crampton Brophy’s minivan approaching and departing from city streets near the institute close to the apparent time of the shooting, court documents said.
Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet told jurors Monday that Crampton Brophy was motivated by greed and a $1.4 million insurance policy.
Lead defense attorney Lisa Maxfield said Crampton Brophy and her finances both deteriorated after Brophy’s death, far from the prosecution’s claim that she profited from ill-gotten gains.
She previously entered not guilty plea to the charge.
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While many improvements have been made to the Ross Ragland Theater over the 33 years since it’s renovation in 1989, this is the first opportunity staff has had to replace the theater’s grand curtain.
Like the original curtain from 1989, the new grand curtain was made by Stagecraft industries Inc. based out of Portland. Without their team's help the crew at the Ragland wouldn’t have been able to finish the install in the timeframe that was made available, and without a grand curtain the theater’s many scheduled shows would have been postponed.
Weighing in at over 300 pounds each, the curtain took several days and the help of many crew members to install.
With the new grand curtain, crew members also installed new electric curtain tracks, a motorized pulley system, and a grand valance. And while it was hard to say goodbye to the Ragland’s original grand curtain that was put up when the theater was revived in 1989, after 33 years of use it was a much-needed improvement. The old curtain operated with a hand-pulled pulley system and the new state of the art motorized system is one that many crew members here at the theater are excited to see put in place.
The old bearings on the original curtain didn’t roll well at all, making it nearly impossible for most people to use. It had become so hard to open and close the curtain that more often than not it was just left open. And after years of holes needing repairs and the curtain’s material degrading it was time to see the old curtain go.
Replacing the old curtain didn’t come easily. Ordered back in August of 2021, the grand curtain was set to be installed in November of last year. After months of shipping delays due to the pandemic, the curtains install was finally completed on March 31, 2022.
“This project has been in the works for quite a while” said Technical Director Erik Flores, “We’re thrilled to share this exciting new improvement to the Ragland with the public.”
The Ragland has many shows planned throughout the summer here at theater. So, on your next visit to the Ragland make sure to keep an eye out for the brand-new grand curtain that the staff are all very proud of. They hope to continue to improve their facilities and offer quality entertainment to the Klamath Basin for years to come.
Call 884-LIVE today to speak with our box office about upcoming events!
Visit the theater’s website at www.ragland.org to find out more about our upcoming events and learn more about the theater. You can also get your tickets in advance through our website! The box office is open 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or two hours before show time the day of any show.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza.
Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already are kept inside and usually protected behind glass in their exhibits, making it harder for the bird flu to reach them.
Nearly 23 million chickens and turkeys have already been killed across the United States to limit the spread of the virus, and zoos are working hard to prevent any of their birds from meeting the same fate. It would be especially upsetting for zoos to have to kill any of the endangered or threatened species in their care.
“It would be extremely devastating,” said Maria Franke, who is the manager of welfare science at Toronto Zoo, which has less than two dozen Loggerhead Shrike songbirds that it’s breeding with the hope of reintroducing them into the wild. “We take amazing care and the welfare and well being of our animals is the utmost importance. There’s a lot of staff that has close connections with the animals that they care for here at the zoo.”
Toronto Zoo workers are adding roofs to some outdoor bird exhibits and double-checking the mesh surrounding enclosures to ensure it will keep wild birds out.
Birds shed the virus through their droppings and nasal discharge. Experts say it can be spread through contaminated equipment, clothing, boots and vehicles carrying supplies. Research has shown that small birds that squeeze into zoo exhibits or buildings can also spread the flu, and that mice can even track it inside.
So far, no outbreaks have been reported at zoos, but there have been wild birds found dead that had the flu. For example, a wild duck that died in a behind-the-scenes area of the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa, after tornadoes last month tested positive, zoo spokesman Ryan Bickel said.
Most of the steps zoos are taking are designed to prevent contact between wild birds and zoo animals. In some places, officials are requiring employees to change into clean boots and don protective gear before entering bird areas.
When bird flu cases are found in poultry, officials order the entire flock to be killed because the virus is so contagious. However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has indicated that zoos might be able to avoid that by isolating infected birds and possibly euthanizing a small number of them.
Sarah Woodhouse, director of animal health at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, said she is optimistic after talking with state and federal regulators.
“They all agree that ordering us to depopulate a large part of our collection would be the absolute last-ditch effort. So they’re really interested in working with us to see what we can do to make sure that we’re not going to spread the disease while also being able to take care of our birds and not have to euthanize,” Woodhouse said.
Among the precautions zoos are taking is to keep birds in smaller groups so that if a case is found, only a few would be affected. The USDA and state veterinarians would make the final decision about which birds had to be killed.
“Euthanasia is really the only way to keep it from spreading,” said Luis Padilla, who is vice president of animal collections at the Saint Louis Zoo. “That’s why we have so many of these very proactive measures in place.”
The National Aviary in Pittsburgh — the nation’s largest —- is providing individual health checks for each of its roughly 500 birds. Many already live in large glass enclosures or outdoor habitats where they don’t have direct exposure to wildlife, said Dr. Pilar Fish, the aviary’s senior director of veterinary medicine and zoological advancement.
