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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Chilean journalist Francisca Skoknic about the upcoming vote to approve or reject a new constitution for the South American country.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/chileans-weigh-a-new-constituation | 2022-09-03T14:26:24Z |
Before David Williams approaches his fellow Dollar General workers in New Orleans to talk about organizing, he knows the first thing they'll ask: Are you a union?
He answers with a flat no.
"Once the word union is...out of the way, that's when we all get together and come up with a plan and figure out how... to fight this," Williams said.
Dollar stores have expanded across the country and complaints about work conditions and safety have grown with them. Over the past year, workers have been organizing, protesting and striking for better workplaces — fired up by a labor movement that's led to big union victories at places like Starbucks and Amazon.
But Dollar General workers in Louisiana hope to make change without unionizing. Unions require winning elections and negotiations, which can drag on for years. The word can also be a non-starter when recruiting support, especially in places like the South — a region that's historically skeptical of unions.
Labor experts say this approach is actually healthy for the labor movement — better to have different groups with separate tactics pushing for workers' rights than relying just on collective bargaining.
"The flexibility that comes with not being a union is a really valuable tool," Mary Anne Trasciatti, the director of labor studies at Hofstra University, said.
A dollar raise isn't enough
About five years ago, Anthony Jackson was attending Southeastern Louisiana University online and found himself in a typical spot for a college student — his financial aid was running low and he needed to find a job.
He found work at a Dollar General in New Orleans, enticed by what he believed would be an easy job stocking shelves and running the cash register. But after being hired, he said he got a "rude awakening."
Beyond the bathroom and air conditioning system rarely working, he said the job was dangerous. He said one time when he tried to stop someone from shoplifting underwear the customer lifted his shirt and flashed a gun.
"I was very unhappy," Jackson said. "That's what motivated me to get my behind back in school and graduate because I saw as a young person this is not going to be a bright future."
In an emailed statement, Dollar General said it provides, "employees with the opportunity to develop and grow their careers and strive to ensure a safe, comfortable work environment."
Other low-wage jobs like McDonald's have been raising wages to around $15 an hour in response to worker demands and a tight labor market. Dollar stores have also raised wages, but Williams said the one dollar increase he received to $9.25 an hour is not enough.
"It's pretty much a slap in the face," Jackson said.
Dollar General continues to grow but faces protests
Concerns about safety, rodent infestations and low pay have followed dollar stores as they've continued growing. Dollar General predicts a net sales growth of 10.5% this year and plans to open 1,100 new stores by the end of its fiscal year.
In the face of all that growth, workers are protesting. Around 100 protesters gathered outside a Dollar General shareholder meeting in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, last May.
Most of them came with the organization Step Up Louisiana. Jackson has been training as an organizer with the group, specifically to work with dollar store workers.
Yet the group is careful to clarify that it's not a union. It has been organizing workers and supporting unions, but doesn't see unionizing as the best way to improve dollar stores.
"We're not a union," Jackson said. "I don't know if we ever will be but I do know we have momentum right now."
The labor movement is becoming more eclectic
Unions do have one big advantage over other labor groups — collective bargaining. Once unions agree to unionize, employers are required by law to negotiate with the union in good faith. However, getting to that point means winning an election, which can take years.
As long as there has been a labor movement, there have been plenty of groups pushing for workers' rights without relying on unionizing.
Some labor experts believe the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, which put legal protections around collective bargaining, led to the labor movement relying too much on unionizing.
"The labor movement is becoming more eclectic again," Cedric de Leon, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Labor Center, said.
Alternative labor groups can rely on other tactics, including petitions, pressuring politicians and protesting — like the demonstration outside Dollar General shareholder meeting.
Going to the media achieved results
They can also go directly to the media. Kenya Slaughter, a lead sales associate at a Dollar General store in Alexandria, Louisiana, did just that.
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Step-Up Louisiana helped Slaughter get in touch with the New York Times, which published an opinion piece she wrote. Slaughter called out Dollar General for not providing protective equipment, such as masks and plexiglass. Shortly after Slaughter's story was published, Dollar General sent equipment to stores.
"(I) did not need a union to get that done and it got gone expeditiously," Slaughter said. "I had all types of people calling my phone trying to see what they can do."
Slaughter is not against unions — like the Step Up Louisiana group, she supports them. But for her, a union is a tool, not an end goal.
"Ultimately, I just want what's right," Slaughter said. "I want workers making at least $15 an hour coming in."
This story was produced by the Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration among Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WBHM in Alabama and WWNO and WRKF in Louisiana and NPR.
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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/ezra-furman-on-her-latest-all-of-us-flames | 2022-09-03T14:26:36Z |
Burnout is affecting faith leaders, many of whom are choosing to leave their ministries. NPR's Scott Simon talks with former pastor Eric Atcheson about the reasons he quit a job he once loved.
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Burnout is affecting faith leaders, many of whom are choosing to leave their ministries. NPR's Scott Simon talks with former pastor Eric Atcheson about the reasons he quit a job he once loved.
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Rattlesnakes have a bad reputation in the West, seen as a deadly fiend that we'd be better off without. However, much like sharks, they rarely kill and often inspire far more fear than they deserve.
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Rattlesnakes have a bad reputation in the West, seen as a deadly fiend that we'd be better off without. However, much like sharks, they rarely kill and often inspire far more fear than they deserve.
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When NASA launches its mission to the moon, sitting in the commander's seat will be a "moonikin" — a mannequin. It's named for a NASA engineer who helped bring home Apollo 13.
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When NASA launches its mission to the moon, sitting in the commander's seat will be a "moonikin" — a mannequin. It's named for a NASA engineer who helped bring home Apollo 13.
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New COVID-19 vaccine boosters designed to combat recent subvariants of the coronavirus are being made available to people over 12 years old. We have some guidance on who should get one and when.
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New COVID-19 vaccine boosters designed to combat recent subvariants of the coronavirus are being made available to people over 12 years old. We have some guidance on who should get one and when.
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Ravil Maganov died this week. He was 67, and chairman of Lukoil, the Russian oil company. Lukoil released a statement that he "passed away following a severe illness."
Tass, the state-owned Russian news agency, says Mr. Maganov fell out of a 6th floor hospital window. They called it a suicide.
It may be pertinent to mention that shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the board of Lukoil called for the "soonest possible end" to the conflict.
Ravil Maganov is one of several Russian energy oligarchs who have died this year under murky circumstances. Their demise may remind you of previous epidemics of "accidents. Being a critic of Russia's government can be hazardous to your health.
In May of 2020, as coronavirus cases surged, two Russian doctors and a medic, according to local media, fell from hospital windows. The doctors died.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says dozens of Russian reporters have been killed since 2000, while investigating corruption. A number of them inexplicably fell from windows. Their deaths have been ruled accidents or suicides.
"These 'accidents' are no accident," Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told us. "Nor are these 'suicides' suicides. They are a tool of the state to silence critics and intimidate would-be critics."
Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, sent a series of tweets this week through his lawyers following the death Mikhail Gorbachev, who famously released Soviet political prisoners:
"The fact that today people like me find out about his death through loudspeakers in their prison cells perfectly characterizes the transformation of my country," he said.
When Mr. Gorbachev resigned as the last president of the USSR in 1991, he might have been more popular overseas than at home. But he didn't invade Ukraine and other republics when they voted to be free of the Soviet Union. He survived a failed coup attempt, and had its leaders arrested--not thrown out of windows.
"He stepped down peacefully and voluntarily," Alexi Navalny reminded us this week, "respecting the will of his constituents."
President Putin did not attend Mikhail Gorbahev's funeral.
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Tom Goldman is NPR's sports correspondent. His reports can be heard throughout NPR's news programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and on NPR.org.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/saturday-sports-serena-williams-dramatic-u-s-open | 2022-09-03T14:27:13Z |
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/survivor-tova-friedmans-new-memoir-reflects-on-life-as-the-daughter-of-auschwitz | 2022-09-03T14:27:19Z |
France is far less dependent on Russian fuel than some other European countries, but the government is still urging business to conserve energy this winter to prevent the need for rationing.
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France is far less dependent on Russian fuel than some other European countries, but the government is still urging business to conserve energy this winter to prevent the need for rationing.
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New developments emerged this week in negotiations between the U.S. and Iran over reviving the nuclear weapons agreement abandoned by the Trump administration.
Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all NPR News programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/the-latest-effort-to-revive-the-iran-nuclear-deal | 2022-09-03T14:27:32Z |
U.N. nuclear inspectors were finally able to access a nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine this week. They say the plant faces grave risks, especially from shelling.
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U.N. nuclear inspectors were finally able to access a nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine this week. They say the plant faces grave risks, especially from shelling.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with David Bowles about his new novel-in-verse for young people, "They Call Her Fregona." It's the story of eighth-graders who live along the Texas-Mexico border.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with David Bowles about his new novel-in-verse for young people, "They Call Her Fregona." It's the story of eighth-graders who live along the Texas-Mexico border.
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We look at the repercussions of President Biden's speech in Philadelphia attacking former President Trump and his rivals. Plus, why Sarah Palin lost the special election for the Alaska House seat.
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We look at the repercussions of President Biden's speech in Philadelphia attacking former President Trump and his rivals. Plus, why Sarah Palin lost the special election for the Alaska House seat.
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Fuel leak disrupts NASA’s 2nd shot at launching moon rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fueling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard.
For the second time this week, the launch team began loading nearly 1 million gallons of fuel into the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. Monday’s attempt was halted by a bad engine sensor and leaking fuel.
As the sun rose, an over-pressure alarm sounded and the tanking operation was briefly halted, but no damage occurred and the effort resumed. But minutes later, hydrogen fuel began leaking from the engine section at the bottom of the rocket. NASA halted the operation, while engineers scrambled to plug what was believed to be a gap around a seal in the supply line.
The countdown clocks continued ticking toward an afternoon liftoff; NASA had two hours Saturday to get the rocket off.
NASA wants to send the crew capsule atop the rocket around the moon, pushing it to the limit before astronauts get on the next flight. If the five-week demo with test dummies succeeds, astronauts could fly around the moon in 2024 and land on it in 2025. People last walked on the moon 50 years ago.
Forecasters expected generally favorable weather at Kennedy Space Center, especially toward the end of the two-hour afternoon launch window.
On Monday, hydrogen fuel escaped from elsewhere in the rocket. Technicians tightened up the fittings over the past week, but launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson stressed that she wouldn’t know whether everything was tight until Saturday’s fueling.
Even more of a problem on Monday, a sensor indicated one of the rocket’s four engines was too warm, but engineers later verified it actually was cold enough. The launch team planned to ignore the faulty sensor this time around and rely on other instruments to ensure each main engine was properly chilled.
Before igniting, the main engines need to be as frigid as the liquid hydrogen fuel flowing into them at minus-420 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-250 degrees Celsius). If not, the resulting damage could lead to an abrupt engine shutdown and aborted flight.
Mission managers accepted the additional risk posed by the engine issue as well as a separate problem: cracks in the rocket’s insulating foam. But they acknowledged other problems — like fuel leaks — could prompt yet another delay.
That didn’t stop thousands from jamming the coast to see the Space Launch System rocket soar. Local authorities expected massive crowds because of the long Labor Day holiday weekend.
The $4.1 billion test flight is the first step in NASA’s Artemis program of renewed lunar exploration, named after the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology.
Twelve astronauts walked on the moon during NASA’s Apollo program, the last time in 1972.
Artemis — years behind schedule and billions over budget — aims to establish a sustained human presence on the moon, with crews eventually spending weeks at a time there. It’s considered a training ground for Mars.
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Police: Plane circling Mississippi city threatens to crash
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A stolen airplane circled over north Mississippi on Saturday morning, and police said they evacuated a Walmart store after the pilot threatened to crash into it.
The Tupelo Police Department said in a Facebook post that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. The plane started circling over Tupelo, Mississippi, at about 5 a.m. It was still in the air about four hours later, but had flown away from Tupelo and was circling over another community nearby.
Police said they have made contact with the pilot directly.
“Citizens are asked to avoid that area until an all clear is given,” the police wrote. “With the mobility of an airplane of that type the danger zone is much larger than even Tupelo.”
Authorities believe the aircraft was stolen and are working to determine whether the pilot threatening to crash the plane is an employee of a local airport, two people briefed on the matter told The Associated Press. Multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, are now involved in the investigation and are working to discern a motive, the people said.
Investigators were continuing to monitor the flight’s path and have been in communication with the pilot, the people said.
Law enforcement told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal shortly after 8 a.m. that the plane had left the airspace around Tupelo and was flying near a Toyota manufacturing plant in nearby Blue Springs.
An online flight tracking service showed the plane meandering in the sky and following a looping path.
“State law enforcement and emergency managers are closely tracking this dangerous situation,” Gov. Tate Reeves wrote on Twitter. “All citizens should be on alert and aware of updates from the Tupelo Police Department.”
Leslie Criss, a magazine editor who lives in Tupelo, woke up early and was watching the situation on TV and social media. Several of her friends were outside watching the plane circle overhead.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in this town,” Criss told The Associated Press. “It’s a scary way to wake up on a Saturday morning.”
Former state Rep. Steve Holland, who is a funeral director in Tupelo, said he had received calls from families concerned about the plane.
“One called and said, ‘Oh, my God, do we need to cancel mother’s funeral?’” Holland said. “I just told them, ‘No, life’s going to go on.’”
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Tropical Storm Earl forms east of Leeward Islands
Published: Sep. 3, 2022 at 10:34 AM EDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Earl has formed east of the Northern Leeward Islands and is threatening to unleash heavy rains and gusty squalls in the region.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Earl formed late Friday and was headed west-northwest on a course expected to take it near or just north of the Northern Leeward Islands on Saturday.
Late Friday, the storm was centered about 185 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands and had top sustained winds of 40 mph.
Forecasters said some slight strengthening was possible in the next few days.
They warned of the possibility of some rapidly rising rivers in Puerto Rico and a flash flood threat.
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Ukraine’s nuclear plant goes offline amid fighting
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s and Europe’s largest nuclear plant has stopped supplying Ukrainian-held territories with electricity, Kremlin-backed authorities said Saturday, as a team of inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog continued their mission at the site.
The Russian-appointed city administration in Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia plant is located, blamed an alleged Ukrainian shelling attack on Saturday morning, which they said had destroyed a key power line.
“The provision of electricity to the territories controlled by Ukraine has been suspended due to technical difficulties,” the municipal administration said in a post on its official Telegram channel. It wasn’t clear whether electricity from the plant was still reaching Russian-held areas.
Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Kremlin-appointed regional administration said on Telegram that a shell had struck an area between two reactors. His claims could not be immediately verified.
Over the past weeks, Ukraine and Russia have traded blame over shelling at and near the plant, while also accusing each other of attempts to derail the visit from U.N. experts, who arrived at the plant Thursday. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s mission is meant to help secure the site.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian troops launched another attempt to seize the plant late Friday, despite the presence of the IAEA monitors, sending 42 boats with 250 special forces personnel and foreign “mercenaries” to attempt a landing on the bank of the nearby Kakhovka reservoir.
The ministry said that four Russian fighter jets and two helicopter gunships destroyed about 20 boats and the others turned back. It added that the Russian artillery struck the Ukrainian-controlled right bank of the Dnieper River to target the retreating landing party.
The ministry claimed that the Russian military killed 47 troops, including 10 “mercenaries” and wounded 23. The Russian claims couldn’t be independently verified.
Russia reported earlier that about 60 Ukrainian troops previously tried to land near the plant on Thursday and Russian forces thwarted that attempt.
As of Saturday morning, neither the Ukrainian government nor the country’s nuclear energy operator, Enerhoatom, had commented on these allegations.
The plant has repeatedly suffered complete disconnection from Ukraine’s power grid since last week, with Enerhoatom blaming mortar shelling and fires near the site.
Local Ukrainian authorities accused Moscow of pounding two cities that overlook the plant across the Dnieper river with rockets, also an accusation they have made repeatedly over the past weeks.
In Zorya, a small village about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Zaporizhzhia plant, residents on Friday could hear the sound of explosions in the area.
It’s not the shelling that scared them the most, but the risk of a radioactive leak in the plant.
“The power plant, yes, this is the scariest,” Natalia Stokoz, a mother of three, said. “Because the kids and adults will be affected, and it’s scary if the nuclear power plant is blown up.”
Oleksandr Pasko, a 31-year-old farmer, said “there is anxiety because we are quite close.” Pasko said that the Russian shelling has intensified in recent weeks.
During the first weeks of the war, authorities gave iodine tablets and masks to people living near the plant in case of radiation exposure.
Recently, they’ve also distributed iodine pills in Zaporizhzhia city, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the plant.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to take the role of “facilitator” on the issue of the Zaporizhzhia plant, in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency.
The Ukrainian military on Saturday morning reported that Russian forces overnight pressed their stalled advance in the country’s industrial east, while also trying to hold on to areas captured in Ukraine’s northeast and south, including in the Kherson region cited as the target of Kyiv’s recent counteroffensive.
It added that Ukrainian forces repelled around half a dozen Russian attacks across the Donetsk region, including near two cities singled out as key targets of Moscow’s grinding effort to capture the rest of the province. The Donetsk region is one of two that make up Ukraine’s industrial heartland of the Donbas, alongside Luhansk, which was overrun by Russian troops in early July.
Separately, the British military confirmed in its regular update Saturday morning that Ukrainian forces were conducting “renewed offensive operations” in the south of Ukraine, advancing along a broad front west of the Dnieper and focusing on three axes within the Russian-occupied Kherson region.
“The operation has limited immediate objectives, but Ukraine’s forces have likely achieved a degree of tactical surprise; exploiting poor logistics, administration and leadership in the Russian armed forces,” the UK Ministry of Defense said on Twitter.