Kansas City Zoo CEO Sean Putney said he’s heard a few complaints from visitors, but most people seem OK with not getting to see some birds. “I think our guests understand that we have what’s in the best interests of the animals in mind when we make these decisions even though they can’t get to see them,” Putney said.
Officials emphasize that bird flu doesn’t jeopardize the safety of meat or eggs or represent a significant risk to human health. No infected birds are allowed into the food supply, and properly cooking poultry and eggs kills bacteria and viruses. No human cases have been found in the U.S., according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Associated Press Writers David Pitt contributed to this report from Des Moines, Iowa, Lindsay Whitehurst contributed from Salt Lake City, Julie Watson contributed from San Diego, Chris Grygiel contributed from Seattle and Tom Tait contributed from Las Vegas.
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Moments after the Academy Awards slap heard ‘round the world, Will Smith huddled during a commercial break with Denzel Washington, another of the Best Actor nominees.
No one could hear what Smith discussed with the man who is both an A-list player and the rare Hollywood superstar who has — after years in hot press spotlights — emerged as a mentor on issues of faith and family.
But Smith appeared to have Washington on his mind during his emotional remarks after winning the Oscar for his work in “King Richard.” Smith apologized to his peers for slap-punching Chris Rock after his jest about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Rock apparently didn’t know she was suffering hair loss from alopecia.
“In this moment, I am overwhelmed by what God is calling on me to do and be in this world. ... I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people,” said Smith, tears on his face. “I know that to do what we do, you gotta be able to take abuse, you gotta be able to have people talk crazy about you. In this business, you gotta be able to have people disrespecting you. And you gotta smile and pretend that that’s OK.”
When Washington offered quiet words of encouragement from offstage, Smith thanked him and added: “Denzel said to me, at the highest moment, be careful — that’s when the devil comes for you.”
This was not ordinary Oscars God-talk.
This drama triggered waves of social media angst, with critics and millions of viewers debating who to blame for the crisis during an otherwise-meandering show shaped by politics, pandemics, gender, race and low ratings.
“Some people appreciate that the ‘King Richard’ actor was rightly defending his wife’s honor, saying Rock went too far when making fun of Pinkett Smith,” noted educator Cerith Gardiner, writing for the Catholic website Aleteia. “Others were appalled by Smith’s violent response to the insensitive joke. Yet, out of all the rapidly forming opinions, there is one voice that made a lot of sense,” wrote Gardiner, referring to Washington.
His sobering statement about temptation and fame during this “normally glamorous evening,” she noted, “reminds us that these Hollywood stars, (whom) some hero-worship, have their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.”
It helped to know that comics have been jabbing at the Smiths for years, in part because of constant social media banter about their unconventional — some have said “open” — marriage. There was, for example, this 2013 Facebook comment from Pinkett Smith: “Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationship ... this means we have a GROWN one.”
Denzel and Pauletta Washington have, in nearly four decades together, survived their own roller coaster ride of Hollywood rumors and speculation. In 1995, they renewed their marriage vows in rites led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
During a 2013 interview with Ebony magazine, Pauletta was blunt, noting: “He’s a sex symbol. Everybody’s around him. And when we’re out, they push me over and run me over to get to him. That part is not so cute. ... I live with this man. I see the down part. I see the sad part. I see every part. He has, and knows he has, that stability in me as his wife.”
At the same time, Washington has become increasingly vocal about his pilgrimage deeper into the Pentecostal faith of his childhood, when he was raised as the son of a Church of God in Christ pastor. Time after time, he has publicly linked his vows to God and his wife.
What did Washington tell Smith? His words may have echoed his 2019 remarks after receiving the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award.
The actor thanked his wife for “40 years of sacrifice, 40 years of forgiveness, of talking about faith, spirituality, love, real love, unwavering love in spite of myself. I would not be alive without Pauletta Washington.”
The bottom line, said Washington, was an even higher love: “I’m up here to say thank you to God for giving me this ability, for blessing me, for shaping me, for chastising me, for teaching me, for punishing me, for allowing me to be a vessel and touch people around the world.”
Terry Mattingly leads GetReligion.org and lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is a senior fellow at the Overby Center at the University of Mississippi.
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WATCH: Amazon worker accused of forcing his way into woman’s house
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WSOC) - An Amazon worker arrested after allegedly pushing his way into a woman’s home and locking the door behind him no longer delivers for the company, according to a statement.
A delivery person in an Amazon vest can be seen on video Monday walking up to a woman’s house in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ringing the doorbell. The man was later identified as 26-year-old Isaiah McCall, and Amazon confirmed he worked delivering packages for the company.
But in this case, McCall wasn’t carrying a package. When the homeowner answered the door, he asked if she had a package she wasn’t supposed to get. She said no and closed the door.
Video then shows McCall go around the side and peer back around toward the house. He came back to the door a few minutes later and asked again about a package.
The woman says McCall then pushed his way inside her home and locked the door. She panicked, but she wasn’t alone. Her dog, Conway, came to the rescue. She told Conway to sic McCall, and the dog lunged for him.
Obviously scared, the suspect fumbled and unlocked the door. The woman pushed him back out of her house and locked the door behind him.
Melvin McCoy lives next door. He didn’t hear any commotion but claims he saw McCall walking the neighborhood and following the victim.
“Why would you be so bold to do it in daylight?” McCoy said. “She walks her dog every day around the same time... and here he come, back behind her. So, basically, he targeted her, but he targeted the wrong one, though.”
Police say McCall led them on a chase that ended in Huntersville. He was found in the same clothes as seen in video from the victim, but he was longer wearing the Amazon vest. The victim says police took her to the scene to identify the suspect.
Authorities charged McCall with breaking and/or entering, eluding arrest and resisting an officer.
Amazon said in a statement that he no longer delivers for the company.
“The safety and security of our customers is our top priority, and we’re thankful the customer is safe. This incident does not represent the high standards we have for drivers who deliver our packages,” read the statement in part.
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Environmental group's art initiative aims to brighten up 24 storm drains in 3 cities
A local group is looking for artwork proposals through the end of this month as part of an initiative to raise environmental awareness about storm drains.
The Friends of the St. Clair River is taking submissions for the Thumb Coast Drain Art Project, which aims to bring murals to the public by painting sidewalks adjacent to storm drains in Port Huron, St. Clair, and Marine City. According to a release this week, the organization cited a lack of awareness that stormwater runoff isn’t treated before drains flow directly to local rivers.
“A painted storm drain reminds the community that what goes into the drain ends up in our rivers,” Sheri Faust, president of Friends, said in a statement. “When people make the storm drain-river connection, they are more likely to keep them clean.”
Artists of all ages are welcome to propose multiple designs that reflect themes that include:
- Keep it clean, we’re all downstream
- Storm drains aren’t garbage cans
- Only rain in the drain
- Be the solution to pollution
The selection of artists will be in May to bring the art to life in June, July, and August at 24 storm drains in the three St. Clair County communities. The resulting work is expected to be visible in locations, such as along the Bridge-to-Bay Trail, park entrances, and sidewalk intersections.
This project is in partnership with Blue Water Creativity, St. Clair Art Association, River Rec Teen Zone, Community Foundation of St. Clair County’s Blue Water Arts Committee, and local communities.
“This is part of an ongoing community youth arts initiative, which strives to connect area youth with experienced artists in learning new skills, developing meaningful connections, and collectively growing through the arts,” Jason Stier, a Riverview East High School art instructor and chairman of the association, said in a statement.
Design proposals must be submitted by April 30. Details can be found at www.scriver.org/StormDrainArt.
Contact Jackie Smith at (810) 989-6270 or jssmith@gannett.com.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- When police stop drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians for breaking the law, officers ask for their personal information. Currently, if the person refuses to provide that information, police can issue a citation.
A bill moving through the Legislature would elevate the offense to a petty misdemeanor, giving police the power to arrest someone who refuses to provide his or her name, address, and proof thereof during a traffic stop.
On Wednesday, the Hawaii Senate Judiciary committee is set to decide on whether to move House Bill 1453 forward.
The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) supports the bill, saying in written testimony that "the requirement to issue a citation for this offense is not practical when the violator refuses to provide the information required for a citation."
The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers also supports the bill.
However, the Office of the Public Defender opposes the bill, saying in written testimony that "many of our homeless cannot provide proof of identification for the simple reason that they do not possess any form of identification."
In Hawaii, a petty misdemeanor is punishable by up to 30 days in jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA.
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16 Ochsner Researchers Rank Among the Top 2% in Their Fields
NEW ORLEANS – From Ochsner Health:
Sixteen Ochsner Health researchers have earned the honor of being labeled in the top 2% of their fields worldwide, according to a significant Stanford University study that ranks academics based on the impact of their publications. The distinction reinforces Ochsner’s commitment to excellence and innovation in healthcare, education, and research, with a mission to lead and to serve.
The ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, measures academic achievement based on bibliometric information and includes more than 160,000 researchers from the more than 8 million scientists considered to be active around the globe. Altogether, 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields are considered in the list.
“We are thrilled that sixteen of our physicians from across the Ochsner Health system have been recognized in this illustrious and influential group of researchers,” said W. Mark Roberts, MD, MMM, Dean of Research at Ochsner Health. “As a system that boasts having the top-ranked hospital in Louisiana, Ochsner continually proves its dedication to medical innovation and to improving outcomes for communities in our neighborhoods and beyond.”
The Stanford database is divided into two categories: career-long citation impact and single-year impact, based on the 2021 ranking. In total, 16 Ochsner researchers appear on one or both lists. The first is based on the number of times a scholar’s work is cited throughout their career. Fourteen Ochsner researchers from Ochsner Health System, Ochsner Medical Center, Ochsner Baptist Medical Center and Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute were included in this category, for work that dates back to 1954. For the single-year impact, nine Ochsner faculty were recognized.