Russian shelling killed an 8-year-old child and injured at least four others in a southern Ukrainian town close to the Kherson region, Ukrainian officials said.
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Kozlowska reported from London.
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Updated September 3, 2022 at 10:47 AM ET
The pilot who threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Miss., has flown away from the immediate area, local authorities said Saturday.
As of 8:35 a.m. local time, the plane was flying north of Tupelo in the "Benton, Union County Area," the Tupelo Police Department said in a statement. "Local, State and Federal Authorities are continuing to monitor this dangerous situation," police said.
Police officials said they first learned about the threat around 5 a.m. local time after the pilot had alerted emergency responders of his or her intentions. The aircraft, which police said is possibly a King Air type, was flying over the northeast region of Mississippi at the time.
"The pilot has made contact with E911 and is threatening to intentionally crash into Wal Mart on West Main," police said.
Local authorities did not share any details about the identity of the pilot or the pilot's motive, but they said that they have been speaking with the aviator directly.
Residents have been asked to avoid the area surrounding the local Walmart and Dodges' convenience store until the situation is resolved.
"With the mobility of an airplane of that type the danger zone is much larger than even Tupelo," the police department said.
A Walmart spokesperson told NPR that the store has been evacuated and closed. The Federal Aviation Administration told NPR that the agency is aware of the situation and coordinating with local law enforcement.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves wrote on Twitter that state police is also involved and closely monitoring the crisis.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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CHEYENNE – No. 2-ranked Sheridan put big-play ability on display during a 41-14 victory Friday night at Cheyenne South.
The reigning Class 4A champions got touchdowns of 75, 52 and 12 yards. They also had eight other plays of at least 13 yards.
Defending Gatorade player of the year Colson Coon got the scoring started when he took a pass from Cael Gilbertson 75-yard for a touchdown with 10 minutes, 37 seconds remaining in the first quarter.
The Broncs forced a three-and-out, and Wyatt Philipp blocked Keegan Potter’s punt on the goal line. Sheridan jumped on the ball in the end zone for a touchdown and a 14-0 lead with 9:00 left in the opening quarter.
“We were a little shell-shocked because Sheridan did exactly what it’s done for years that has earned them all those accolades and respect,” first-year South coach Eli Moody said. “They know how to win and be successful and came out fast.
“It took us a little while to figure out how to compete, but we turned it on at the end and ran out of juice in the fourth quarter. … We finished two drives and missed a field goal. This is another step forward. If we keep taking those little steps, we’ll put it together.”
Coon pushed the lead to 21-0 when he bulled over South safety Damien Pino on the goal line to finish an 8-yard touchdown run with 4:48 to play in the first.
Gilbertson took a designed run up the middle for a 1-yard touchdown for a 27-0 lead with 8:45 left in the second.
South (0-2) got its first score when Isaiah Hernandez avoided a sack, rolled to his left and found Santana Trujillo behind the defense for a 69-yard touchdown that trimmed Sheridan’s lead to 27-7.
“I had to roll out a lot and try to get a pass off or just run the ball myself,” said Hernandez, who completed 6 of 11 passes for 144 yards and two touchdowns. “The defense was coming up when they thought I was going to run, which left my receivers open.”
The Broncs got the touchdown back on the next drive. Coon threw a backward pass that bounced in front of Mathew Ketner, who snagged the ball and beat the South defense to the end zone for a 52-yard touchdown for a 34-7 halftime lead.
Ketner also had a 12-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.
South’s final score came with 5:44 remaining in the contest. Hernandez looked like he was going to scramble for a gain on third-and-goal from the 8, but he pulled up at the line of scrimmage and drilled Demetri Gillespie in the end zone for a touchdown.
The fact both of Hernandez’s touchdown tosses and a 39-yard strike to Robert Poutney came with the senior quarterback on the move wasn’t lost on Moody.
“He’s an athlete, and we kind of learned that outside the pocket might be his strength,” the coach said. “He’s big, he’s tall, he’s athletic, has an arm and reads the field well. He’s out there making plays and showing us what he’s got.”
The Broncs (2-0) converted five of seven third downs in the first three quarters. They also kept a scoring drive alive with an 8-yard run on fourth-and-two in the second quarter.
While the inability to stop drives hurt the Bison, senior linebacker Robert Campbell said Sheridan biggest advantage Friday was an intangible.
“They have consistency in everything they do, and that’s made them the best program in the state,” Campbell said. “They have the kind of consistency we need if we’re going to start winning games. We’ve never had consistency before, but we’re building it up and getting there.”
Santana Trujillo grabbed two passes for 78 yards for South. Gilbertson went 9 for 12 passing for 186 yards for Sheridan. Coon rushed for 83 yards on the night.
SHERIDAN 41, SOUTH 14
Sheridan…… 21 13 7 0 – 41
Cheyenne South…… 0 7 0 7 – 14
SCORING SUMMARY
First Quarter
S: C. Coon 75 pass from C. Gilbertson (C. Coon kick), 10:37.
S: Blocked punt recovery (C. Coon kick), 9:00.
S: C. Coon 8 run (C. Coon kick), 4:48.
Second Quarter
S: C. Gilbertson 1 run (C. Coon kick failed), 8:45.
CS: S. Trujillo 69 pass from Hernandez (Potter kick), 6:12.
S: Ketner 52 run (C. Coon kick), 1:21.
Third Quarter
S: Ketner 12 run (C. Coon kick), 6:16.
Fourth Quarter
CS: Gillespie 8 pass from Hernandez (Potter kick), 5:44.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing
Sheridan: Ketner 4-65, C. Gilbertson 4-18, D. Steel 1-13, C. Coon 12-83, Grooms 8-72, Custis 2-(minus-5), Metcalf 1-2, Davidson 3-(minus-11), Crow 3-19. Cheyenne South: J. Trujillo 7-31, Rivera 1-0, Hernandez 15-(minus-26), Poutney 1-(minus-10), S. Trujillo 1-2, Gillespie 1-(minus-3).
Passing
Sheridan: C. Gilbertson 9-12-0 186; Davidson 0-2-0 0. Cheyenne South: Hernandez 6-11-0 144.
Receiving
Sheridan: Ketner 1-18, D. Steel 3-43, C. Coon 1-75, Berrettini 3-51, Willson 1-(minus-1). Cheyenne South: T. Weber 1-3, Hartshorn 1-12, S. Trujillo 2-78, Poutney 1-34, Gillespie 1-8.
Jeremiah Johnke is the WyoSports editor. He can be reached at jjohnke@wyosports.net or 307-633-3137. Follow him on Twitter at @jjohnke. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_south/no-2-sheridans-big-plays-too-much-for-south/article_bde816c2-2b34-11ed-870e-bbbdc314063f.html | 2022-09-03T15:35:00Z |
Tropical Storm Earl forms east of Leeward Islands
Published: Sep. 3, 2022 at 10:34 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Earl has formed east of the Northern Leeward Islands and is threatening to unleash heavy rains and gusty squalls in the region.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Earl formed late Friday and was headed west-northwest on a course expected to take it near or just north of the Northern Leeward Islands on Saturday.
Late Friday, the storm was centered about 185 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands and had top sustained winds of 40 mph.
Forecasters said some slight strengthening was possible in the next few days.
They warned of the possibility of some rapidly rising rivers in Puerto Rico and a flash flood threat.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Chilean journalist Francisca Skoknic about the upcoming vote to approve or reject a new constitution for the South American country.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-03/chileans-weigh-a-new-constitution | 2022-09-03T16:25:51Z |
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week concludes our week-long celebration of some of our favorite music interviews from the Fresh Air archives:
Fresh Air's summer music interviews: James Brown: Brown is known as the Godfather of Soul and the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, among other titles. He spoke to Terry Gross in 2005 about his life in music.
'Three Thousand Years of Longing' will leave you charmed — and a little worn out: Tilda Swinton plays a literary scholar who has an encounter with a wish-granting genie, played by Idris Elba, in this flashy and ornate new fantasy film.
Fresh Air's summer music interviews: Songwriter Ellie Greenwich: Greenwich, who died in 2009, co-wrote some of the most popular songs of the early 1960s for the girl groups produced by Phil Spector. Her credits include "Leader of the Pack" and "River Deep, Mountain High." Originally broadcast in 1994.
You can listen to the interviews and review here:
'Three Thousand Years of Longing' will leave you charmed — and a little worn out
Songwriter, 'Pack' Leader Ellie Greenwich
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-03/fresh-air-weekend-james-brown-songwriter-ellie-greenwich | 2022-09-03T16:25:57Z |
Updated September 3, 2022 at 11:57 AM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the second time this week, Artemis will not fly.
NASA scrapped another planned launch of the rocket late Saturday morning after several unsuccessful attempts to stop a leak of liquid hydrogen fuel.
The official scrub announcement from Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson came around 11:19 a.m. ET.
The #Artemis I mission to the Moon has been postponed. Teams attempted to fix an issue related to a leak in the hardware transferring fuel into the rocket, but were unsuccessful. Join NASA leaders later today for a news conference. Check for updates: https://t.co/6LVDrA1toy pic.twitter.com/LgXnjCy40u
— NASA (@NASA) September 3, 2022
NASA's first effort to launch this rocket had to be scuttled on Monday morning after a sensor indicated that one of the rocket's four engines didn't seem to be cooling down to the proper temperature of approximately minus-420 degrees Fahrenheit.
After studying the problem and troubleshooting, officials said it's clear the engine was actually fine and a sensor was giving a false temperature reading. "We know we had a bad sensor," said John Honeycutt, program manager for this rocket at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Then on Saturday, as crews worked to fuel up the rocket, they repeatedly detected a liquid hydrogen leak that caused them to stop and start the fueling process several times.
NASA made three unsuccessful attempts to repair the leak before falling so far behind schedule that Blackwell-Thompson ultimately waived off the launch.
It wasn't the first time hydrogen leaks have bedeviled efforts to fuel this rocket. Similar ones appeared during dress rehearsals and the first try at launch. NASA officials are now studying the problem and discussing next steps.
It's been almost 50 years since the space agency last launched a vehicle designed to carry people to the moon. NASA has named its new moon program Artemis, after the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo, and has vowed to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface.
No astronauts will be on board the Artemis rocket during its long-anticipated first mission, but this flight will be a critical test of how NASA's new vehicle will perform in space and during the fiery return to Earth.
The weather forecast for this launch window seemed favorable, with a 60% chance that conditions will be right for liftoff. "Basically, the weather looks good," said weather officer Melody Lovin with Space Launch Delta 45. "I don't expect weather to be a show stopper."
Once this rocket successfully lifts off, it will send a crew capsule called Orion on a journey to orbit the moon, coming within about 60 miles of the lunar surface. After more than five weeks, it will return home and splash down in the Pacific Ocean.
The next flight of this rocket will carry people, but it isn't scheduled until 2024. The agency is targeting a 2025 moon landing — although most space watchers expect delays, as this rocket is already years behind its original schedule. Congress had wanted it to fly in 2016, just five years after NASA retired its aging fleet of space shuttles.
Critics say the Artemis program will be too expensive to be sustainable if NASA depends on this rocket and capsule, which come with a hefty price tag. NASA's inspector general has said that each of the first few flights will cost more than $4 billion, and that doesn't include billions of dollars in development costs.
Meanwhile, the private company SpaceX, which currently ferries astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, is developing its own megarocket and space vehicle called Starship. This rocket is expected to have its first flight soon and is designed to be both reusable and inexpensive. NASA has already said it will rely on SpaceX to develop Starship as a lunar lander, to get its astronauts from lunar orbit down to the surface.
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Updated September 3, 2022 at 12:11 PM ET
The pilot who threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Miss., has landed safely, local authorities said Saturday.
"Thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured," Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves wrote on Twitter.
The plane landed in a field northwest of the city. The pilot has been taken into police custody, the Associated Press reports, citing a Benton County sheriff's official.
Police officials said they first learned about the threat around 5 a.m. local time after the pilot had alerted emergency responders of his or her intentions. The aircraft, which police said is possibly a King Air type, was flying over the northeast region of Mississippi at the time.
"The pilot has made contact with E911 and is threatening to intentionally crash into Wal Mart on West Main," police said.
Residents were asked to avoid the area surrounding the local Walmart and Dodges' convenience store until the situation is resolved.
A Walmart spokesperson told NPR that the store was evacuated and closed.
Local authorities did not share any details about the identity of the pilot or the pilot's motive, but they said that they had been speaking with the aviator directly.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Several shovels plunged into the ground at the Fort Union Industrial Park northeast of Gillette for a groundbreaking ceremony for a coal byproduct demonstration facility. The objective is to find new uses for coal, which has increasingly been challenged by greener and renewable energy sources in previous years.
“One thing that's different about Wyoming coal, a lot of people realize it's got a lot of carbon in it, that also has a lot of oxygen, hydrogen,” said David Bell, a retired chemical engineering professor at the University of Wyoming. “And that makes for some interesting chemical properties that we can exploit and turn that interesting chemistry into valuable products.”
When completed, the facility is slated to decompose coal and separate beneficial liquids and solids that can be used to create non-energy products.
The challenge has been how to make these non-energy products, such as asphalt, bricks, construction materials, and agricultural soil amendments, commercially viable and not just a theoretical or small-scale endeavor.
Bell has worked on the project since it first launched in 2016. Since then, the Fort Union Industrial Park has established itself as a center for innovation. In June, the Wyoming Innovation Center was dedicated. It’s also involved in finding alternative uses for one Campbell County’s, and the state’s most abundant natural resources.
“A lot of the early work was disappointing because the economics were not favorable,” he explained. “And so, we had to kind of think outside the box and try to find a way that you could use coal without burning and still make money, because a lot of the processing could be very expensive.”
The large-scale profitability for coal-based products has yet to be fully seen. But there’s hope that it can become a reality in both the short and long-term.
“I think we're getting close to commercial by, I mean, within maybe five [to] 10 years of commercial viability, hopefully shorter,” he said. “But these things often take time.”
The to-be constructed facility will showcase the advances in coal products technology.
In addition to construction and building materials, Bell indicated that there’s also an opportunity for the manufacture of electronics components.
“Atlas Carbon owns the site where the facility will be constructed. But instead of building something from the ground up, it’s set to come with only some assembly required.
“Atlas Carbon has a plant out in Manti, Utah, and that plan has been leased by the university [of Wyoming],” said Raymond Ang, a Project Engineer with Wood, a UK-based engineering and consulting business. “We'll be dismantling and bringing that unit over here in Gillette to be reconstructed.”
The finished structure will be approximately three stories tall and will be involved with processing the coal so that it can be used in the manufacture of products.
“It's a unit where we will probably making sure that the coal gets dried into the product it needs to,” Ang added. “So, we want to make sure that is one that pretty much will be able to dry call as needed.”
Polaris Asset Corporation, in addition to Wood, Atlas Carbon, and the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources are active stakeholders in the project. The Wyoming Legislature has also shown its desire for the project to succeed. Despite some of the hurdles and naysayers, what’s happening in rural Campbell County is unique.
“There's nobody really doing quite what we're doing,” Bell said. “The most similar work that was done was for synthetic fuels work and the real twist is we started to realize how we could make some of these more valuable non-fuel products. And that's really what sets us apart from everybody else.” | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-resources-energy/2022-09-03/a-coal-byproducts-faculty-that-will-use-coal-for-non-energy-uses-breaks-ground-in-campbell-county | 2022-09-03T16:26:16Z |
17 states weigh adopting California’s electric car mandate
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state’s strictest-in-the nation new rules that require all new cars, pickups and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen-powered by 2035.
Under the Clean Air Act, states must abide by the federal government’s standard vehicle emissions standards unless they at least partially opt to follow California’s stricter requirements.
Among them, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Vermont are expected to adopt California’s ban on new gasoline-fueled vehicles. Colorado and Pennsylvania are among the states that probably won’t. The legal ground is a bit murkier in Minnesota, where the state’s “Clean Cars” rule has been a political minefield and the subject of a legal fight. Meanwhile, Republicans are rebelling in Virginia.
The Minnesota Auto Dealers Association says its reading of state and federal law is that the new California rules kick in automatically in the state, and it’s making that case in court as it tries to block them.
“The technology is such that the vehicles just don’t perform that well in cold weather,” said Scott Lambert, the trade group’s president. “We don’t all live in southern California.”
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency officials say the state would have to launch an entirely new rulemaking process to adopt California’s changes. And in court filings and legislative hearings, they’ve said they are not planning to do that now.
“We are not California. Minnesota has its own plan,” Gov. Tim Walz said in a statement. He called Minnesota’s program “a smart way to increase, rather than decrease, options for consumers. Our priority is to lower costs and increase choices so Minnesotans can drive whatever vehicle suits them.”
Oregon regulators are taking public comments through Sept. 7 on whether to adopt the new California standards. Colorado regulators, who adopted California’s older rules, won’t follow California’s new ones, the administration of Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said.
“While the governor shares the goal of rapidly moving towards electric vehicles, he is skeptical about requiring 100% of cars sold to be electric by a certain date as technology is rapidly changing,” the Colorado Energy Office said in a statement.
Regulators in Pennsylvania, which only partially adopted California’s older standards, said they won’t automatically follow its new rules. Under Democratic Governor Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania started the regulatory process last year to fully conform with California’s rules, but abandoned it.
Virginia had been on a path to adopting California’s rules under legislation that passed last year when Democrats were in full control of Virginia’s government. But Republicans who control the House of Delegates and GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin say they’ll push to unlink their state.
Minnesota’s auto dealers are trying to make their state’s current rules — and the possibility that they could tighten to incorporate California’s new restrictions — an issue for the fall elections. Control of the Legislature and governor’s office are up for grabs, and the dealers hope to persuade the 2023 Legislature to roll back the regulations unless they win in court first, Lambert said.