Earning a place among the world’s top 2% of scientists ranked in their subfields over 20 years are the following Ochsner researchers:
- Carl “Chip” Lavie, MD, Ochsner’s Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention
- Edward Frohlich, MD, Alton Ochsner Distinguished Scientist at Ochsner Clinic Foundation (now deceased)
- David Gellinger Kline, MD, a Specialist in Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine
- Richard Milani, MD, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Ochsner Health
- Lawrence Blonde, MD, Director, Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit
- Richard Re, MD, Section Head of Hypertension at Ochsner Health
- Richard Eugene Ramsay, MD, a Neurology Specialist at Ochsner Health
- George Pankey, MD, Ochsner’s Director of Infectious Diseases Research
- Stephen Fortunato, MD, a Women’s Health Medicine Specialist
- Armin Schubert, MD, Vice President for Medical Affairs, Quality and Patient Safety at Ochsner Medical Center
- Juan Ochoa, MD, Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Ochsner Medical Center
- Edward Bluth, MD, Diagnostic Radiology Specialist
- S.B. Deitelzweig, MD, System Department Chair of Hospital Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs for Ochsner Health
- Gabriel Uwaifo, MD, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Specialist
Earning a place among the world’s top 2% of scientists ranked for 2021 are the following Ochsner researchers:
- Carl “Chip” Lavie, MD, Ochsner’s Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention
- Richard Milani, MD, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Ochsner Health
- Lawrence Blonde, MD, Director, Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit
- Edward Frohlich, MD, Alton Ochsner Distinguished Scientist at Ochsner Clinic Foundation (now deceased)
- George Pankey, MD, Ochsner’s Director of Infectious Diseases Research
- Edward McCoul, MD, Rhinology Specialist at Ochsner Health
- J.R. Biggio, MD, System Chair, Women’s Services and System Chair, Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Ochsner Baptist
- S.B. Deitelzweig, MD, System Department Chair of Hospital Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs for Ochsner Health
- Gabriel Uwaifo, MD, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Specialist
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6th Annual Girod Street Stroll Set for April 23 in Old Mandeville
MANDEVILLE, La. — From the Old Mandeville Business Association:
The OMBA will host its sixth annual Girod Street Stroll on Saturday, April 23 in Old Mandeville. The event is presented by the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency.
The annual event will take place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Girod Street from the Mandeville Trailhead to the Lakefront. Patrons will enjoy more than 20 stroll stops featuring light tasting plates by top local chefs, or New Orleans-inspired bourbon craft cocktails. Each cocktail stop will put their own creative spin on a classic bourbon drink.
“We are excited to be bringing this community event back this Spring,” said OMBA board member Andre Judice. “As one of Mandeville’s most anticipated events, it provides an opportunity to enjoy the work of our area’s talented artists, good food, and classic cocktails, all in a beautiful and historic setting.”
As part of the fun, businesses will compete for bragging rights, as event patrons will have the opportunity to vote on site for their favorite craft cocktail and favorite small plate. In addition, OMBA will raffle off a live painting of the event created on site by artist Paula Tregre of Blue Love’s Art Gallery. The event will also feature a number of local art vendors selling their original work, and live musical entertainment by Brass Hearts Brass Band and more.
Patrons must purchase a commemorative stroll cup online ($40), which is their ticket to sample all food and beverages at the event. A limited number of tickets are available. Tickets can be purchased online at www.oldmandevillebusiness.org, and cups can be picked up at the corner of Girod and Monroe Streets (near The Rusty Pelican) beginning at 3:30PM on the day of the event. All patrons must show their photo ID and e-ticket or printed ticket to pick up their cup. Participants must be at least 21 to participate, and no patron can pick up another patron’s stroll cup.
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Boys & Girls Clubs Appoint New President and CEO
NEW ORLEANS – Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana board chair David Gallo announced the appointment of Angel Nelson to president and CEO effective immediately. He said Nelson brings a wealth of leadership from multiple Boys & Girls Club organizations across the United States.
“Our board of directors is thrilled to have a leader of Angel’s caliber heading our organization,” he said. “Angel’s passion for our youth and her rich experience will keep us on a strong trajectory to grow Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana into an even greater, more successful organization.”
Nelson joined Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana in February 2021 as the chief operating officer. She began her journey within the Boys & Girls Club Movement in 2001 as a volunteer. In her 21 years with Boys & Girls Clubs, she has held many senior leadership positions including chief operating officer for Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula, director of operations for Boys & Girls Clubs of the Trident Area in Charleston, S.C., and area director for Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Charlotte, in Charlotte, N.C. Prior to becoming the area director in Charlotte, she was the executive director for Girls Inc. of Southwest Hampton Roads, Virginia. She also served 20 years in the United States Navy.
Nelson holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration and an Associate of Arts from Saint Leo University. She is a graduate of Boys & Girls Club Leadership University School of Management through the University of Michigan-Ross School of Business and obtained a certificate in human resource management in the United States Navy.
“I could not be more grateful for the opportunity to serve as president and CEO for this incredible organization,” said Nelson. “I am humbled to step into this role and look forward to working with the board, staff and our partners to expand upon our impact on young people in metro Louisiana.”
Nelson will succeed Pat Van Burkleo who retired in January after more than 30 years of service with Boys & Girls Clubs.
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Danos Marks 75 Years in Business
GRAY, La. (press release) – From its founding in 1947 in Larose, La., Danos has continuously evolved and expanded to serve its customers. This year, the family-owned and managed company celebrates 75 years as a leading service provider to the energy industry. With nearly 2,500 employees, Danos services approximately 150 customers across 17 states.
CEO Paul Danos credits the company’s longevity to three generations of leadership upholding an unwavering commitment to shared values.
“When I reflect on the key to Danos’ sustained success, I think about our values of integrity, safety, service, respect and improvement. These founding principles have guided the company for 75 years. Although we’ve said them in different ways over the years, they are the core of who our organization is today,” he said.