The MPCA, with Walz’s support, adopted California’s existing standards through administrative rulemaking last year amid a bitter fight with Republican lawmakers who were upset that the Legislature was cut out of the decision. Legislators even tried unsuccessfully to withhold funding from Minnesota’s environmental agencies. One casualty was Laura Bishop, who resigned as MPCA commissioner after it became apparent that she lacked the votes in the GOP-controlled Senate to win confirmation.
Walz and his administration have framed Minnesota’s Clean Cars rule as a fairly painless way to increase the availability of electric vehicles and help the state meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals. The rule seeks to increase the offerings of battery-powered and hybrid vehicles starting with the 2025 model year by requiring manufacturers to comply with California standards currently in force for low- and zero-emission vehicles.
Lambert said the state’s auto dealers don’t oppose electric vehicles. They currently make up 2.3% of new vehicle sales in Minnesota and he expects consumer interest to continue to grow. But the reduced range of battery-powered vehicles in cold weather makes them less attractive in northern tier states, he said. Minnesota’s rules already threaten to saddle dealers with more electric vehicles than their customers will buy, he said, and adopting the California ban would make things worse.
Under federal law, by Lambert’s reading, states have to either adopt California’s rules in full or follow less stringent federal emission standards. He said they can’t pick and choose from parts of each. And that effectively means there’s a “ban on the books” in Minnesota for sales of new conventionally fueled vehicles starting with the 2035 model year, he said.
Lambert’s association was already fighting Minnesota’s existing Clean Car rules in the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and its petition foresaw that California would make the changes it announced late last month. A key issue in whether “any future amendments to the incorporated California regulations automatically become part of Minnesota rules,” as the dealers argue.
The MPCA’s attorneys assert that they don’t, and have asked the court to dismiss the challenge. MPCA Commissioner Katrina Kessler has made similar arguments for months, including before a skeptical state Senate committee last March.
Aaron Klemz, chief strategy officer for the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, which will be filing its own arguments against the dealers in court, acknowledged that the legal landscape is confusing. And he said it’s not clear whether his group will eventually call for Minnesota to follow California’s new ban.
“We haven’t done enough analysis of the California rule to know if we’re going to push for its adoption in Minnesota,” Klemz said. He noted that other issues are coming into play, including incentives for electric vehicles in the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden recently signed, and the stated intentions by some of the major automakers to go all-electric.
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Associated Press reporters Jim Anderson in Denver; Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon; and Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this story.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/03/17-states-weigh-adopting-californias-electric-car-mandate/ | 2022-09-03T16:27:57Z |
17 states weigh adopting California’s electric car mandate
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state’s strictest-in-the nation new rules that require all new cars, pickups and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen-powered by 2035.
Under the Clean Air Act, states must abide by the federal government’s standard vehicle emissions standards unless they at least partially opt to follow California’s stricter requirements.
Among them, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Vermont are expected to adopt California’s ban on new gasoline-fueled vehicles. Colorado and Pennsylvania are among the states that probably won’t. The legal ground is a bit murkier in Minnesota, where the state’s “Clean Cars” rule has been a political minefield and the subject of a legal fight. Meanwhile, Republicans are rebelling in Virginia.
The Minnesota Auto Dealers Association says its reading of state and federal law is that the new California rules kick in automatically in the state, and it’s making that case in court as it tries to block them.
“The technology is such that the vehicles just don’t perform that well in cold weather,” said Scott Lambert, the trade group’s president. “We don’t all live in southern California.”
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency officials say the state would have to launch an entirely new rulemaking process to adopt California’s changes. And in court filings and legislative hearings, they’ve said they are not planning to do that now.
“We are not California. Minnesota has its own plan,” Gov. Tim Walz said in a statement. He called Minnesota’s program “a smart way to increase, rather than decrease, options for consumers. Our priority is to lower costs and increase choices so Minnesotans can drive whatever vehicle suits them.”
Oregon regulators are taking public comments through Sept. 7 on whether to adopt the new California standards. Colorado regulators, who adopted California’s older rules, won’t follow California’s new ones, the administration of Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said.
“While the governor shares the goal of rapidly moving towards electric vehicles, he is skeptical about requiring 100% of cars sold to be electric by a certain date as technology is rapidly changing,” the Colorado Energy Office said in a statement.
Regulators in Pennsylvania, which only partially adopted California’s older standards, said they won’t automatically follow its new rules. Under Democratic Governor Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania started the regulatory process last year to fully conform with California’s rules, but abandoned it.
Virginia had been on a path to adopting California’s rules under legislation that passed last year when Democrats were in full control of Virginia’s government. But Republicans who control the House of Delegates and GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin say they’ll push to unlink their state.
Minnesota’s auto dealers are trying to make their state’s current rules — and the possibility that they could tighten to incorporate California’s new restrictions — an issue for the fall elections. Control of the Legislature and governor’s office are up for grabs, and the dealers hope to persuade the 2023 Legislature to roll back the regulations unless they win in court first, Lambert said.
The MPCA, with Walz’s support, adopted California’s existing standards through administrative rulemaking last year amid a bitter fight with Republican lawmakers who were upset that the Legislature was cut out of the decision. Legislators even tried unsuccessfully to withhold funding from Minnesota’s environmental agencies. One casualty was Laura Bishop, who resigned as MPCA commissioner after it became apparent that she lacked the votes in the GOP-controlled Senate to win confirmation.
Walz and his administration have framed Minnesota’s Clean Cars rule as a fairly painless way to increase the availability of electric vehicles and help the state meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals. The rule seeks to increase the offerings of battery-powered and hybrid vehicles starting with the 2025 model year by requiring manufacturers to comply with California standards currently in force for low- and zero-emission vehicles.
Lambert said the state’s auto dealers don’t oppose electric vehicles. They currently make up 2.3% of new vehicle sales in Minnesota and he expects consumer interest to continue to grow. But the reduced range of battery-powered vehicles in cold weather makes them less attractive in northern tier states, he said. Minnesota’s rules already threaten to saddle dealers with more electric vehicles than their customers will buy, he said, and adopting the California ban would make things worse.
Under federal law, by Lambert’s reading, states have to either adopt California’s rules in full or follow less stringent federal emission standards. He said they can’t pick and choose from parts of each. And that effectively means there’s a “ban on the books” in Minnesota for sales of new conventionally fueled vehicles starting with the 2035 model year, he said.
Lambert’s association was already fighting Minnesota’s existing Clean Car rules in the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and its petition foresaw that California would make the changes it announced late last month. A key issue in whether “any future amendments to the incorporated California regulations automatically become part of Minnesota rules,” as the dealers argue.
The MPCA’s attorneys assert that they don’t, and have asked the court to dismiss the challenge. MPCA Commissioner Katrina Kessler has made similar arguments for months, including before a skeptical state Senate committee last March.
Aaron Klemz, chief strategy officer for the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, which will be filing its own arguments against the dealers in court, acknowledged that the legal landscape is confusing. And he said it’s not clear whether his group will eventually call for Minnesota to follow California’s new ban.
“We haven’t done enough analysis of the California rule to know if we’re going to push for its adoption in Minnesota,” Klemz said. He noted that other issues are coming into play, including incentives for electric vehicles in the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden recently signed, and the stated intentions by some of the major automakers to go all-electric.
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Associated Press reporters Jim Anderson in Denver; Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon; and Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this story.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wvva.com/2022/09/03/17-states-weigh-adopting-californias-electric-car-mandate/ | 2022-09-03T16:47:35Z |
On “National Cinema Day,” movie tickets are just $3
NEW YORK (AP) — “National Cinema Day” on Saturday brought the big screen to moviegoers for a small price — no more than $3 — as American theaters looked to fill seats during the late summer lull.
The one-day nationwide promotion was being offered on more than 30,000 screens in more than 3,000 theaters, including the major chains of AMC and Regal Cinemas. The Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, announced the plan Aug. 28 and said all major film studios also were participating.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters.
National Cinema Day is intended to flood theaters with moviegoers and prompt them to return in the fall, inspired by a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros.
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Minions: Rise of Gru,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore.
But that trails 2019 totals by about 20% as exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in confirming recent discussions of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in an Aug. 28 statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Chilean journalist Francisca Skoknic about the upcoming vote to approve or reject a new constitution for the South American country.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/chileans-weigh-a-new-constitution | 2022-09-03T16:59:58Z |
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week concludes our week-long celebration of some of our favorite music interviews from the Fresh Air archives:
Fresh Air's summer music interviews: James Brown: Brown is known as the Godfather of Soul and the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, among other titles. He spoke to Terry Gross in 2005 about his life in music.
'Three Thousand Years of Longing' will leave you charmed — and a little worn out: Tilda Swinton plays a literary scholar who has an encounter with a wish-granting genie, played by Idris Elba, in this flashy and ornate new fantasy film.
Fresh Air's summer music interviews: Songwriter Ellie Greenwich: Greenwich, who died in 2009, co-wrote some of the most popular songs of the early 1960s for the girl groups produced by Phil Spector. Her credits include "Leader of the Pack" and "River Deep, Mountain High." Originally broadcast in 1994.
You can listen to the interviews and review here:
'Three Thousand Years of Longing' will leave you charmed — and a little worn out
Songwriter, 'Pack' Leader Ellie Greenwich
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On “National Cinema Day,” movie tickets are just $3
NEW YORK (AP) — “National Cinema Day” on Saturday brought the big screen to moviegoers for a small price — no more than $3 — as American theaters looked to fill seats during the late summer lull.
The one-day nationwide promotion was being offered on more than 30,000 screens in more than 3,000 theaters, including the major chains of AMC and Regal Cinemas. The Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, announced the plan Aug. 28 and said all major film studios also were participating.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters.
National Cinema Day is intended to flood theaters with moviegoers and prompt them to return in the fall, inspired by a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros.
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Minions: Rise of Gru,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore.
But that trails 2019 totals by about 20% as exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in confirming recent discussions of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in an Aug. 28 statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
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Young Aylee, 7, and Nash Taylor, 4, give War Paint a few pets while tailgating before Saturday's University of Wyoming football home opener against Tulsa at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. Looking on are dad, Josh Taylor, and War Paint's handler, Lane Romsa. War Paint, age 4 1/2, leads the Cobowy onto the field before each home game.
Josh Taylor and 4-year-old son Nash play a game of UW Cowboys cornhole while tailgating in the hours leading up to Saturday's University of Wyoming home football opener at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.
By10:30 a.m. with three hours still to go before kickoff, this group of Wyoming Cowboys football fans — aka "Beer Team" — were already well-lubricated.
Young Aylee, 7, and Nash Taylor, 4, give War Paint a few pets while tailgating before Saturday's University of Wyoming football home opener against Tulsa at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. Looking on are dad, Josh Taylor, and War Paint's handler, Lane Romsa. War Paint, age 4 1/2, leads the Cobowy onto the field before each home game.
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Josh Taylor and 4-year-old son Nash play a game of UW Cowboys cornhole while tailgating in the hours leading up to Saturday's University of Wyoming home football opener at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.
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By10:30 a.m. with three hours still to go before kickoff, this group of Wyoming Cowboys football fans — aka "Beer Team" — were already well-lubricated.
It may have been the first home game of the year, but University of Wyoming Cowboys football fans were in midseason form tailgating along 22nd Street, aka Tailgate Alley, before Saturday's opener against Tulsa at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/local_news/game-day-in-laramie/article_e2866178-2bac-11ed-92cc-8f632065abd0.html | 2022-09-03T17:56:10Z |
High school football player dies after suffering head injury, family says
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - A high school student in Texas has died after sustaining a severe head injury during a junior varsity football game.
KCBD reports that sophomore Yahir Cancino was injured during Thursday’s game when the Dalhart Golden Wolves were taking on the Sundown Roughnecks.
Officials stated the Dalhart High School student lost consciousness during the game. When medical staff could not revive him, he was airlifted to a hospital and placed in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Yahir’s family started a GoFundMe account, asking for assistance through prayer and donations.
“I believe in the power of prayers. I believe in miracles. We continue to ask for your prayers. Thank you all for those who have prayed over us,” the organizer wrote.
On Saturday, Yahir’s mother shared on social media that her son had succumbed to his injuries.
“We ask for prayers for peace and healing not only for us but for all the people Yahir touched in his life,” Yahir’s mother wrote in the post. “We have chosen to donate his organs because Yahir was always about helping people and we want to honor his memory.”
After Thursday’s game, Sundown expressed their support for Yahir and his family.
“Yahir Cancino, a Dalhart JV football player, was sent to the hospital during the game and needs prayers, love and support. The community of Sundown lifts up our neighbors from Dalhart at this time,” the social media post stated.
Friday’s game between the two schools was also canceled.
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Texans to host Uvalde high school team at season opener
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans will host the Uvalde high school football team and wear “Uvalde Strong” decals on their helmets when they open the season Sept. 11 against Indianapolis.
A contingent from the team, including coach Lovie Smith and linebackers Christian Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill, visited Uvalde on Thursday night and surprised the team with new uniforms provided by Nike during a team dinner.
“It was just special to see the smiles on their faces because we know this city was impacted drastically,” Kirksey said in a television interview. “Being a leader and not just being a football player but being somebody that can be an extra shoulder to lean on, it definitely warmed something in my heart... (and) we’re just going to be here with the city and let them know that we support them in every way and we’re going to be here for them.”
This is part of the team’s continuing support for the community. The Texans donated $400,000 to the Robb Elementary School memorial fund after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting there in May.
During the visit, the Texans also announced that they were joining with grocery store chain H-E-B to pay for the high school team to travel to the opener and take in the NFL game from a suite.
Kirksey and Grugier-Hill showed the team the decal on a Texans helmet during an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“You guys will be with us, and we’ll be with you,” Grugier-Hill told them while holding the helmet. “Words can’t even describe or help anything you’ve been through, so we can only try to empathize (with) you guys and be there for you guys.”
The visit continued Friday when team owners Cal and Hannah McNair joined members of the organization in town and the team hosted football camps and clinics for hundreds of children before attending Uvalde’s home opener.
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A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
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A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
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A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
A small plane that circled for hours Saturday morning over Tupelo, Mississppi, and surrounding areas landed in a field in Ripley, Mississippi, the FAA said. A source told CNN the pilot, who police said threatened to crash the stolen plane into a Tupelo Walmart, is in custody.
"Thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured," Gov. Tate Reeves said in a tweet. "Thank you most of all to local, state, and federal law enforcement who managed this situation with extreme professionalism."
Tupelo police were notified at 5 a.m. local time, when the pilot made contact with 911, issuing the threat, Tupelo Police said.
"With the mobility of an airplane of that type the danger zone is much larger than even Tupelo," police said in a news release earlier Saturday morning.
The plane is a twin-engine, Beechcraft C90A turboprop, according to FAA records that match a registration number confirmed to CNN by the source familiar with the situation. The plane was stolen, the source said.
About 8:30 a.m. local time, the plane was north of Tupelo, police said in an earlier update.
A government source familiar with the situation told CNN the aircraft was later flying over the Holly Springs National Forest.
The Tupelo Walmart store is "currently closed and evacuated," Charles Crowson, director of the Walmart Press Office, tells CNN.
"We're working closely with local investigators and are referring questions to law enforcement," he added.
The Federal Aviation Administration "is aware and is coordinating with local law enforcement," the agency says in an email to CNN Saturday morning.
The FBI field office in Jackson, Mississippi, is involved in the incident response, a spokesperson said.
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PUKALANI, Maui (KITV4) - According to the National Weather Service in Honoluu, light to moderate trades are expected today, allowing localized sea breezes to develop in the more sheltered leeward areas.
An area of enhanced moisture will move from east to west through the islands today into early Sunday, bringing showery conditions to many windward areas at times, and sending some showers into leeward communities as well.
Drier conditions and moderate trades will return on Sunday and hold through Sunday night.
Another round of increased showers appears to move from east to west through the islands Labor Day through early Tuesday, with drier more typical trade wind weather then returning Tuesday afternoon through late next week.
Temperatures will climb into the upper 80's and low 90's today. It could get hot and humid in some spots.
Winds are expected out of the east from 10-15 mph.
SURF - According to the NWS Honolulu office, surf along south facing shores will remain small through next week with mainly reinforcing shots of south and south-southwest background level swells moving through. The next small source will arrive tonight into Sunday out of the south, that will lead to an upward trend that should hold through Monday before easing. For the extended, a decent south-southwest swell could arrive locally next weekend (around the 10th), depending on how the source evolves as it passes south of the Tasman Sea and New Zealand this weekend.
Surf along north facing shores will remain small through next week.
Surf along east facing shores will remain well below the seasonal average into next week.
North: 1-3'
West: 1-3'
South: 2-4'
East: 1-3'
No weather alerts are posted at this time.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Weekend Meteorologist and Maui County correspondent
Malika has been at KITV since July 2020. She graduated from the University of Hawaii and attended Mississippi State University for her certification in Broadcast Meteorology. Malika started her career in the Hawaii news industry in 2007. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/labor-day-weekend-weather-forecast-enhanced-showers-winds-pick-up-sunday/article_61bc88fa-2b99-11ed-bb26-13190345bc12.html | 2022-09-03T18:34:51Z |
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on August 30 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis I launch was scrubbed earlier this week after an issue was found on one of the rocket's four engines.
NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) with the Orion crew capsule perched on top, stands on launch complex 39B as it is prepared for launch for the Artemis 1 mission at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 3
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on August 30 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis I launch was scrubbed earlier this week after an issue was found on one of the rocket's four engines.
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NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) with the Orion crew capsule perched on top, stands on launch complex 39B as it is prepared for launch for the Artemis 1 mission at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 3
NASA has once again waved off an attempt to launch its massive new moon rocket on an uncrewed test mission because of technical issues. The scrub was called at 11:17 a.m. ET, three hours before the beginning of the launch window.
Artemis I had been slated to take off Saturday afternoon, but those plans were scrubbed after team members discovered a liquid hydrogen leak that they spent the better part of the morning trying to resolve. Liquid hydrogen is one of the propellants used in the rocket's large core stage. The leak prevented the launch team from being able to fill the liquid hydrogen tank despite trying various troubleshooting procedures.
It's the second time in a week that the space agency has been forced to halt the launch countdown in the face of technical issues. The first launch attempt, on Monday, was called off after several issues arose, including with a system meant to cool the rocket's engines ahead of liftoff and various leaks that sprung up as the rocket was being fueled.
The liquid hydrogen leak was detected Saturday at 7:15 a.m. ET in the quick disconnect cavity that feeds the rocket with hydrogen in the engine section of the core stage. It was a different leak than one that occurred ahead of the scrubbed launch on Monday.
The launch controllers warmed up the line in an attempt to get a tight seal and the flow of liquid hydrogen resumed before a leak reoccurred. They stopped the flow of liquid hydrogen and proceeded to "close the valve used to fill and drain it, then increase pressure on a ground transfer line using helium to try to reseal it," according to NASA.
That troubleshooting plan was not successful. The team attempted the first plan again to warm up the line, but the leak reoccurred after they manually restarted the flow of liquid hydrogen.
There was a 60% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch, according to weather officer Melody Lovin.
The Artemis I stack, which includes the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, continues to sit on Launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Artemis I mission is just the beginning of a program that will aim to return humans to the moon and eventually land crewed missions on Mars.
There is still a backup opportunity for the Artemis I mission to launch on September 5 and 6.
In the last few days, the launch team has taken time to address issues, like hydrogen leaks, that cropped up ahead of Monday's planned launch before it was scrubbed. The team has also completed a risk assessment of an engine conditioning issue and a foam crack that also cropped up, according to NASA officials.
Both were considered to be acceptable risks heading into the launch countdown, according to Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager.
On Monday, a sensor on one of the rocket's four RS-25 engines, identified as engine #3, reflected that the engine could not reach the proper temperature range required for the engine to start at liftoff.
The engines need to be thermally conditioned before super-cold propellant flows through them prior to liftoff. To prevent the engines from experiencing any temperature shocks, launch controllers gradually increase the pressure of the core stage liquid hydrogen tank in the hours before launch to send a small amount of liquid hydrogen to the engines. This is known as a "bleed."
The team has since determined it was a bad sensor providing the reading -- they plan to ignore the faulty sensor moving forward, according to John Blevins, Space Launch Systems chief engineer.
Mission overview
Once Artemis I launches, Orion's journey will last 37 days as it travels to the moon, loops around it and returns to Earth -- traveling a total of 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers).
While the passenger list doesn't include any humans, it does have passengers: three mannequins and a plush Snoopy toy will ride in Orion.
The crew aboard Artemis I may sound a little unusual, but they each serve a purpose. Snoopy will serve as the zero gravity indicator -- meaning that he will begin to float inside the capsule once it reaches the space environment.
Additional science experiments and technology demonstrations are also riding in a ring on the rocket. From there, 10 small satellites, called CubeSats, will detach and go their separate ways to collect information on the moon and the deep space environment.
Cameras inside and outside of Orion will share images and video throughout the mission, including live views from the Callisto experiment, which will capture a stream of Commander Moonikin Campos sitting in the commander's seat. And if you have an Amazon Alexa-enabled device, you can ask it about the mission's location each day.
Expect to see views of Earthrise similar to what was shared for the first time during the Apollo 8 mission back in 1968, but with much better cameras and technology.
The inaugural mission of the Artemis program will kick off a phase of NASA space exploration that intends to land diverse astronaut crews at previously unexplored regions of the moon -- on the Artemis II and Artemis III missions, slated for 2024 and 2025 respectively -- and eventually delivers crewed missions to Mars. | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/nasa-once-again-calls-off-artemis-i-launch-due-to-technical-issues/article_eee22282-3316-5646-a139-8c947d6b1676.html | 2022-09-03T18:34:57Z |
High school football player dies after suffering head injury, family says
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - A high school student in Texas has died after sustaining a severe head injury during a junior varsity football game.
KCBD reports that sophomore Yahir Cancino was injured during Thursday’s game when the Dalhart Golden Wolves were taking on the Sundown Roughnecks.
Officials stated the Dalhart High School student lost consciousness during the game. When medical staff could not revive him, he was airlifted to a hospital and placed in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Yahir’s family started a GoFundMe account, asking for assistance through prayer and donations.
“I believe in the power of prayers. I believe in miracles. We continue to ask for your prayers. Thank you all for those who have prayed over us,” the organizer wrote.
On Saturday, Yahir’s mother shared on social media that her son had succumbed to his injuries.
“We ask for prayers for peace and healing not only for us but for all the people Yahir touched in his life,” Yahir’s mother wrote in the post. “We have chosen to donate his organs because Yahir was always about helping people and we want to honor his memory.”
After Thursday’s game, Sundown expressed their support for Yahir and his family.
“Yahir Cancino, a Dalhart JV football player, was sent to the hospital during the game and needs prayers, love and support. The community of Sundown lifts up our neighbors from Dalhart at this time,” the social media post stated.
Friday’s game between the two schools was also canceled.
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Parole denied for David Carroll, convicted of murdering 3-year-old foster child
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - The man convicted in 2007 of murdering his 3-year-old foster child has been denied parole.
WXIX reports David Caroll was eligible for parole this year, but a parole board decided against his release.
Sixteen years ago, David and Liz Carroll were foster parents to Marcus Fiesel, a child living with autism.
According to authorities, the Carrolls wrapped Marcus in a blanket, put tape around him and left him in a closet where temperatures reached over 100 degrees in August 2006. The boy was without food or water.
Clermont County Prosecutor Mark Tekulve said Liz Carroll admitted they left the 3-year-old in the closet. They attended a family reunion in Kentucky, and Marcus was dead when they returned home 30 hours later.
Instead of calling the police, Tekulve said they covered the boy’s body with clothes and put him in a large box. David Carroll and his live-in girlfriend, Amy Baker, drove to an abandoned chimney in Brown County, where David Carroll lit the box on fire.
The Clermont County prosecutor said David Carroll collected the child’s remains and threw them in the Ohio River before faking the boy’s disappearance.
Officials said David Carroll pleaded guilty to murder and gross abuse of a corpse in 2007. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
On Friday, the Ohio Parole Board said David Carroll has not demonstrated adequate institutional conduct and lacks insight into criminal thinking errors and risk factors.
The board also said there is reason to believe David Carroll would engage in further criminal conduct if he were granted parole and noted there was significant community opposition against his release.
Among those who urged against parole being granted was Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.
“I still cannot imagine how two people could do something like this. This sweet boy suffered a brutal death, he died alone, locked in a closet by the very people who were supposed to protect him,” Deters said. “Now, David Carroll is asking the parole board to show compassion. Monsters like him should never get out of prison.”
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Texans to host Uvalde high school team at season opener
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans will host the Uvalde high school football team and wear “Uvalde Strong” decals on their helmets when they open the season Sept. 11 against Indianapolis.
A contingent from the team, including coach Lovie Smith and linebackers Christian Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill, visited Uvalde on Thursday night and surprised the team with new uniforms provided by Nike during a team dinner.
“It was just special to see the smiles on their faces because we know this city was impacted drastically,” Kirksey said in a television interview. “Being a leader and not just being a football player but being somebody that can be an extra shoulder to lean on, it definitely warmed something in my heart... (and) we’re just going to be here with the city and let them know that we support them in every way and we’re going to be here for them.”
This is part of the team’s continuing support for the community. The Texans donated $400,000 to the Robb Elementary School memorial fund after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting there in May.
During the visit, the Texans also announced that they were joining with grocery store chain H-E-B to pay for the high school team to travel to the opener and take in the NFL game from a suite.
Kirksey and Grugier-Hill showed the team the decal on a Texans helmet during an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“You guys will be with us, and we’ll be with you,” Grugier-Hill told them while holding the helmet. “Words can’t even describe or help anything you’ve been through, so we can only try to empathize (with) you guys and be there for you guys.”
The visit continued Friday when team owners Cal and Hannah McNair joined members of the organization in town and the team hosted football camps and clinics for hundreds of children before attending Uvalde’s home opener.
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Parole denied for David Carroll, convicted of murdering 3-year-old foster child
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - The man convicted in 2007 of murdering his 3-year-old foster child has been denied parole.
WXIX reports David Caroll was eligible for parole this year, but a parole board decided against his release.
Sixteen years ago, David and Liz Carroll were foster parents to Marcus Fiesel, a child living with autism.
According to authorities, the Carrolls wrapped Marcus in a blanket, put tape around him and left him in a closet where temperatures reached over 100 degrees in August 2006. The boy was without food or water.
Clermont County Prosecutor Mark Tekulve said Liz Carroll admitted they left the 3-year-old in the closet. They attended a family reunion in Kentucky, and Marcus was dead when they returned home 30 hours later.
Instead of calling the police, Tekulve said they covered the boy’s body with clothes and put him in a large box. David Carroll and his live-in girlfriend, Amy Baker, drove to an abandoned chimney in Brown County, where David Carroll lit the box on fire.
The Clermont County prosecutor said David Carroll collected the child’s remains and threw them in the Ohio River before faking the boy’s disappearance.
Officials said David Carroll pleaded guilty to murder and gross abuse of a corpse in 2007. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
On Friday, the Ohio Parole Board said David Carroll has not demonstrated adequate institutional conduct and lacks insight into criminal thinking errors and risk factors.
The board also said there is reason to believe David Carroll would engage in further criminal conduct if he were granted parole and noted there was significant community opposition against his release.
Among those who urged against parole being granted was Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.
“I still cannot imagine how two people could do something like this. This sweet boy suffered a brutal death, he died alone, locked in a closet by the very people who were supposed to protect him,” Deters said. “Now, David Carroll is asking the parole board to show compassion. Monsters like him should never get out of prison.”
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the Artemis I launch scrub Saturday from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency will hold a media briefing no earlier than 4 p.m. EDT on Saturday Sept. 3, to discuss mission status. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson provided initial remarks following the scrub.
Artemis I is a flight test to launch NASA's Space Launch System rocket and an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon before the Artemis II mission with astronauts aboard.
The briefing will livestream on NASA Television and the agency's app. Watch on the agency's website at:
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, NASA's Artemis launch director, waived off the Artemis I launch attempt at approximately 11:17 a.m. Teams encountered a liquid hydrogen leak while loading the propellant into the rocket's core stage. Multiple troubleshooting efforts to address the area of the leak by reseating a seal in the quick disconnect where liquid hydrogen is fed into the rocket did not fix the issue. Engineers are continuing to gather additional data.
The following individuals are confirmed to participate in the news briefing at this time, with additional participants to be determined:
- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
- Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters
To participate by telephone, media must RSVP by the start of the call to: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars.
For updates, follow along on NASA's Artemis blog.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Piedmont Orthopedics | OrthoAtlanta will serve as the Official Orthopedic Sports Medicine Provider for this year's Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games with Oregon vs. Georgia on Saturday, Sept. 3 and Clemson vs. Georgia Tech on Monday, Sept. 5. OrthoAtlanta has served as the Official Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Provider for more than 10 years, since the Chick-fil-A Kick Off Games originated.
"We're honored to once again be there to support the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games and its players," said Todd Schmidt, M.D., a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician. "Our role on the field is an important one, as we ensure all players are safe, and in the event of an injury, we're there to provide best-practice treatments for sports-related injuries." Dr. Schmidt has served as the Medical Director for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games since the first kickoff game in 2008.
According to Schmidt, while teams typically travel with their own medical-support staff, OrthoAtlanta is there for both home teams as well as those traveling from out-of-state, serving as the key medical point-of-contact and assisting with any orthopedic and sports medicine needs.
"OrthoAtlanta physicians and medical staff work together with Peach Bowl staff, the teams and officials, to deliver top medical services each year," said Gary Stokan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and president of Peach Bowl, Inc. "We're thankful for the expertise and support that OrthoAtlanta provides our teams, helping make the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games possible."
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Billionaire Elon Musk's chances of walking away unscathed from his commitment to buy Twitter just improved, thanks to recent allegations from the company's former security chief.
Twitter looks like a cybersecurity dumpster fire in a whistleblower complaint submitted to federal regulators by Peiter Zatko. He complains of lax security practices that put users' personal data at risk and the social media company in danger of violating a settlement agreement with federal regulators. He also alleges that the Indian government forced Twitter to hire two government agents who had access to sensitive data.
Soon after Zatko's concerns became public, Musk referenced them in new legal claims. The Tesla CEO now argues that Twitter is damaged goods and by hiding such egregious problems, it committed fraud.
Twitter calls Zatko's complaints inaccurate, inconsistent and opportunistic.
Twitter sued Musk in July after he tried to break off the agreement to buy the company for $44 billion. Musk claimed that the company had understated the prevalence of bots–or spam accounts–on its platform and that was justification for his change of heart.
Given that Musk had waived due diligence when he signed the agreement–not to mention that it was he, and not the company, who had sought the acquisition–many experts believed he had a flimsy legal case.
His legal claims "just always seemed like such an incredibly long shot argument to begin with," said Ann Lipton, a business and securities law professor at Tulane University. "The other allegations – hair-raising data-security and intellectual-property problems – those at least have a lot more potential."
The trial is scheduled to begin October 17 in Delaware. Musk has asked the judge for a delay so that his legal team could gather more information about what went on inside Twitter.
Twitter has claimed that any delay hurts its business and shareholders.
Why Musk has a better chance to walk away from the deal
Zatko, who also goes by his hacker handle "Mudge," worked as Twitter's head of security from 2020 until January. During that time, he says, company leaders –including CEO Parag Agrawal – ignored his warnings about serious security flaws. In a whistleblower complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, Zatko alleges that executives ignored these problems.
Twitter said Zatko's complaint is a "false narrative" and inaccurate, and that he was fired for poor performance.
The company is under an FTC consent agreement, signed in 2011 after hackers repeatedly seized control and tweeted from a handful of users' accounts. At the time, the agency said Twitter "failed to take reasonable steps" to safeguard its system. The agreement requires the company to maintain a comprehensive security system and be truthful with users about the extent to which it protects their personal information.
After Zatko's allegations became public, Musk filed a new letter to terminate the contract to buy Twitter. His lawyers argue that, if the allegations are true, the FTC could fine Twitter millions of dollars for violating the consent agreement.
"Twitter has already paid a fine of $150 million for violating an aspect of that decree, and Facebook recently paid $5 billion for similar user data violations," the letter notes.
That risk, previously hidden, gives Musk the right to walk away, it says.
Whistleblower complaint also has the attention of Congress
Zatko is scheduled to be deposed by Musk's lawyers on Sept. 9. The following week, he's slotted to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
If Zatko's claims are accurate, "they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world," the top lawmakers on the committee, Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois and and Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said in a statement, pledging the committee would "get to the bottom of these alarming allegations."
Senators have also asked the FTC to investigate Twitter. The agency has declined to comment.
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A civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by a 22-year-old woman on behalf of herself and her younger brother accuses renowned actor, comedian and author Tiffany Haddish and fellow comedian Aries Spears of abusing the plaintiffs sexually when they were both minors.
Filed using the pseudonyms "Jane Doe" and "John Doe" (the brother, born in 2007, is still a minor) the lawsuit alleges Haddish and Spears groomed the young plaintiffs and coerced them into "filming sexually explicit child pornography skits."
The plaintiffs allege they were introduced to Haddish and Spears through their mother. The lawsuit describes Haddish as a "longtime family friend."
The lawsuit contends, "Haddish and Spears took advantage and stole the youth of a 7-year-old child and a 14-year-old child."
The lawsuit highlights two separate incidents of alleged sexual abuse of minors, alleging that both took place in Los Angeles. Jane Doe accuses the entertainers of pressuring her to mimic fellatio for a video in 2013. The lawsuit also contends John Doe was coerced to appear in a sexually suggestive video in his underwear and that the 2014 film featured both Haddish and Spears.
The video, "Through a Pedophile's Eyes," found its way onto the comedy video website Funny Or Die and elsewhere on the web.
"Funny Or Die found this video absolutely disgusting and would never produce such content," a spokesperson for company said in a statement shared with NPR. "We were not involved with the conceptualization, development, funding, or production of this video. It was uploaded to the site as user-generated content and was removed in 2018 immediately after becoming aware of its existence."
In a statement shared with NPR via email, Andrew Brettler, Haddish's attorney, discarded the plaintiffs' claims against his client as "bogus." Brettler said the plaintiffs' mother has been trying to discredit Haddish with these accusations for several years.
"Every attorney who has initially taken on her case — and there were several — ultimately dropped the matter once it became clear that the claims were meritless and Ms. Haddish would not be shaken down. Now, [she] has her adult daughter representing herself in this lawsuit. The two of them will together face the consequences of pursuing this frivolous action."
Spears' lawyer, Debra Opri, responded to NPR's request for comment with one line regarding her client's response to the allegations: "He isn't going to fall for any shakedown."
In an email sent to NPR from "Jane Doe," the plaintiff noted Haddish's attorney Brettler had "built his career" on representing celebrities involved in sexual abuse cases. "We are not surprised that Mr. Brettler would attempt to divert the attention away from the legitimate claims filed by my brother and me, to shift the blame and attention to our mother who is not a party to this lawsuit."
Jane Doe said in addition to the civil lawsuit filed this week, she and her brother are calling for the Los Angeles Police Department to criminally charge the entertainers. "It is our hope that the LAPD will finally act and immediately arrest both Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears."
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This week, J.K. Rowling's new book raised eyebrows, Dolly Parton launched a pet apparel collection, and Taylor Swift broke the internet with the announcement of her new album.
Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.