Throughout 2022, Danos will be celebrating with a 75th Anniversary Road Show. The company will host a series of events in Louisiana and Texas to honor and thank employees, customers and the many partners who have been integral to the organization’s success since 1947. In addition, company employees have pledged to volunteer 1,947 hours to nonprofit organizations in honor of the Danos’ founding year.
As for the company’s future in the ever-evolving energy industry, Danos says, “While many of our established service offerings remain vital to the transitioning industry, we are also actively expanding our capabilities to ensure we remain in step with our customers.”
In recent years, the expansion has included significant advancements in technology-based solutions delivering improved workforce capacity and employee skill development and an automated warehouse management system that improves operational efficiency and increases customers’ returns.
“We are excited about the future and the growing number of opportunities to deliver the ‘Danos difference’ to new and established customers,” said Danos.
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Fried Chicken Festival Set for Oct. 1-2 at the N.O. Lakefront
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — The organizers of the fifth annual National Fried Chicken Festival presented by Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers have announced the event is scheduled to take place Oct. 1-2 at the New Orleans Lakefront.
Featuring live music and some of the best chefs and restaurants in New Orleans and nationally showcasing their best versions of the dish, the festival returns after a two-year hiatus due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
“It has been incredible to see the return of so many events that our city has been missing over the course of the last two years,” said Cleveland Spears, the event’s producer and president of the Spears Group. “We are incredibly grateful to our partners in Raising Cane’s and others for sticking with us through all of the ups and downs of the last few years, allowing us to bring back this festival which will be bigger and better than ever.”
After staging the three years of the festival along the Mississippi River in Woldenberg Riverfront Park and one year at Lafayette Square, New Orleans’ other large body of water will be the vista for the fifth edition of the festival starting this year. The new location will provide festival-goers with more than one million square feet of beautiful waterfront views, spanning Lakeshore Drive from Franklin Avenue to the Seabrook Bridge.
“We couldn’t be more excited to support the return of the Fried Chicken Festival,” said Todd Graves, Raising Cane’s founder and CEO. “This festival celebrates our favorite menu item in one of our favorite cities and we are proud to continue to help it to grow. It’s going to be great having FCF back this fall!”
While the 2021 version of the event had to be called off, organizers instead reimagined the festival, turning it into a weeklong celebration as part of National Fried Chicken Festival Week last October. National Fried Chicken Week showcased some of the various restaurants and non-food vendors that were due to participate in that year’s festival, driving patrons to each of their establishments to sample the featured dishes.
Across the city and throughout that week, partnering restaurants featured off-menu items that would have been served at that year’s in-person festival.
The free outdoor festival broke its attendance record at the fourth annual event in 2019, which saw over 183,000 guests across the three days. The National Fried Chicken Festival will be the first large festival event on the Lakefront since Back to the Beach in 2005, not long before Hurricane Katrina made landfall 17 years ago.
Festival attendees can expect the return of the Best Fried Chicken Contest and Best Use of Chicken in a Dish Contest. FCF will once again honor a New Orleans culinary icon. Since its founding in 2016, the festival has been bringing food, music, family, and festivities together in celebration of the classic southern dish.
For more information, visit friedchickenfestival.com.
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Groups Host Youth and Young Adult Career Expo at Xavier
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — On Tuesday, April 12, the City of New Orleans, JOB1, the Louisiana Workforce Commission and Total Community Action will host the second Youth and Young Adult Career Expo at the Xavier University of Louisiana Convocation Center.
The “YOUth Matter” 2022 Youth & Young Adult Expo will get the future workforce (16-24 year olds) acquainted with employers and give current employers the opportunity to meet the city’s future talent pipeline. The expo will offer employment opportunities, training programs, as well as fun and interactive experiences that will ultimately improve and help our youth gain opportunities that are not always easily accessible.
JOB1 is also focused on addressing the total health and welfare of our youth demographic that has had their coming-of-age experience severely impacted by a global pandemic.
As we near the beginning of summer, The City of New Orleans and JOB1 have been intentional about engaging our city’s youth in the enriching and life-enhancing experience that is employment. According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, the youth labor force—16 to 24-year-olds—increased by 2.4 million in the summer of 2021 and 54.4% of American young adults were engaged in summer employment (USDL-21-1515).
“JOB1’s goal is to help enrich the life experiences of our youth by connecting them with resources, training providers and employers who are committed to guiding and engaging them in their endeavors, in addition to assisting with removing impediments to employment and life in general,” said Sunae Villavaso, director of the city’s Office of Workforce Development. “We have to be intentional about contributing positively to their young adult journey in light of the many adversities our youth are facing.”
Individuals, organizations, and schools can register to take part in the “YOUth Matter” Career Expo on JOB1’s website: JOB1nola.org. Parents are also encouraged to bring their children to the event.
Join JOB1 on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at the Xavier University of Louisiana Convocation Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Register at JOB1nola.org.
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Nonprofit Announces New Members of Coastal Advisory Council
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana has announced eight new members of its Coastal Advisory Council, a leadership group first formed in 2021 to involve experts in a variety of different fields in CRCL’s mission to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable Louisiana coast for all. These passionate and motivated advocates will help the state’s first nonprofit dedicated to coastal restoration as it pushes toward implementation of some of the most important projects in Louisiana history.
“One of our greatest successes at CRCL is our ability to bring seemingly disparate groups together to solve a problem that affects all of us,” said Kim Reyher, executive director at CRCL. “Our Coastal Advisory Council is a critical component of our success, and I’m excited about the new members of this group. These leaders from across Louisiana all have different areas of expertise and different backgrounds. That diversity will help us ensure that everyone has a voice in how we confront coastal land loss and climate change.”
The new members of the Coastal Advisory Council are:
- Lanor Curole, director/administrator of United Houma Nation.
- Jessica Dandridge, executive director of the Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans.
- Troy Gilbert, a writer who is the founder and executive director of Chef’s Brigade New Orleans.
- Robert Gorman, a founding member of CRCL who served as the organization’s first chair and was a longtime Board member, and who is the retired director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux.
- Barbara Johnson, founder and proprietor of the Great Delta Tours.
- Brent McCrossen, an entrepreneur who is managing director of Revelry Startup Studio and founder of linen shirt maker RNKL.
- David Muth, the retired Gulf program director at the National Wildlife Federation.
- Niki Pace, an attorney at Louisiana SeaGrant.
They join the following members retained from 2021:
- Ellen Ball, a community leader in New Orleans and on Avery Island and a former member of the CRCL Board of Directors.
- Robin Barnes, an economic recovery and resilience expert who operates Resilience Resolutions in New Orleans.
- Angela Chalk, the founder and executive director of Healthy Community Services in New Orleans.
- Mark Davis, the director of the Tulane University Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy and Tulane ByWater Institute and the former executive director of CRCL.
- Reggie Dupre, the executive director of the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District in Houma, the president of Bourg Supermarket Inc. and a former state lawmaker.
- Al Duvernay, a fisherman, retired paleontologist at Shell and former CRCL volunteer of the year.
- Tina Freeman, a photographer whose work is included in permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Paris), the National Media Museum (Bradford, UK), the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Luiciano Benetton Imago Mundi Collection in Italy.
- Albertine Kimble, who is retired after working in Plaquemines Parish government for 30 years, including as local coastal programs manager. She is a member of the parish’s Coastal Zone Advisory Board.
- Ryan Lambert, the founder of Cajun Fishing Adventures in Buras and Venice.
- Walter Leger III, a lawyer, senior vice president for strategic affairs and general counsel for New Orleans & Co. and former speaker pro tempore in the state House.
- Brett Long, a CPA who has helped found a number of startups and who has a strong interest in coastal and city issues in New Orleans.
- Steve Mathies, the coastal restoration and resilience practice leader for the Southeast region at Stantec and former director of CPRA.
- Tim Matte, a CPA and the former mayor of Morgan City.
- Norma Mattei, a UNO civil engineering professor, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the Mississippi River Commission.
- John Morello, vice president of product, container and serverless security at Palo Alto Networks, a board member for the Coastal Conservation Association and a former member and chair of the CRCL board.
- Sandy Nyugen, founder and executive director of Coastal Communities Consulting and a former consultant for the Louisiana Small Business Development Center.
- Denise Reed, a research professor at the University of New Orleans who helped develop Louisiana’s coastal master plan.
- Jennifer Sherrod-Blackwell, founder and owner of Elysian Seafood and Elysian Events Catering in New Orleans and a restaurant partner in CRCL’s Oyster Shell Recycling Program.
- Robert Thomas, director of the Center for Environmental Communication at Loyola University, the founding director of the Louisiana Nature Center and a former member of the CRCL board.
- Jim Tripp, who is retired from the Environmental Defense Fund, where he served as general counsel. He was a founding member of CRCL and is a former CRCL board member.
- Darilyn Turner, executive director of the Zion Travelers Cooperative Center and a member of the Plaquemines Parish School Board.
Members of the CAC serve a three-year term. The group’s role is strictly advisory, but its members have been vocal supporters of coastal restoration and have helped shape restoration policy.
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Tulane Study Shows COVID-19’s Lingering Impacts on the Brain
NEW ORLEANS — From Tulane University:
COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don’t fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection.
Now, researchers at Tulane University have shown in detail how COVID-19 affects the central nervous system, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.
The findings are the first comprehensive assessment of neuropathology associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a nonhuman primate model.
The research team found severe brain inflammation and injury consistent with reduced blood flow or oxygen to the brain, including neuron damage and death. They also found small bleeds in the brain.
Surprisingly, these findings were present in subjects that did not experience severe respiratory disease from the virus.
Tracy Fischer, PhD, lead investigator and associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, has studied brains for decades. Soon after the primate center launched its COVID-19 pilot program in the spring of 2020, she began studying the brain tissue of several subjects that had been infected.
Fischer’s initial findings documenting the extent of damage seen in the brain due to SARS-CoV-2 infection were so striking that she spent the next year further refining the study controls to ensure that the results were clearly attributable to the infection.
“Because the subjects didn’t experience significant respiratory symptoms, no one expected them to have the severity of disease that we found in the brain,” Fischer said. “But the findings were distinct and profound, and undeniably a result of the infection.”
The findings are also consistent with autopsy studies of people who have died of COVID-19, suggesting that nonhuman primates may serve as an appropriate model, or proxy, for how humans experience the disease.