Horror in the High Desert
What's making me happy is actually something that scared me so bad, I was sitting in my room screaming. It's called Horror in the High Desert on Amazon. It's done in a kind of mockumentary style, and it's about a guy that goes hiking. He doesn't come back.
It turns out the second to last time he went out, he had seen this very strange place, and he felt like someone was following him. And then, of course, he goes back out to this place.
I love Dateline mysteries, and this is like a Dateline mystery that really sticks the landing. Because most times, they don't go where you want them to go, like it's the ex-boyfriend who did it or something. No, this takes it where you want it to go.
The last act and ending are so good with the horror because it's found footage. I can't give it away, but oh my goodness, this is why I will never go hiking or camping in my life. That's it, after Blair Witch and this, I would never do it. I'm done. — Ayesha Rascoe
Claim to Fame
Youngest, "bonus" Jonas brother Frankie Jonas and his brother Kevin Jonas are co-hosts of the ABC show Claim to Fame, and it's so good. It's a reality competition, and the premise is that all the contestants are the un-famous relatives of celebrities. So hence the Frankie Jonas involvement.
They all live together in a house, and they don't know who the other contestants are related to. You have Whoopi Goldberg's granddaughter, Simone Biles' sister, and Chuck Norris' grandson. And this is just in the first episode, so don't even worry about spoilers.
Their goal is to conceal their celebrity relatives' identities while trying to figure out everyone else's. There are elaborate, kind of convoluted games that they play to get clues, and while you're watching you kind of play along.
When they're onto someone and that person is in danger of leaving the house, they go into survival mode and start to lash out on all these friends they made over the last few weeks. It's stressful, it's messy, and I love it. I have to watch every episode. — J.C. Howard
Beyoncé's Renaissance, and Kevin Bacon's cover of "Heated"
It has been just about a month since Beyoncé's album, Renaissance, was released. I can't stop playing it, and neither can anybody else.
There's this wonderful video that Kevin Bacon, yes the Kevin Bacon, posted on social platforms a few days ago. He performs an acoustic rendition of Beyoncé's "Heated" from the new album with his baby goats all around him, and it's amazing.
Hot day, hot song. The goats and I are feeling Heated, @Beyonce. Loving this track. #GoatSongs #Renaissance pic.twitter.com/nuLvngY8Us
— Kevin Bacon (@kevinbacon) August 28, 2022
You realize watching Kevin Bacon pay homage to Beyoncé that this album has truly penetrated the zeitgeist, and it is a testament to her wisdom and power some 20 years into her career that she still has this chokehold on us.
I'm obsessed. Beyoncé, I love you. It is your year, your renaissance. — Sam Sanders
Emily the Criminal
I saw this months ago at Sundance, and it has finally come out. It was one of those movies that really stuck with me when I saw it there, and it's Emily the Criminal, which stars the wonderful, amazing, weird, great Aubrey Plaza.
It's this very taut thriller-action movie in which she plays a woman who's true to my soul — tens of thousands of dollars in student debt. She struggles to find a well-paying job because of a past criminal conviction, so she finds herself connected to this credit card fraud ring, and then everything goes wrong.
I think it's really sharp. It's got all of the current political commentary going on here, and Aubrey gives this fantastic performance of a person who is both in over their head but is just so desperate and is trying to do what she can just to survive.
It also has some great performances from Gina Gershon and Theo Rossi. You can see it in theaters now, or just note it for later when it reaches VOD. It's just really fun and thoughtful, and I highly recommend it. Also, it is 90 minutes long, and I love a 90-minute movie. — Aisha Harris
More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter
Fans of romance might enjoy this NPR piece about Gen Z, love stories, and social media (and, of course, Colleen Hoover and Emily Henry).
If you haven't yet checked out Mo on Netflix, starring Mo Amer and created by Amer and Ramy Youssef (whose terrific show Ramy is over on Hulu), I recommend it highly. Also, we'll be covering it on the show next week, so you'll be all ready!
I never miss a chance to read Soraya Nadia McDonald writing about Serena Williams, this time motivated by the question of who will be the film auteur of tennis.
NPR's own Eric Deggans had a piece last week looking at the memoir of Michael K. Williams, the marvelous actor some of you knew as Omar Little. Williams passed away nearly a year ago with the book close to being finished; it was completed by his co-author.
by Linda Holmes
NPR's Maison Tran adapted the Pop Culture Happy Hour segment "What's Making Us Happy" into a digital page. If you like these suggestions, consider signing up for our newsletter to get recommendations every week. And listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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PARIS — Augustin Laborde quit drinking during the early stages of the pandemic two years ago. But when things finally opened up, he says meeting up with friends in bars quickly became a frustrating experience.
"My only options were basically sugary soda or fruit juice," he says.
So Laborde, a lawyer with a passion for side projects, started doing some internet research.
Turns out, there was a whole range of alcohol-free beverages on the market; they just weren't on menus.
That's when a light bulb turned on.
In April, Laborde opened Le Paon Qui Boit, meaning The Drinking Peacock — which promotes itself as Paris' first non-alcoholic wine and liquor store. The shop boasts more than 300 bottles of low and zero-proof beers, wines, gins and whiskeys.
"I really value the element of inclusiveness in these products," Laborde says. "Virtually everyone can drink them — we aren't separated by drinkers and non-drinkers."
On a recent day, Laborde offers a tasting of one line of products in particular: wine.
"People are surprised when they see the higher price points," Laborde says, which can be around 10 to 15 euros a bottle, compared to 4 to 8 euros for a bottle with alcohol in Paris.
It all has to do with the non-alcoholic winemaking process, which requires an extra step. After going through the traditional fermentation process, Laborde says the alcohol in the wine is evaporated using a special filtration process.
He also expects the taste to become more refined, as techniques improve and the zero-proof market grows.
"This is definitely not a fad," says Dan Mettyear, who works with the consultancy group IWSR Drinks Market Analysis. According to Mettyear, non-alcoholic wine consumption across the global market has grown by 24% in the last year alone.
"It's all connected to the kind of big wellness trends that we've seen across the world," he says.
There are even vineyards dedicated entirely to producing non-alcoholic wine. One of them is Le Petit Béret, a small French brand headquartered in Béziers, in southern France's Occitanie region, that makes low-sugar, non-fermented white, red and rosé wine and sparkling wines.
But Mettyear says it probably wouldn't come as much of a shock that growth has been slower in France than the U.S. and much of Europe.
"Particularly in kind of like traditional wine markets, it's a bit of a harder sell," he says. "A lot of people have already well-established ideas about what wine is and what wine should taste like."
People like the staff at Le Baron Rouge, a wine bar in Paris's 11th arrondissement that's about as traditionalist as it can get.
Opened in 1979, this tiny establishment is famous for serving wine from colossal wooden barrels.
Sommelier Olivier Collin is doing his annual washdown of the barrels when NPR asks him if he's heard about the rising trend.
He shakes his head in disapproval.
"I don't understand why you would want to try wine without the alcohol!" he says.
"It's the same thing with vegan meat. I'm a vegetarian but I don't understand why we need to eat something equal to meat or to wine or beer! What's wrong with fruit juice?"
But with some persuasion, he agrees to a tasting of bottles procured from Laborde's shop — including a sauvignon blanc and a zero-proof champagne.
Collin and his staff take a curious sniff of the sauvignon.
"It smells like cat piss ... which means it smells like an authentic sauvignon," Collin says with a chuckle.
He takes a first swig.
"It's nice!" he says, surprised.
On the flavor notes, Collin tastes a mix of apple, pear and onion.
"It's fruity and refreshing," he says.
But then Collin goes for a second sip — and isn't as impressed.
"Too sweet ... and definitely doesn't taste like a wine," he says.
The flavor of a wine can change the more it breathes after the bottle is opened, but Collin says he was a bit shocked by how frequently the taste of this sauvignon did. Based on the tasting — and Collin's overall antipathy — it's unlikely you'll be seeing any non-alcoholic wine at Le Baron Rouge anytime soon.
But curious taste testers at an outdoor event hosted by Le Paon Qui Boit disagree with Collin's take.
Charles Vaubin says he's been trying to cut down on his alcohol consumption while his wife is pregnant.
"In France, [wine] is about culture. ... It's about gastronomy and it's interesting to add this aspect in a non-alcoholic product."
In other words, he says, wine traditionalists should realize they all have the same goal — to prove France is producing some of the world's best wines, with or without alcohol.
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President Biden is switching up his climate team at the White House.
On Friday, Biden announced his national climate adviser, Gina McCarthy, will step down. Her deputy, Ali Zaidi, will move into her role. And John Podesta, a chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton and a climate adviser to former President Barack Obama, will join the team to oversee the implementation of the recently passed $369 billion in climate-related incentives and funding in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Climate advocates cheered the move. "The good news is that the White House at the highest levels seems determined to ensure that this historic once-in-a-generation investment will not be squandered," said Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group.
"Typically past administrations would simply count on the agencies to make these investments without a lot of White House scrutiny. This is different," Faber said.
Zaidi brings state experience to the table
Zaidi, who will be Biden's national climate adviser, worked on the issue in the Obama White House, and then moved to work on climate policy at the state level in New York. He helped the Biden team craft its climate plans during the campaign.
On the NPR Politics Podcast this week, Zaidi said the administration is counting on the investments and incentives in the new law to boost manufacturing and deployment of clean energy to the point where developments cannot be rolled back by the next administration to come into office.
"No one's going back and taking solar panels and wind turbines out of the ground and replacing it with dirty energy," Zaidi said.
Lisa Frank, executive director of the Washington legislative office of Environment America, said Zaidi's state experience will help the administration get its new programs up and running.
"What Ali brings to the table that is really great is his background working at the state level," Frank said. "Even with this big legislative victory, that's still going to be the case. States are still where kind of much of the rubber will hit the road on these policies."
Podesta helped craft executive actions in the Obama White House
The switch in leadership also comes as green and environmental groups continue to push Biden for aggressive executive action on climate and conservation.
"We've already got executive actions that are coming down the pike," Zaidi told NPR, highlighting another round of methane emission standards coming this fall.
Podesta advised Obama to make greater use of his executive powers when he joined that White House at a time when Congress was controlled by Republicans.
Earlier this summer, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA doesn't have the authority to regulate the carbon emissions of power plants, pausing Obama-era rules that never went into effect and setting back some of the Biden administration's plans.
Podesta is a Washington veteran who has worked in two White Houses. He chaired Hillary Clinton's campaign for president in 2016. Earlier, he served as chief counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Podesta will focus on implementing the climate actions in the Inflation Reduction Act. Energy and climate advocates are hoping that Podesta will have a strong hand.
"John Podesta, former White House chief of staff, is a deep expert and in this role, really sends a powerful signal that there will be lots and lots of scrutiny," Faber said. "And so everything we're hearing and including this announcement demonstrates that this is an administration that recognizes that there won't be a do-over. We have to make every dollar count if we want to avoid a climate catastrophe."
Biden also nominated a new regulatory czar, who could also play a big role on climate
The White House also announced on Friday that Biden would nominate Richard Revesz to a powerful regulatory job in its budget office: the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA).
Revesz, a law professor at New York University, specializes in environmental and regulatory law. If confirmed by the Senate to lead OIRA, he would have a key role in the oversight of executive climate action.
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At least eight migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days of heavy rains that had resulted in particularly swift currents. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered two others, according to a CBP statement.
The agency said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody. Officials on both sides of the border continue searching for any possible victims, the CBP said.
CPB did not say what country or countries the migrants were from and did not provide any additional information on the rescue or search. Local agencies in Texas that were involved did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.
The Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000.
The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them in families with young children. About 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector in July were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CPB said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
Surveys by the U.N. International Organization for Migration and others point to rising fatalities as the number of crossing attempts have soared. In the last three decades, thousands have died attempting to enter the United States from Mexico, often from dehydration or drowning.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
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Billionaire Elon Musk's chances of walking away unscathed from his commitment to buy Twitter just improved, thanks to recent allegations from the company's former security chief.
Twitter looks like a cybersecurity dumpster fire in a whistleblower complaint submitted to federal regulators by Peiter Zatko. He complains of lax security practices that put users' personal data at risk and the social media company in danger of violating a settlement agreement with federal regulators. He also alleges that the Indian government forced Twitter to hire two government agents who had access to sensitive data.
Soon after Zatko's concerns became public, Musk referenced them in new legal claims. The Tesla CEO now argues that Twitter is damaged goods and by hiding such egregious problems, it committed fraud.
Twitter calls Zatko's complaints inaccurate, inconsistent and opportunistic.
Twitter sued Musk in July after he tried to break off the agreement to buy the company for $44 billion. Musk claimed that the company had understated the prevalence of bots–or spam accounts–on its platform and that was justification for his change of heart.
Given that Musk had waived due diligence when he signed the agreement–not to mention that it was he, and not the company, who had sought the acquisition–many experts believed he had a flimsy legal case.
His legal claims "just always seemed like such an incredibly long shot argument to begin with," said Ann Lipton, a business and securities law professor at Tulane University. "The other allegations – hair-raising data-security and intellectual-property problems – those at least have a lot more potential."
The trial is scheduled to begin October 17 in Delaware. Musk has asked the judge for a delay so that his legal team could gather more information about what went on inside Twitter.
Twitter has claimed that any delay hurts its business and shareholders.
Why Musk has a better chance to walk away from the deal
Zatko, who also goes by his hacker handle "Mudge," worked as Twitter's head of security from 2020 until January. During that time, he says, company leaders –including CEO Parag Agrawal – ignored his warnings about serious security flaws. In a whistleblower complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, Zatko alleges that executives ignored these problems.
Twitter said Zatko's complaint is a "false narrative" and inaccurate, and that he was fired for poor performance.
The company is under an FTC consent agreement, signed in 2011 after hackers repeatedly seized control and tweeted from a handful of users' accounts. At the time, the agency said Twitter "failed to take reasonable steps" to safeguard its system. The agreement requires the company to maintain a comprehensive security system and be truthful with users about the extent to which it protects their personal information.
After Zatko's allegations became public, Musk filed a new letter to terminate the contract to buy Twitter. His lawyers argue that, if the allegations are true, the FTC could fine Twitter millions of dollars for violating the consent agreement.
"Twitter has already paid a fine of $150 million for violating an aspect of that decree, and Facebook recently paid $5 billion for similar user data violations," the letter notes.
That risk, previously hidden, gives Musk the right to walk away, it says.
Whistleblower complaint also has the attention of Congress
Zatko is scheduled to be deposed by Musk's lawyers on Sept. 9. The following week, he's slotted to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
If Zatko's claims are accurate, "they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world," the top lawmakers on the committee, Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois and and Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said in a statement, pledging the committee would "get to the bottom of these alarming allegations."
Senators have also asked the FTC to investigate Twitter. The agency has declined to comment.
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Without mystery, hero, handsome prince or fairy godmother — Goodnight Moon has now lulled millions of children to sleep, in more than two dozen languages, for 75 years.
Written by Margaret Wise Brown, with illustrations by Clement Hurd, the picture book, which has sold more than 40 million copies since its publication on Sept. 3, 1947, wins its readers with a soothing series of goodnights to the everyday objects in "the great green room" before bedtime.
"It mirrors what's happening for the child, but it also gives them a feeling of some other world, something else that's sort of a larger, more peaceful world," says Thacher Hurd, Clement's son and himself a children's book author and illustrator.
"'Good night stars and good night air. Good night noises everywhere.' It's very expansive. You don't even think about it, but it is extremely sort of open and wide and a big feeling to it," reflects Hurd.
Goodnight Moon has been adapted for stage and screen, been featured on The Simpsons, parodied, and given a special reading by LeVar Burton to Neil deGrasse Tyson. To celebrate its 75th anniversary, HarperCollins is publishing a special slipcase edition with a new foreword by Thacher Hurd.
But the now iconic picture book was by no means an overnight sensation. Hard to believe — but in 1947 this innocent bedtime ritual was considered revolutionary.
Fairy tales versus the here-and-now
Once upon a time, librarians set the standard for what books children should read. For decades, they believed classic fairy tales and fantasy were best for young minds, says children's book historian Leonard Marcus. They favored stories, he explains, "that transported children out of the everyday world and enriched and cultivated their imagination."
By contrast, Brown brought children into a world they might know.
"Goodnight Moon was one of the first books for young children that focused on the everyday and recognized its value and significance for young children," says Marcus, author of Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon.
In 1935, Brown began a long association with the progressive Bank Street school in New York City. Founded by educator and writer Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Bank Street brought together psychologists, pediatricians, sociologists, and student teachers to explore how children learn. They collected data by observing and talking directly to the experts: the children themselves. Their findings are neatly summed up in the title of Mitchell's Here And Now Story Book.
Marcus says Bank Street practitioners learned that children, "want to know about the world they're in at the moment, starting with their own room and their own surroundings and their own street. The noises they hear, the airplanes that go overhead, the trains and cars that go by, they thought all those everyday things were wonderful from a from a young child's perspective."
The udder problem
Goodnight Moon had its own kind of "here-and-now" spirit. But for a children's book to be commercially successful in 1947, it needed the approval of the New York Public Library, namely its influential children's librarian Anne Carroll Moore.
Moore had an aversion to the progressives at Bank Street, something Goodnight Moon's editor at Harper's, Ursula Nordstrom, knew first-hand. In 1945, Moore tried to prevent another book Nordstrom edited, E.B. White's Stuart Little, from being published. Moore was apparently disturbed at the thought of a mouse being born to a human.
Nordstrom, says Marcus, understood that Moore and other librarians "were very squeamish about bodily parts and physicality in general." So she told illustrator Clement Hurd to make small tweaks to a couple of the items in his vibrant and detailed "great green room."
In an early version of Hurd's artwork, the mouse was on the little bunny's bed and the cow jumping over the moon in the picture on the wall was anatomically correct with an udder. Take the mouse off the bed and remove the udder from the cow, Nordstrom advised. "She was on the alert," says Marcus. "She didn't want to deep six a book based on one or two details in the pictures."
When Goodnight Moon was published in 1947, reviews were generally positive. The Christian Science Monitor wrote, "in these days of hurry and strain, a book for little children which creates an atmosphere of peace and calm is something for which to be thankful." Kirkus Reviews called it a "really fresh idea."
But, despite Nordstrom's efforts, Moore was not impressed. The New York Public Library not only excluded Goodnight Moon from its recommended children's book list, it didn't even acquire it for the NYPL system.
"What they didn't understand was, [Brown] went straight to the child and that sort of basic human need," says Jean McGinley, vice president and associate publisher for HarperCollins' Children's Books. McGinley calls Brown a "trailblazer" who "broke a formula" and incorporated "social emotional learning...before anybody else."
Margaret Wise Brown was something of a glamourous, wild-child: a spirited, creative and experimental writer known for wearing furs and driving a convertible. She loved rabbits and kept them as pets. The Runaway Bunny is another Brown/Hurd collaboration. But she was also active in the sport of "beagling" in which runners race through the woods after beagles chasing down hares or rabbits — and not to kiss them goodnight. "She was not like a sweet, cute children's book writer," remarks Thacher Hurd wryly.
"I don't especially like children"
Commenting on the possible contradiction between creating cuddly bunny characters and hunting them for sport, Brown told Life magazine, "Well I don't especially like children, either," she continued, "at least not as a group. I won't let anyone get away with anything just because he is little."
But Brown expressed that she was very much in touch with her inner child. She once said that, to be a children's writer "one has to love not children but what children love." And Brown did understand and give children what they wanted. In addition to writing more than 100 stories for them, she championed and edited other children's book writers and illustrators. She introduced the board book after observing small children chew on pages, and picture books with fur and bells and other tactile sensations.
"A book can make a child laugh or feel clear-and-happy-headed as he follows a simple rhythm to its logical end," Brown once said. "It can jog him with the unexpected and comfort him with the familiar, lift him for a few minutes from his own problems of shoelaces that won't tie and busy parents and mysterious clock-time, into the world of a bug or a bear or a bee or a boy living in the timeless world of story. If I've been lucky, I hope I have written a book simple enough to come near to that timeless world."
Margaret Wise Brown never lived to see Goodnight Moon's colossal success. In 1952, on a trip to Paris, she died suddenly from an embolism following an operation. She was 42 years old. Twenty years later, the New York Public Library acquired Goodnight Moon and eventually named it one of the "Books of the Century."
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Climate change has caused more intense wildfires, heat waves, floods and hurricanes, lengthened allergy seasons and inflicted other forms of tangible harm. But an oft-overlooked consequence — one that warrants urgent attention and creative problem-solving — is worsening mental health.
The COVID pandemic has been a time of enormous suffering. According to the World Health Organization, the prevalence of depression and anxiety increased 25% globally during the first year of the pandemic. We are bruised and vulnerable, struggling to right ourselves after a tumultuous two and a half years.
But the daily reminders of global warming, including extreme heat, water rationing and parched landscapes, are threatening to worsen the situation, and we don't have medications or vaccines to save us.
Climate change has direct effects on mood
Heat itself is associated with mental illness. Mood disorders, anxiety and aggressive behavior have been linked to higher temperatures. A 2019 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that violent crime in Los Angeles increased by 5.7% on days when temperatures rose above 85 F compared to cooler days.
Authors of a 2018 study in the journal Nature predicted warmer temperatures could lead to as many as 40,000 additional suicides in the U.S. and Mexico by 2050.
"There is a direct link, and mental health and psychosocial well-being will decline as climate change pressures increase," said Kerry Wangen, a psychiatrist in private practice in Southern California.
People who face climate-related natural disasters frequently struggle with mental health problems. Hurricanes and wildfires lead to deaths and property destruction in the short-term. But they also contribute to depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal thoughts.
Droughts can disrupt food and water supplies and lead to loss of livelihood, which can push families and whole communities into poverty, a risk factor for mental illness. According to a Washington Post analysis, more than 40% of Americans live in a county that experienced an extreme weather event in 2021.
Climate change also leads to the displacement of populations, as parts of the globe become uninhabitable due to sea-level rise, drought and other weather events. The result is more conflict and stress, both of which increase the odds of mental health problems.
Grappling with pervasive fears
The existential fear of climate change is a more pervasive concern, even if it is more subtle and less disabling than mental illnesses triggered by acute events. Fear of global warming leaves many of us feeling hopeless and powerless, dreading what is to come and sensing it is inevitable.
"Although I've never had a patient present primarily for climate-related anxiety, it's common to discover that it's there alongside other social and societal fears," said Daniel Hochman, an Austin-based psychiatrist.
A 2020 poll by the American Psychiatric Association found that 67% of Americans are somewhat or extremely anxious about the effects of climate change, and 55% are worried about its impact on their mental health.
According to Hochman, climate anxiety — also referred to as "climate distress," "climate grief" or "eco-anxiety"— can manifest as dysthymia, in which people are sad for the state of the world, and contribute to generalized anxiety disorder major depressive disorder, panic disorder and insomnia.
For children and young adults, aware that they have the most to lose, the climate crisis is a common source of distress. In a global survey, published in The Lancet in December, nearly 60% of the 16- to 25-year-old respondents reported they were "very" or "extremely" worried about climate change. An additional 25% admitted feeling "moderately" worried. Over 45% said climate change has a negative impact on their daily lives.
What you can do about it
During this summer of record-breaking heat, efforts to combat climate change have seen failure and triumph. On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court undercut the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate carbon emissions. Last week, however, Congress passed legislation that will provide nearly $400 billion in tax credits for clean-energy projects to slow global warming.
As we move to address the palpable effects of climate change, we'd do well to follow the WHO's recommendations to include mental-health and psychosocial support. We also need to boost funding for mental health and climate-change mitigation.
Bob Doppelt, coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition and author of the forthcoming book Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities, laments the inadequacies of our "crisis- and illness-focused" mental health, social service and disaster-response systems.
To address the "climate mega-emergency," he calls for a public health approach to prevent and heal trauma and is working on federal legislation to support community mental health and resilience.
For those, like me, who often stare at the weather forecast with a sense of doom, Wangen recommends channeling our concern into positive change. Here are a few ideas:
1) Get involved locally
"Find ways to do something, however small, to make an impact locally and/or on a bigger scale," Wangen said. Increase stress-reduction practices, such as meditation and prayer, and focus "on the present day to keep perspective in the here and now where change can be made, and life can be lived."
2) Focus on small signs of progress
Doppelt encourages people to "get engaged in an existing neighborhood or community-based coalition or join with friends and colleagues to form a new one that strengthens the entire population's capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for accumulating adversities." Small signs of progress, he said, help create a sense of hope.
3) Join the conversation
Other innovative strategies for addressing personal eco-anxiety include attending a Climate Café, which encourages climate conversations and political engagement. The Good Grief Network is another option that seeks to build resilience and encourages meaningful action.
4) Keep things in perspective
Hochman also reminds us to get some perspective. Compared to 30 years ago, extreme poverty and famine are lower, he points out. Prior to the pandemic, life expectancy hit an all-time high. Energy and clean water are more accessible.
"Despite climate change, this is by far the safest and best time to live," he said.
This story was produced by Public Health Watch.
Lisa Doggett, an Austin physician and senior medical director of HGS AxisPoint Health, is a columnist for Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. The views expressed in her column do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of HGS AxisPoint Health or Public Health Watch.
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In January, we profiled Ibrahim Songne. As a kid, newly arrived in Italy from Burkina Faso with his family, he took his first bite of pizza. His verdict: "Gross and completely tasteless." But he had a change of taste buds and as an adult started his own pizzeria in Trento. He ran into anti-immigrant prejudices but his pizza prevailed and this year, IBRIS, his eatery, was named one of the world's top 50 pizza places by the website 50TopPizza.it. We caught up with Songne this summer to see how he's been faring.
The media response to Goats and Soda's January article about pizza maestro Ibrahim Songne was so strong that ultimately he was forced to call a moratorium on interviews.
"The requests got to be overwhelming. I am just a pizza maker," Ibrahim states. "I continue to personally prepare every slice of pizza we serve and so already almost every hour of my day is spoken for. My girlfriend kind of put her foot down. And she is the one who has had to do all of the translations into English."
Nonetheless, his appreciation for NPR's coverage was so heartfelt that he created a "Goats and Soda" pizza in our honor.
It's composed of goat cheese, dried figs, Trentingrana cheese shavings, rocket salad, pine nuts and spicy oil — quite a radical recipe by local standards. He couldn't quite bring himself to actually put soda on the pizza, though. So the pie is paired with soda instead and was an instant sensation as a rotating special.
The NPR story also gave a boost to his practice of asking clients to pay for a second pizza, which he donates to a hungry person. "I didn't realize what a huge thing NPR was until I started getting donations from around the world," he says. "I've had people calling-in to contribute from Canada, Ireland ... all over."
His pizza charity was inspired by the Neapolitan tradition of caffè sospeso ("suspended coffee") — cafe clientele pay for an additional coffee that bartenders later give anonymously to those in need. Like some other pizzeria operators, Ibrahim expanded the custom to pizza at the start of COVID lockdowns.
And even though the pandemic put some local pizza joints out of business, the demand for Ibrahim's pizza is so great that he has secured a lease and started work on a second location that is more spacious and provides seating. It is due to open by year's end.
Meanwhile, his passion for baking continues. In perpetual pursuit of "perfection," he's refined his dough recipe with a longer rise and is also close to developing a pizza crust for the gluten intolerant.
Having just celebrated the fourth anniversary of his IBRIS pizzeria, Ibrahim has become a community fixture in his hometown of Trento. A local theater company has plans to stage a play about his life — detailing his story of immigrating from Burkina Faso at age 12 without knowing a word of Italian, overcoming a stutter and then becoming a self-taught pizza chef who has garnered international acclaim.
His achievements have impressed some Italians with African roots to make a pilgrimage to the pizzeria.
Francesco, age 9, from the Piemonte region recently visited with his family, who emigrated from the Democratic Republic of Congo. They drove close to 6 hours east to visit IBRIS. The boy seemed shy but lit up when it came time to pose for a photo with Ibrahim.
"I've never seen a Black pizza maker before," he said. "I didn't even know it was possible. And this is the best pizza I've ever tasted."
Anna-Maria, age 5 and like Francesco a second generation Italian of African descent, traveled with her mother on a 3-hour train ride from the Emilia-Romagna region to sample Ibrahim's slices.
She declared, "Now that I've met Mr. Ibrahim, I know exactly what I want to be when I get older: a pizza maker .... but also a doctor, too."
Ian Brennan is Grammy-winning music producer (Zomba Prison Project, Tinariwen, The Good Ones [Rwanda], Witch Camp [Ghana]) who in the past decade has recorded in the field forty records by international artists across five continents (Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Asia). He is the author of seven books and his latest, Muse-$ick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes, was published last fall by Oakland's PM Press.
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A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
Sommer Thornton, told CNN that local news reports were advising the community to stay away from the Walmart because someone had stolen a small plane and was threatening to crash it there.
A small plane that circled for hours over Tupelo, Mississppi, and surrounding areas landed in a field in Ripley, Mississippi, the FAA said. A source told CNN the pilot, who police said threatened to crash the stolen plane into a Tupelo Walmart, is in custody.
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
Rachel McWilliams
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
Rachel McWilliams
A small airplane circles over Tupelo, Miss., on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Police say the pilot of the small airplane is threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store. The Tupelo Police Department said that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. (Rachel McWilliams via AP)
Rachel McWilliams
Sommer Thornton, told CNN that local news reports were advising the community to stay away from the Walmart because someone had stolen a small plane and was threatening to crash it there.
Sommer Thornton
A small plane that circled for hours over Tupelo, Mississppi, and surrounding areas landed in a field in Ripley, Mississippi, the FAA said. A source told CNN the pilot, who police said threatened to crash the stolen plane into a Tupelo Walmart, is in custody.
A worker at an airport who stole a twin-engine plane Saturday morning and threatened to crash it into a Mississippi Walmart was arrested after he eventually landed in a field, police said.
In a news conference Saturday, Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka identified the arrested pilot as Cory Wayne Patterson, an employee with Tupelo Aviation for the past 10 years.
Quaka said that at 5:08 a.m. local time, Patterson, of Shannon, Mississippi, stole a Beechcraft King Air C90 twin engine aircraft and took off from Tupelo Regional Airport.
"We do know Patterson has some flight instruction," Quaka said. "We do not believe he is a licensed pilot. That is still ongoing, to discover that."
As a lineman, Quaka said, Patterson is responsible for fueling aircraft. The chief said the plane was fully fueled the night before.
Around 5:23 a.m., Patterson called Lee County 911 from the aircraft and said he was going to crash the plane into the West Main Walmart in Tupelo, Quaka said. Soon thereafter, the store and surrounding areas were evacuated. Numerous major streets in Tupelo were shut down as well, according to the chief.
The Tupelo Walmart store was "closed and evacuated," Charles Crowson, director of the Walmart Press Office, told CNN earlier, while the plane was airborne.
Quaka said negotiators from Tupelo Police contacted the pilot and convinced him to land the plane at Tupelo airport. A private pilot assisted police in helping Patterson, but upon final approach the pilot aborted the landing and traveled northwest, Quaka said. Several counties were notified of what was going on, Quaka said.
More than four hours later, Patterson made a Facebook post. "In essence, it said goodbye. At this point, we knew he was getting close to running out of fuel," Quaka said.
After police lost and then re-established radar contact with the plane, Patterson confirmed he had landed in a field, according to the chief.
Soon thereafter, Patterson was taken into custody and charged with grand larceny and making terroristic threats, the chief said.
Quaka said he anticipated the federal government will proceed with federal charges.
The FAA says it is investigating the incident. The FBI field office in Jackson, Mississippi, also was involved in the incident response, a spokesperson said.
Roxanne Ward, 42, told CNN the plane landed behind the Gravestown Fire Department near her home about 10:20 a.m.
"He landed pretty hard," she said.
Video she shared with CNN shows the small plane largely intact in a field with law enforcement surrounding the pilot.
Ward heard the plane coming and ran over to her father-in-law's house to hide in the basement, she said. "That's when we heard the thud."
In response to a reporter's question, Quaka said he has been in contact with the pilot's family, who is "very concerned" about Patterson's well-being.
"Thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured," Gov. Tate Reeves said in a tweet. "Thank you most of all to local, state, and federal law enforcement who managed this situation with extreme professionalism." | https://www.kitv.com/pilot-arrested-after-threatening-to-crash-plane-into-mississippi-walmart-and-eventually-landing-in-a/article_bd2ec1a4-e375-5a40-953e-9fe6dfe49a2e.html | 2022-09-03T20:02:03Z |
Pet owners seek justice after dogs shot, killed by neighbor: ‘They were our family’
HONOLULU (KHNL/KGMB/Gray News) - A family in Hawaii is looking for justice after they say their dogs were shot and killed by a neighbor.
“Probably the most calm, gentlest Australian shepherds you’ve ever met,” said Tabitha Autele, the owner of the dogs.
Autele told KHNL/KGMB that her dogs, Bindi and Dutch, loved going to their ranch.
“They saw the truck come home from work, and they knew they were going to the ranch,” Autele said. “They happily jumped in the truck. That was their happy place and our happy place. But since this has happened, there’s no joy anymore.”
Autele and her husband, Elmer Acera, said their pups chased a mongoose onto a neighboring property in August while Acera was feeding their horses when the shooting happened.
“As I was walking down, I heard a gunshot and then a dog yell,” Acera said. “And then a few seconds later, I heard another gunshot and another dog yelp. And then I immediately thought, ‘oh no, I hope it’s not them.’”
Acera said he ran to the neighboring property to find his animals dead on the ground. He said his neighbor told him the dogs were messing with his horses, so he shot them.
“They have been around horses before, and their breed is not aggressive,” Autele said.
According to criminal defense lawyer Victor Bakke, people can defend themselves and their pets from other animals using reasonable force.
“They would be allowed to use force in a reasonable amount necessary to address the danger presented by the dogs,” Bakke said. “So they could hit them with a stick, kick them to get away. But pulling out a gun and shooting the dogs, unless there was a strong reason to believe that the dogs were likely to injure or kill the horse seriously, would be an abuse of force.”
The family said the man who shot their dogs is a parolee, and they were called to give a statement to the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
Documents showed that man was taken into custody the same day for violating his parole. However, the couple said they hope he would be charged for killing their family pets.
“I don’t want this case just shoved under a desk because they’re just dogs,” Acera said. “They’re not just dogs. They were our family.”
Bakke said the man could face a felony for unjustifiably shooting the dogs.
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Pet owners seek justice after dogs shot, killed by neighbor: ‘They were our family’
HONOLULU (KHNL/KGMB/Gray News) - A family in Hawaii is looking for justice after they say their dogs were shot and killed by a neighbor.
“Probably the most calm, gentlest Australian shepherds you’ve ever met,” said Tabitha Autele, the owner of the dogs.
Autele told KHNL/KGMB that her dogs, Bindi and Dutch, loved going to their ranch.
“They saw the truck come home from work, and they knew they were going to the ranch,” Autele said. “They happily jumped in the truck. That was their happy place and our happy place. But since this has happened, there’s no joy anymore.”
Autele and her husband, Elmer Acera, said their pups chased a mongoose onto a neighboring property in August while Acera was feeding their horses when the shooting happened.
“As I was walking down, I heard a gunshot and then a dog yell,” Acera said. “And then a few seconds later, I heard another gunshot and another dog yelp. And then I immediately thought, ‘oh no, I hope it’s not them.’”
Acera said he ran to the neighboring property to find his animals dead on the ground. He said his neighbor told him the dogs were messing with his horses, so he shot them.