Neurological complications are often among the first symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection and can be the most severe and persistent. They also affect people indiscriminately — all ages, with and without comorbidities, and with varying degrees of disease severity.
Fischer hopes that this and future studies that investigate how SARS-CoV-2 affects the brain will contribute to the understanding and treatment of patients suffering from the neurological consequences of COVID-19 and long COVID.
The COVID-19 pilot research program at the Tulane National Primate Research Center was supported by funds made possible by the National Institutes of Health Office of Research Infrastructure Program, Tulane University and Fast Grants.
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West set to toughen sanctions on Russia; Ukraine urges more
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Western governments prepared Wednesday to toughen sanctions against Russia and send more weapons to Ukraine, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pointedly accused the world of failing to end Moscow’s invasion of his country and what he said was a campaign of murders, rapes and wanton destruction by Russian forces.
In scarred and silent streets of ruined towns around Ukraine’s capital, investigators collected evidence documenting what appeared to be widespread killings of civilians. Specialists cleared mines from devastated towns near Kyiv that Russian troops have left, as Moscow regrouped its forces for a new assault on Ukraine’s east and south at the end of the war’s sixth week.
In Andriivka, a small village about 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of the capital, two police officers from the nearby town of Makariv came to identify a dead man, whose body was left in a field, next to tracks of a Russian tank left in the area.
Capt. Alla Pustova said officers had found 20 bodies in Makariv area in the last two days, as investigators work to understand the scale of atrocities they say retreating Russian forces committed around the capital.
Zelenskyy said that civilians had been tortured, shot in the back of the head, thrown down wells, blown up with grenades in their apartments and crushed to death by tanks while in cars. He told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one established at Nuremberg after World War II.
“There is no security,” he told the body. “So where is the peace that the United Nations was created to guarantee?”
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Ukrainian authorities have said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv, and the Ukrainian president challenged the U.N. to kick Russia off the Security Council and “do everything that we can do to establish peace.” Barring that, he told the council: “Dissolve yourself.”
Thwarted in their efforts to take the capital and forced to withdraw to Belarus or Russia to regroup, President Vladimir Putin’s forces are now pouring into Ukraine’s industrial eastern heartland of the Donbas, where the Ukraine military has said is it bracing for a new offensive.
Overnight, Russian forces attacked a fuel depot and a factory in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, just west of the Donbas, the region’s governor, Valentyn Reznichenko, said on the messaging app Telegram early Wednesday. He said the oil depot was destroyed. The number of casualties was unclear.
In the Luhansk region, which lies in the Donbas, shelling of Rubizhne on Tuesday killed one person and wounded five more, regional governor Serhiy Haidai said on Telegram.
Parts of Luhansk and the other Donbas region of Donetsk have been under control of Russia-backed rebels since 2014 and are recognized by Moscow as independent states. So far, Ukrainian forces have held back Russian troops pushing into the area but remain outnumbered in both troops and equipment, Zelenskyy said in a video address to his country late Tuesday.
Over the past few days, grisly images of civilians apparently killed by Russian forces in Bucha and other towns before they withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv have caused a global outcry. Western nations have expelled scores of Moscow’s diplomats and are expected to roll out more sanctions Wednesday amid a flurry of meetings of NATO, Group of Seven and European Union diplomats.
Measures will include a ban on all new investment in Russia, a senior U.S. administration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the upcoming announcement.
The EU’s executive branch, meanwhile, proposed a ban on coal imports from Russia, worth an estimated 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) per year. It would be the first time the 27-nation bloc has sanctioned the country’s lucrative energy industry over the war, though it may stop short of cutting off Russia’s lucrative oil and gas exports to Europe.
Zelenskyy said Western sanctions must go much further.
“After the things the world saw in Bucha, sanctions against Russia must be commensurate with the gravity of war crimes committed by the occupiers,” he said in his late-night address.
He said Western leaders would be judged harshly “if after this, Russian banks are able to function as usual; if after this, goods are able to flow into Russia as usual; if after this, European Union countries will pay Russia for energy as usual.”
Russia has insisted its troops have committed no war crimes.
Moscow’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, said “not a single local person” suffered from violence while Bucha was under Russian control. Using to a tactic Russian officials have often relied on in the face of accusations of atrocities, he said scenes of bodies in the streets were “a crude forgery” staged by the Ukrainians.
In the still largely empty streets of Bucha, dogs wandered among ruined buildings and burned military vehicles. Officials snapped photos of the corpses before gathering some of them.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes and interviewed Ukrainians who told of witnessing atrocities. Many of the dead seen by AP journalists appeared to have been shot at close range, and some had their hands bound or their flesh burned.
High-resolution satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies showed many of the bodies laid in the open for weeks while Russian forces were in the town.
The dead in Bucha included a pile of six charred bodies, as witnessed by AP journalists. It was not clear who they were or how they died. One body was probably that of a child, said Andrii Nebytov, head of police in the Kyiv region.
The AP and the PBS series “Frontline” have jointly verified at least 90 incidents during the war that appear to violate international law. The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court at The Hague opened an investigation a month ago into possible war crimes in Ukraine.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, a passerby in the besieged southern city of Mykolaiv stopped briefly to look at the bright blossoms of a shattered flower stand lying among bloodstains, the legacy of a Russian shell that killed nine people in the city’s center. The onlooker sketched the sign of the cross in the air, and moved on.