“They have been around horses before, and their breed is not aggressive,” Autele said.
According to criminal defense lawyer Victor Bakke, people can defend themselves and their pets from other animals using reasonable force.
“They would be allowed to use force in a reasonable amount necessary to address the danger presented by the dogs,” Bakke said. “So they could hit them with a stick, kick them to get away. But pulling out a gun and shooting the dogs, unless there was a strong reason to believe that the dogs were likely to injure or kill the horse seriously, would be an abuse of force.”
The family said the man who shot their dogs is a parolee, and they were called to give a statement to the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
Documents showed that man was taken into custody the same day for violating his parole. However, the couple said they hope he would be charged for killing their family pets.
“I don’t want this case just shoved under a desk because they’re just dogs,” Acera said. “They’re not just dogs. They were our family.”
Bakke said the man could face a felony for unjustifiably shooting the dogs.
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Pop up showers possible today. The rest of Labor Day Weekend looks dreary.
Temps will be cooling down next week.
Labor Day weekend is upon us and today will be a pretty nice day for most of us. Through the rest of the afternoon, we could see a few pop-up storms though nothing widespread.
Overnight tonight we will stay pretty dry with partly cloudy conditions. Lows will be sitting in the low 60s. We will be a little muggier tonight than we have been the past few nights as more rain inches closer into the area.
Tomorrow we will see scattered thunderstorms throughout the day. Most of the rain will pop up after lunchtime. The greatest chance to see rain will be during the early evening. Cloud cover will be pretty heavy over the next week or so beginning on Sunday, so take advantage of the sun today while we have it. Highs tomorrow will be sitting in the upper 70s. Some of the rain tomorrow could be heavier as well.
Labor Day itself might outdo Sunday as the wettest day this holiday weekend, Widespread rain will be moving into the area Sunday night into Monday, and we will see some lingering storms through the evening.
Looking ahead, we will see showers and thunderstorms in the forecast the rest of the week.
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Get to know Jonathan Wentzel, the Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week
After winning a regional championship at No. 1 singles last year, Jonathan Wentzel is off to another strong start for the Sandusky boys tennis team.
The senior was voted Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week on Thursday. He was the medalist in No. 1 singles at the Sandusky Invitational on Aug. 26. He won his matches by scores of 8-1, 9-8 (11-9) and 8-2. Sandusky placed first with 46 points.
The Times Herald recently caught up with Wentzel to learn more about him.
Times Herald: How long have you been playing tennis?
Jonathan Wentzel: I started in ninth grade. But I went to the tennis clinic that the school offered since sixth grade.
TH: What makes you such a talented player?
Wentzel: I'm usually pretty fit. I can run down the court pretty well and get to shots. I've got a pretty good handle on spin. I've had that ever since I started where I can put a lot of spin on the ball.
TH: Who is your favorite athlete and why?
Wentzel: Probably Coco Gauff. She's American, she's a really good tennis player and she's really young, too. Which is cool because she's only a year older than me and she's playing in the finals of grand slams. She keeps her composure really well and is really nice. That's someone that I think everyone can learn from.
TH: What is something you enjoy doing outside of tennis?
Wentzel: Definitely anything to do with music. So singing, dancing and I really like percussion and the saxophone. My main instrument is percussion and I also do saxophone in the school's jazz band.
TH: What goal do you have for the rest of the season?
Wentzel: Our team has a really good shot at doing well at regionals and making it to states. So that would be the second time in a row, which I think would be a huge accomplishment for the program. For me, I can just win as many matches as I can at regionals. It would be nice to make the finals or win. But if I can just do the best I can to help the team get enough points to make states, that would be huge.
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Drug bust: Officers seize $4.2 million in cocaine at U.S.-Mexico border
LAREDO, Texas (Gray News) - Officers at the U.S.-Mexico border say they busted another large cocaine shipment attempting to enter the country this week.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, field operation officers at a port of entry in Laredo seized cocaine valued at $4.2 million within a tractor-trailer on Tuesday.
“Our frontline officers have displayed an unparalleled commitment to CBP’s priority border security mission, seizing a fourth significant cocaine load in the cargo environment this week,” said Laredo Port of Entry Director Alberto Flores.
Authorities said Tuesday’s bust was at the World Trade Bridge and involved a tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of plastic ethylene sheets. Officers referred the tractor-trailer for a secondary inspection, where 209 packages containing 545 pounds of alleged cocaine were discovered.
The agency said the narcotics had an estimated street value of $4.2 million.
“These seizures illustrate the gravity of the narcotics threat we are facing and the effective application of CBP officer inspections experience, resources and technology,” Flores said.
The narcotics were seized and officials said the incident was under further investigation.
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Laramie junior Dominic Eberle placed fifth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Eberle ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 33.5 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
Laramie junior Addison Forry placed 12th at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday morning at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Forry finished the 5-kilometer race in 20 minutes, 14.7 seconds. The Lady Plainsmen were ninth in the 23-team field.
Laramie senior Meyer Smith, center, placed eighth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Smith ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 51 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
Laramie junior Dominic Eberle placed fifth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Eberle ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 33.5 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
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Laramie junior Addison Forry placed 12th at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday morning at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Forry finished the 5-kilometer race in 20 minutes, 14.7 seconds. The Lady Plainsmen were ninth in the 23-team field.
Laramie senior Meyer Smith, center, placed eighth at the Wyoming Invitational on Saturday at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne. Smith ran the 5-kilometer course in 16 minutes, 51 seconds. The Plainsmen won the meet with 86 points, putting two runners in the top 10.
LARAMIE — The Laramie High boys proved they are the top long-distance running team in the region at the large Wyoming Invitational.
The high school races Saturday morning on a 5-kilometer course at Little America Golf Course in Cheyenne featured packed fields with 24 boys teams and 23 for the girls from around Wyoming and Colorado.
The LHS boys had a low of 86 points. Cheyenne Central was second at 115 and Niwot was third at 121.
The Plainsmen placed two runners inside the top 10 in a field that had 222 runners. Junior Dominic Eberle was fifth in 16 minutes, 33.5 seconds and senior Meyer Smith was eighth in 16:51.0. Resurrection Christian sophomore Jackson Fagerlin won in 16:17.1.
The three Plainsmen were senior Cooper Kaligis (18th, 17:13.5), sophomore Gideon Moore (26th, 17:26.7) and senior Nathan Martin (29th, 17:31.8).
The Lady Plainsmen were ninth with 263 points. Dakota Ridge won with 116, Central was runner-up at 138 and Natrona County was third with 146.
Junior Addison Forry led the LHS girls when she finished 12th in 20:14.7. Liberty Common junior Isabel Allori won in 17:20.2. There were 234 student-athletes in the girls race.
The next two Lady Plainsmen runners were junior Leah Schabron (26th, 21:01.3) and freshman Libbie Roesler (33rd, 21:19.4).
Up next for the Plainsmen and Lady Plainsmen will be next Saturday at the Chief Nation Invitationals hosted by Wyoming Indian High in Ethete. The races will also serve as an early state preview at the same venue for the culminating state championships on Oct. 22. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/plainsmen-harriers-win-wyoming-invitational/article_8ec4c3d2-2bce-11ed-a4c7-4bb3e6c5f797.html | 2022-09-03T22:08:04Z |
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with fashion designer and entrepreneur Eileen Fisher about her career ahead of her stepping down as CEO of her company.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with fashion designer and entrepreneur Eileen Fisher about her career ahead of her stepping down as CEO of her company.
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When President Biden announced a student loan forgiveness program last week, scammers were poised to prey on desperate borrowers. NerdWallet writer Anna Helhoski shares some red flags to watch for.
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When President Biden announced a student loan forgiveness program last week, scammers were poised to prey on desperate borrowers. NerdWallet writer Anna Helhoski shares some red flags to watch for.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-03/how-to-spot-a-student-loan-scam | 2022-09-03T22:26:54Z |
Rain, shine, dry faucets or low water pressure, in the South the game must go on.
Some residents in Jackson, Miss., have been without running water for days, while others have been under a boil water notice for more than a month. But unreliable water has been a way of life in Jackson for years and that wasn't enough to stop football fans from seeing the season open between two division III Jackson schools — Millsaps College, playing as the home team, and Belhaven University as the away team.
Players' family members drove in from out of state to support their sons. They also brought with them cases of water after hearing about the on-and-off water pressure in the dorms. Flooding of the Pearl River, which cuts through Jackson, led to the city's main water treatment plant failing and a scramble for clean water as the system lost pressure.
Millsaps College said Friday night that they had good water pressure. But it's been fluctuating, so the school brought in portable toilets and mobile shower units just in case they need to be rolled out.
Once the game started, it was easy to forget about the water crisis. The away bleachers sat hundreds of fans wearing Belhaven's green and gold. A blue Powerade sat under one man's sneaker while the concession stand sold condensation-covered Dasani water bottles for $3. On the field, benches were lined with classic green and yellow Gatorade squeeze bottles.
The rare reminder of the city's water woes came when the game's announcer thanked Infinite Insurance for providing 37,000 bottles of water for students and players.
Belhaven freshman Alyssa Pearson came to support her fellow Belhaven athletes after her soccer team beat Sul Ross State University earlier in the day. Water's been a non-issue during the game, though the other night it was a problem post-game — after wrapping up play she was ready for a quick shower, but found her dorm no longer had any water pressure. She went off-campus to clean up.
In Acworth, Ga., where Pearson's from, boil water notices aren't the norm like in Jackson. It's been a tough education — not enough to make her consider transferring, but she has been learning what it's like to brush her teeth with bottled water and wonder just what else is coming out of the shower head.
"I have no idea if my toilet is going to flush or not today," Pearson said.
Dry toilet lines are new for Belhaven senior Izzy Erickson, but boil water notices have been a constant of her four years here. She's not planning on letting the crisis ruin her senior year, but she's ready to be done with Jackson.
"I know I won't be living here after college, so I guess I have that to look forward to," Erickson said.
Other seniors give the low water pressure a shoulder shrug — just another chance to embrace the Belhaven edict of overcoming adversity. One baseball player lives off campus and lets friends enjoy his working shower when the dorm's water flow is more of a drip.
Jackson State University senior Patrick Powe Jr. spends his free time delivering water to residents living in Jackson's affordable housing communities — many residents either don't have a car to get to the drive-through water distribution sites or can't afford to spend the gas waiting potentially hours for the pick-up.
Tonight, he's in the stands supporting his former high school teammate playing for Belhaven, which won the game 49-1. He's had to deal with water issues all his life but part of what makes this crisis different is how long it's lasting. Some residents have been under a boil water notice for a month and there's no timeline for repairs. But Powe said even if the city's water is still undrinkable for Jackson State's first home game Sept. 17, he'll still be there at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium cheering on his team.
"I'm still going to be in the Vet, Jackson State from head to toe, cheering our boys on," he said.
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With so much wear and tear on our bodies, a little prevention goes a long way towards preventing injuries. Life Kit presents tips on improving our posture, with stretches from a physical therapist.
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With so much wear and tear on our bodies, a little prevention goes a long way towards preventing injuries. Life Kit presents tips on improving our posture, with stretches from a physical therapist.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristi P. Fedinick, Executive Director of the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, about her research into water violations in predominantly communities of color.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristi P. Fedinick, Executive Director of the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, about her research into water violations in predominantly communities of color.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-03/the-link-between-water-quality-and-social-inequality | 2022-09-03T22:27:13Z |
TV review: 'The Patient' NPR | By Eric Deggans Published September 3, 2022 at 3:29 PM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Flipboard Listen • 3:35 FX's new original series for Hulu, The Patient, features Steve Carell as Alan Strauss, a therapist kidnapped by a new patient who turns out to be a serial killer. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-03/tv-review-the-patient | 2022-09-03T22:27:19Z |
President Biden warns that there are threats to American democracy taking shape at the state level. NPR's Michel Martin discusses how and why with political scientist Jacob Grumbach.
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President Biden warns that there are threats to American democracy taking shape at the state level. NPR's Michel Martin discusses how and why with political scientist Jacob Grumbach.
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Companies report getting overwhelmed with student loan refund requests
(CNN) - Student loan service companies are being overwhelmed with refund requests after President Joe Biden’s forgiveness program.
Despite the pandemic pause, many borrowers continued to make student loan payments and are wondering if they can get that money back.
The answer for many is “yes.”
While most of the 42 million people covered by the pause did not make payments, about 9 million kept paying.
It’s not clear how much of the U.S. Department of Education’s $1.6 trillion portfolio of loans would be affected. But many borrowers should be able to get refunds of up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt.
And for Pell grant recipients, the total climbs to 20,000 if they make less than $125,000 a year. The income limit for a married couple is even higher, at a combined total of $250,000 a year.
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Drug bust: Officers seize $4.2 million in cocaine at U.S.-Mexico border
LAREDO, Texas (Gray News) - Officers at the U.S.-Mexico border say they busted another large cocaine shipment attempting to enter the country this week.
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, field operation officers at a port of entry in Laredo seized cocaine valued at $4.2 million within a tractor-trailer on Tuesday.
“Our frontline officers have displayed an unparalleled commitment to CBP’s priority border security mission, seizing a fourth significant cocaine load in the cargo environment this week,” said Laredo Port of Entry Director Alberto Flores.
Authorities said Tuesday’s bust was at the World Trade Bridge and involved a tractor-trailer hauling a shipment of plastic ethylene sheets. Officers referred the tractor-trailer for a secondary inspection, where 209 packages containing 545 pounds of alleged cocaine were discovered.
The agency said the narcotics had an estimated street value of $4.2 million.
“These seizures illustrate the gravity of the narcotics threat we are facing and the effective application of CBP officer inspections experience, resources and technology,” Flores said.
The narcotics were seized and officials said the incident was under further investigation.
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Eileen Fisher, a leader in slow fashion, ends a chapter Published September 3, 2022 at 4:29 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 10:16 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with fashion designer and entrepreneur Eileen Fisher about her career ahead of her stepping down as CEO of her company. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/eileen-fisher-a-leader-in-slow-fashion-ends-a-chapter | 2022-09-03T23:27:21Z |
When President Biden announced a student loan forgiveness program last week, scammers were poised to prey on desperate borrowers. NerdWallet writer Anna Helhoski shares some red flags to watch for.
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When President Biden announced a student loan forgiveness program last week, scammers were poised to prey on desperate borrowers. NerdWallet writer Anna Helhoski shares some red flags to watch for.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/how-to-spot-a-student-loan-scam | 2022-09-03T23:27:27Z |
Rain, shine, dry faucets or low water pressure, in the South the game must go on.
Some residents in Jackson, Miss., have been without running water for days, while others have been under a boil water notice for more than a month. But unreliable water has been a way of life in Jackson for years and that wasn't enough to stop football fans from seeing the season open between two division III Jackson schools — Millsaps College, playing as the home team, and Belhaven University as the away team.
Players' family members drove in from out of state to support their sons. They also brought with them cases of water after hearing about the on-and-off water pressure in the dorms. Flooding of the Pearl River, which cuts through Jackson, led to the city's main water treatment plant failing and a scramble for clean water as the system lost pressure.
Millsaps College said Friday night that they had good water pressure. But it's been fluctuating, so the school brought in portable toilets and mobile shower units just in case they need to be rolled out.
Once the game started, it was easy to forget about the water crisis. The away bleachers sat hundreds of fans wearing Belhaven's green and gold. A blue Powerade sat under one man's sneaker while the concession stand sold condensation-covered Dasani water bottles for $3. On the field, benches were lined with classic green and yellow Gatorade squeeze bottles.
The rare reminder of the city's water woes came when the game's announcer thanked Infinite Insurance for providing 37,000 bottles of water for students and players.
Belhaven freshman Alyssa Pearson came to support her fellow Belhaven athletes after her soccer team beat Sul Ross State University earlier in the day. Water's been a non-issue during the game, though the other night it was a problem post-game — after wrapping up play she was ready for a quick shower, but found her dorm no longer had any water pressure. She went off-campus to clean up.
In Acworth, Ga., where Pearson's from, boil water notices aren't the norm like in Jackson. It's been a tough education — not enough to make her consider transferring, but she has been learning what it's like to brush her teeth with bottled water and wonder just what else is coming out of the shower head.
"I have no idea if my toilet is going to flush or not today," Pearson said.
Dry toilet lines are new for Belhaven senior Izzy Erickson, but boil water notices have been a constant of her four years here. She's not planning on letting the crisis ruin her senior year, but she's ready to be done with Jackson.
"I know I won't be living here after college, so I guess I have that to look forward to," Erickson said.
Other seniors give the low water pressure a shoulder shrug — just another chance to embrace the Belhaven edict of overcoming adversity. One baseball player lives off campus and lets friends enjoy his working shower when the dorm's water flow is more of a drip.
Jackson State University senior Patrick Powe Jr. spends his free time delivering water to residents living in Jackson's affordable housing communities — many residents either don't have a car to get to the drive-through water distribution sites or can't afford to spend the gas waiting potentially hours for the pick-up.
Tonight, he's in the stands supporting his former high school teammate playing for Belhaven, which won the game 49-1. He's had to deal with water issues all his life but part of what makes this crisis different is how long it's lasting. Some residents have been under a boil water notice for a month and there's no timeline for repairs. But Powe said even if the city's water is still undrinkable for Jackson State's first home game Sept. 17, he'll still be there at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium cheering on his team.
"I'm still going to be in the Vet, Jackson State from head to toe, cheering our boys on," he said.
Copyright 2022 Gulf States Newsroom. To see more, visit . | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/in-jackson-miss-football-goes-on-despite-the-water-crisis | 2022-09-03T23:27:33Z |
With so much wear and tear on our bodies, a little prevention goes a long way towards preventing injuries. Life Kit presents tips on improving our posture, with stretches from a physical therapist.