British defense officials, meanwhile, said Wednesday that 160,000 people remain trapped by Russian air strikes and heavy fighting in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, scene of some of the worst suffering of the war.
The Ministry of Defense intelligence update said the city has “no light, communication, medicine, heat or water.” It accused Russian forces of deliberately preventing humanitarian access, “likely to pressure defenders to surrender.”
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russian forces stopped buses accompanied by Red Cross workers from traveling to the city, which had a pre-war population of over 400,000. She said Russian troops allowed 1,496 civilians to leave the Sea of Azov port on Tuesday.
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Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Cara Anna in Bucha, Ukraine, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Ohio girl believed safe after reportedly abducted by stepbrother
Published: Apr. 5, 2022 at 5:38 PM EDT|Updated: 4 hours ago
(Gray News) - An Amber Alert issued for a 12-year-old girl has been canceled after authorities found her and her alleged abductor, according to local reports.
Tessa Kozelka and her 23-year-old “boyfriend” Micey Stiver were found Tuesday night in Cleveland, local news stations reported, citing authorities.
They are both in the custody of the Cleveland Police Department.
Police earlier said Stiver is also Tessa’s stepbrother.
Police say Tessa left with Stiver on Monday, April 4, at 2 a.m. The incident took place in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on State Route 82 and Deer Creek Drive in the city of North Royalton.
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2 killed in Georgia, Texas as damaging storms strike South
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Violent storms killed at least two people, one in Georgia and another in Texas, on Tuesday as hail, strong winds and tornadoes tore across the South, where authorities warned a second day of dangerous weather of violent weather could follow.
A woman died Tuesday evening in Pembroke, Georgia, where a suspected tornado ripped part of the roof from the Bryan County courthouse, destroyed the entrance to a local government building across the street and damaged homes in nearby neighborhoods, said Matthew Kent, a county government spokesman.
Kent said several others were injured in the county 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Savannah. He said the death occurred in one of the damaged neighborhoods, but had no further details.
In eastern Texas, W. M. Soloman, 71, died when storm winds toppled a tree onto Solomon’s home in Whitehouse, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Dallas, Whitehouse Mayor James Wansley said. Officials said trees fell on at least four homes there.
More than 50,000 homes and businesses were without power Tuesday night from eastern Texas to South Carolina. The outages came on a day when the National Weather Service issued a nonstop stream of tornado warnings for hours as the storm system tore across Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
In southeast Georgia, Gage Moore, 23, was driving home from work Tuesday evening on Interstate 16 in the county where Pembroke is located when his fiance called saying she heard tornado sirens. About two minutes later, Moore said, he looked up to see a towering twister looming to the left of the highway.
Moore said he pulled over and stopped his car behind an overpass, then took cellphone video of the funnel cloud churning across the interstate.
“Everybody started slamming on brakes all around me,” Moore said. “I could actually feel my truck shaking back and forth and hear the roar of it passing by.” He added: “Thankfully we all stopped and left a huge gap in the interstate where it crossed.”
Afterward, Moore continued his commute home. He said he could tell where the twister crossed the highway because of the mangled exit sign and damaged trees left behind. “Some were bent and some were broken,” Moore said, “the tops were broken out of them.”
In South Carolina, Allendale County Manager William Goodson said a tornado, captured in a video on social media, caused damage in his rural county, but exactly how much and whether there were any injuries were unknown.
“I know we have buildings damaged and power lines down,” Goodson said.
Debate also was delayed for nearly an hour in the South Carolina legislature after the state House chamber was evacuated for a tornado warning for Columbia. The legislation being debated would require athletes to compete with the gender listed on their birth certificates.
The weather service said it was sending survey teams to examine potential tornado damage in Wetumpka, Alabama. Lightning struck a flea market in the north Alabama community of Lacey’s Spring, causing a fire that gutted the building, news outlets reported.
Fallen trees and limbs closed a stretch of highway for hours in Newton County, Mississippi. As storms pushed into Georgia, a large tree fell and crashed through the roof of Marie Jordan’s home in metro Atlanta, coming down in the living room, kitchen and garage.
“It just took everything,” Jordan told WSB-TV. “For years and years, I have watched that tree.”
Elsewhere in Texas, one person was injured when the storms swept through Johnson County, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southwest of Dallas. Brittaney Deaton said she became trapped in an RV trailer behind her family’s home after the trailer flipped over. She said her stepfather got injured trying to free her.
“I was screaming on the phone. I couldn’t get out. I was terrified,” Deaton told KDFW-TV. “And I felt like I was just trapped, like it was going to roll with me in it. And I just thank God that I got out.”
The threat of damaging weather will move further north on Wednesday, forecasters said, with severe storms possible across an area stretching from western Alabama to the western tip of the Carolinas. More than 10 million people in metro areas including Atlanta; Birmingham; and Chattanooga, Tennessee, will be at risk, the Storm Prediction Center said.
Springtime often brings strong storms to the Southeast. Te region has faced a barrage of weather recently that included a tornado last month in metro New Orleans, where one person died, and storms that killed at least two people in the Florida Panhandle last week.
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