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With so much wear and tear on our bodies, a little prevention goes a long way towards preventing injuries. Life Kit presents tips on improving our posture, with stretches from a physical therapist.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristi P. Fedinick, Executive Director of the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, about her research into water violations in predominantly communities of color.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristi P. Fedinick, Executive Director of the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, about her research into water violations in predominantly communities of color.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/the-link-between-water-quality-and-social-inequality | 2022-09-03T23:27:45Z |
TV review: 'The Patient' By Eric Deggans Published September 3, 2022 at 4:29 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:35 FX's new original series for Hulu, The Patient, features Steve Carell as Alan Strauss, a therapist kidnapped by a new patient who turns out to be a serial killer. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.keranews.org/2022-09-03/tv-review-the-patient | 2022-09-03T23:27:51Z |
President Biden warns that there are threats to American democracy taking shape at the state level. NPR's Michel Martin discusses how and why with political scientist Jacob Grumbach.
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President Biden warns that there are threats to American democracy taking shape at the state level. NPR's Michel Martin discusses how and why with political scientist Jacob Grumbach.
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Companies report getting overwhelmed with student loan refund requests
(CNN) - Student loan service companies are being overwhelmed with refund requests after President Joe Biden’s forgiveness program.
Despite the pandemic pause, many borrowers continued to make student loan payments and are wondering if they can get that money back.
The answer for many is “yes.”
While most of the 42 million people covered by the pause did not make payments, about 9 million kept paying.
It’s not clear how much of the U.S. Department of Education’s $1.6 trillion portfolio of loans would be affected. But many borrowers should be able to get refunds of up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt.
And for Pell grant recipients, the total climbs to 20,000 if they make less than $125,000 a year. The income limit for a married couple is even higher, at a combined total of $250,000 a year.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/03/companies-report-getting-overwhelmed-with-student-loan-refund-requests/ | 2022-09-03T23:33:57Z |
Police: Man detained in vehicle of interest after woman abducted while jogging
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - A man has been detained by the Memphis Police Department after officials say they found a vehicle of interest connected to a missing jogger.
On Saturday, Memphis police said a vehicle was located and the man inside was detained.
This announcement comes a day after 34-year-old Eliza Fletcher was reportedly forced into a GMC Terrain while out for a jog near the University of Memphis campus.
Police said they have found items belonging to the woman, a smashed phone and water bottle, but haven’t yet found her.
Authorities said Fletcher is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighed about 137 pounds. She has blond hair and green eyes and was last seen wearing a pink jogging top and purple/blue running shorts with her hair in a bun.
The University of Memphis said it sent students an alert about a woman who had been kidnapped around 4:30 a.m. on Friday.
Officers said Fletcher frequently jogged in the area and was approached by an unknown person that morning and forced into a dark-colored SUV.
Friends said Fletcher is known as an avid runner and is a mother of two children. She also teaches at St. Mary Episcopal School.
According to the Associated Press, Fletcher’s family has offered a $50,000 reward for information in the case.
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Updated September 3, 2022 at 6:48 PM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has delayed any new launch attempt for the Artemis moon mission until at least Sept. 19 after scrapping a planned launch on Saturday.
The decision on Saturday morning was the second time in a week the launch had been postponed.
The official scrub announcement from Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson came around 11:19 a.m. ET after several unsuccessful attempts to stop a leak of liquid hydrogen fuel.
Officials announced Saturday afternoon that they wouldn't attempt another launch during the current launch period, which ends on Tuesday. Instead they said the earliest they could try for another launch would be late September.
"We do not launch until we think it's right," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.
The space agency's first effort to launch this rocket had to be scuttled on Monday morning after a sensor indicated that one of the rocket's four engines didn't seem to be cooling down to the proper temperature of approximately minus-420 degrees Fahrenheit.
After studying the problem and troubleshooting, officials said it's clear the engine was actually fine and a sensor was giving a false temperature reading. "We know we had a bad sensor," said John Honeycutt, program manager for this rocket at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Then on Saturday, as crews worked to fuel up the rocket, they repeatedly detected a liquid hydrogen leak that caused them to stop and start the fueling process several times.
NASA made three unsuccessful attempts to repair the leak before falling so far behind schedule that Blackwell-Thompson ultimately waived off the launch.
Speaking Saturday afternoon, Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said the hydrogen transfer line was inadvertently overpressurized but suggested it was too early to tell if that was the cause of the leak.
Officials said they would have to roll the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building unless they could get a waiver to remain on the launchpad until the next attempt.
It wasn't the first time hydrogen leaks have bedeviled efforts to fuel this rocket. Similar ones appeared during dress rehearsals and the first try at launch, though officials described the leak on Saturday as much larger. NASA officials are now studying the problem and discussing next steps.
Artemis comes a half century after the last moon landing
It's been almost 50 years since the space agency last launched a vehicle designed to carry people to the moon. NASA has named its new moon program Artemis, after the twin sister of the Greek god Apollo, and has vowed to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface.
No astronauts will be on board the Artemis rocket during its long-anticipated first mission, but this flight will be a critical test of how NASA's new vehicle will perform in space and during the fiery return to Earth.
Once this rocket successfully lifts off, it will send a crew capsule called Orion on a journey to orbit the moon, coming within about 60 miles of the lunar surface. After more than five weeks, it will return home and splash down in the Pacific Ocean.
The next flight of this rocket will carry people, but it isn't scheduled until 2024. The agency is targeting a 2025 moon landing — although most space watchers expect delays, as this rocket is already years behind its original schedule. Congress had wanted it to fly in 2016, just five years after NASA retired its aging fleet of space shuttles.
Nelson said on Saturday that despite the most recent Artemis 1 delays, NASA was still planning to launch Artemis 2 in 2024 and Artemis 3 in 2025.
Critics say the Artemis program will be too expensive to be sustainable if NASA depends on this rocket and capsule, which come with a hefty price tag. NASA's inspector general has said that each of the first few flights will cost more than $4 billion, and that doesn't include billions of dollars in development costs.
Meanwhile, the private company SpaceX, which currently ferries astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, is developing its own megarocket and space vehicle called Starship. This rocket is expected to have its first flight soon and is designed to be both reusable and inexpensive. NASA has already said it will rely on SpaceX to develop Starship as a lunar lander, to get its astronauts from lunar orbit down to the surface.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will start providing abortions in certain circumstances, even in states where it's illegal or restricted.
The new policy came in response to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which allowed state governments to decide whether to permit abortions.
Since then, a number of states have implemented full bans on the procedure or drastically limited it.
Now, the VA says it's stepping in to offer abortions in order to protect the health and lives of veterans in places where they can no longer access such reproductive care.
Under a new interim final rule, pregnant veterans and VA beneficiaries will be able to get abortions if their life or health would be in danger if the pregnancy went to term. Patients whose pregnancies were the result of rape or incest will also be eligible for abortions.
The department said it would prepare to offer the services in as many places as possible as soon as the rule is published.
"We came to this decision after listening to VA health care providers and Veterans across the country, who sounded the alarm that abortion restrictions are creating a medical emergency for those we serve," Dr. Shereef Elnahal, the VA's undersecretary for health, said in a statement.
"Offering this care will save Veterans' health and lives, and there is nothing more important than that," he added.
The department said determinations of whether a pregnant person's life or health was in danger would be made on a case-by-case basis and involve consultation between VA health care providers and patients.
The department says its employees are able to avoid state restrictions "when working within the scope of their federal employment."
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Gabriel Testerman is seen in a picture provided by the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office. Testerman is a sergeant with the Wyoming Highway Patrol, but has been on administrative leave since May 2 pending a Laramie County criminal investigation, according to WHP. He was arrested Aug. 30.
CHEYENNE — A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper arrested earlier this week is no longer in custody, a Laramie County jail official said Thursday.
Sgt. Gabriel Testerman bonded out Wednesday, Laramie County jail Capt. Don Hollingshead told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Testerman’s bond had been set at 10% of $100,000 at his initial appearance Wednesday in Laramie County Circuit Court, Hollingshead said.
Testerman was arrested Tuesday, according to a WHP news release distributed that day. He was stationed in Cheyenne. He was placed on administrative leave in early May after the agency learned of a Cheyenne Police Department investigation involving him, the news release said.
It’s unclear exactly what Testerman has been charged with. A Laramie County Circuit Court employee said Thursday that they “don’t have any information about that case.” No public documents had been filed in the case as of late Thursday afternoon, according to a WTE records search.
On Wednesday, Cheyenne Police Department Sgt. Kevin Malatesta told the WTE the law limits what the department can say about the case. He cited Wyoming statute 6-2-319(a), which prohibits a public employee from releasing information about an alleged perpetrator before charges are filed in district court.
Wyoming statute 6-2-319 applies to charges of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual assault of a minor and soliciting.
Malatesta said he wasn’t sure why Testerman’s name was included in the Highway Patrol news release, but that “it was probably an attempt for transparency.”
The statute does say that “the actor’s name may be released to the public to aid or facilitate an arrest. This subsection shall not apply if release of the name or information is necessary to enforce an order for protection against the alleged actor.”
“We look at every allegation seriously – we’re investigating this just as we would any other,” Malatesta told the WTE on Wednesday. “The fact that this person is a law enforcement officer does not give them preferential treatment. We do our investigation in the same manner and with the same professionalism.”
On May 2, the Highway Patrol was contacted by the Cheyenne Police Department about an investigation involving a trooper, according to Tuesday’s news release. It said the trooper, Testerman, was immediately removed from service and placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.
WHP spokesperson Sgt. Jeremy Beck said Testerman has been with the agency since August 2005. Beck declined to provide any details about Testerman’s job duties.
An investigation is ongoing. The Highway Patrol is “cooperating fully with the investigation,” the news release said. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/trooper-no-longer-in-custody-at-laramie-county-jail/article_98fd6c38-2ae7-11ed-97dc-53564e84113c.html | 2022-09-04T00:04:29Z |
Jake Johnson, left, and Don Jones make sure the aviator statue, donated by Caren Murray and Edward Murray III as a part of The Capitol Avenue Bronze Project, fits in its stand on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, on the corner of Capitol Avenue and 22nd Street in downtown Cheyenne. The Capitol Avenue Bronze Project was originally conceived by Harvey Deselms, a local art gallery owner and curator of the project. Rhianna Gelhart/Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – The Capitol Avenue Bronze Project will install six new statues downtown here on Tuesday, including four historic figures and four representations of marine and wildlife.
“As Labor Day approaches, Cheyenne has many reasons to be proud," Mayor Patrick Collins said in an announcement Friday. "This community has shown immense pride in remaking the face of downtown and honoring the heritage of the city and the state. I can’t wait to see the installation of Major General Grenville Dodge, the founder of Cheyenne."
In addition to Maj. Gen. Dodge, the Bronze Commission is also installing statutes that highlight Wyoming’s contribution to arts and letters: Mary O’Hara, who wrote one of her most famous novels outside of Cheyenne on the Remount Ranch; J.E. Stimson, who captured the most iconic photographs of people and places in Wyoming; and the explorer John Colter.
The public is welcome to attend. The following statues will be installed beginning at 9 a.m.:
“Major General Grenville Dodge, Founder of Cheyenne”
Artist: Gaudalupe Barajas
Location: The Southwest corner of Capitol Ave. and Lincolnway
Donor: Larry & Kim Sutherland
“Mary O’Hara”
Artist: Joel Turner
Location: Southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and 20th Street
Donor: Paul & Carla Bankes, Matt & Stephanie Seebaum, and Pat Spieles, in memory of Carol McMurry | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/capitol-avenue-bronze-project-to-install-six-statues-tuesday/article_b13da43a-2b09-11ed-8e9c-2366741f99b7.html | 2022-09-04T00:04:35Z |
Police: Man detained in vehicle of interest after woman abducted while jogging
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - A man has been detained by the Memphis Police Department after officials say they found a vehicle of interest connected to a missing jogger.
On Saturday, Memphis police said a vehicle was located and the man inside was detained.
This announcement comes a day after 34-year-old Eliza Fletcher was reportedly forced into a GMC Terrain while out for a jog near the University of Memphis campus.
Police said they have found items belonging to the woman, a smashed phone and water bottle, but haven’t yet found her.
Authorities said Fletcher is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighed about 137 pounds. She has blond hair and green eyes and was last seen wearing a pink jogging top and purple/blue running shorts with her hair in a bun.
The University of Memphis said it sent students an alert about a woman who had been kidnapped around 4:30 a.m. on Friday.
Officers said Fletcher frequently jogged in the area and was approached by an unknown person that morning and forced into a dark-colored SUV.
Friends said Fletcher is known as an avid runner and is a mother of two children. She also teaches at St. Mary Episcopal School.
According to the Associated Press, Fletcher’s family has offered a $50,000 reward for information in the case.
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Friday night's scores
CLASS 4A
Mazama 26, Estacada 14
Henley 22, Seaside 21
Woodburn 42, Klamath Union 14
CLASS 3A
North Valley 16, Lakeview 13
CLASS 1A (8-man)
Lost River 44, Adrian 28
Bonanza 20, Tulelake 14
CLASS 1A (6-man)
Glendale 55, Gilchrist 18
CALIFORNIA
Maxwell 48, Modoc 20
ROUNDUP
Mazama 26, Estacada 14: Tyson Van Gastel threw for two touchdowns and rushed for two more as the visiting Vikings, ranked No. 4 in Class 4A in the state in the preseason coaches' poll, defeated the third-ranked Rangers.
Gastel had two completions in four attempts, both for scores. He hit Tyler Aguiar from 19 yards with 3:53 left in the first quarter to give the Vikings the lead for good and found him again late in the third from 20 yards as Mazama scored 26 consecutive points.
Aguiar had an 85-yard kickoff return after the Rangers scored on their opening drive, leading to Van Gastel's 1-yard touchdown run.
Van Gastel also tallied on a 17-yard run late in the second, giving the Vikings a 19-8 halftime lead. Van Gastel also picked off an Estacada pass.
Trevor Anderson led Mazama with 73 yards rushing on 16 carries. Treyce Horton added 58 yards and Van Gastel had 25, both on seven attempts.
Mason Nowak led the Vikings' defense with seven tackles, including a sack. Brody Hubble had 6½ tackles and an interception and Brandon Monteith made six stops.
Lost River 44, Adrian 28: Nathan Dalton rushed for 240 yards, including touchdowns of 75 and 71 yards in the first quarter, as the visiting Raiders, ranked No. 4 in the Class 1A 8-man preseason coaches' poll, knocked off the top-ranked Antelopes.
The Raiders also avenged a 62-20 loss to Adrian in last year's state semifinals.
Chase McAuliffe completed 4 of 9 passes for 133 yards, including a 82-yard touchdown to Connor Dunlea. McAuliffe also tallied on a 20-yard run and Dunlea returned a kickoff 91 yards for a score. The Raiders' other touchdown came on a 4-yard run by Codey Lyman.
The Raiders, who took a 22-8 lead after the first quarter, amassed 285 yards on the ground.
Lost River limited the Antelopes' Jace Martin to 77 yards on 37 carries.
North Valley 16, Lakeview 13: Benny Alves completed 9 of 13 passes for 85 yards and a touchdown but threw an interception on the Honkers' final drive as they lost their Class 3A debut.
Freshman Hayden Taylor scored the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter for the host Knights and Bryson Teal made the game-saving pick.
Lakeview's Brandon Markus rushed for 91 yards and also had 31 yards receiving.
Bonanza 20, Tulelake 14: Adrian Mojica rushed for 173 yards and two touchdowns and the host Antlers held on for the victory.
Alan Hill was 4-of-6 passing for 85 yards and touchdown pass to W.D. Kness. Austin Seminski led Bonanza with 78 yards receiving and Andres Mojica added 61 yards on the ground.
Brian Perez led the Honkers with 72 yards rushing and Xavier Silva added 64. Tulelake had 214 yards on 30 carries.
Henley High coach Alex Stork adhered to the coaching adage about going for the win on the road.
And it paid off for the Hornets in their season opener Friday night at Seaside.
Shaw Stork threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Owen Cheyne on the final play from scrimmage and Stork than ran in a two-point conversion to give the Hornets, ranked No. 8 in the state in Class 4A in the preseason coaches' poll, a 22-21 victory against the host Seagulls.
Logan Whitlock rushed 14 times for 128 yards and two touchdowns for the Hornets. Stork was 12-of-21 passing for 104 yards and one score.
Seaside led 21-6 until Whitlock scored on a 7-yard run with 1:12 left in the first half, pulling Henley within 21-12 at the intermission. Whitlock also tallied on a 4-yard run in the first quarter after the Seagulls opened the scoring on a 99-yard run. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/friday-night-roundup/article_07bb77ac-2bc7-11ed-a4a2-b776d38f41a8.html | 2022-09-04T01:25:13Z |
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EndZone Week 1: Cheerleaders
Published: Sep. 3, 2022 at 10:01 PM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Cheerleading teams featured in EndZone Week 1.
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HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Cheerleading teams featured in EndZone Week 1.
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EndZone Week 2: Cheerleaders
Published: Sep. 3, 2022 at 10:17 PM EDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Cheerleading teams featured in EndZone Week 2.
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HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Cheerleading teams featured in EndZone Week 2.
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Camping safety tips as people head into the wild Labor Day weekend
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Outdoor activities are popular during summer holiday weekends.
Camping is in-tents, or at least that is what officials at Explore Park say. Since its Blue Ridge Campground rebranding in May, they have seen more than 175 families.
“We’ve had a busy season. We’ve seen a lot of people coming out on the weekends,” said Recreation Specialist Emma Layman.
Whether it’s a small family or a big friend group, the site has different options available.
“We have some small and medium primitive camp sites. We have some large group sites and we also have small raised platform sites along the river. It’s a true primitive experience where we have some tent pads some charcoal grills and picnic tables,” said Roanoke County Parks Recreation and Tourism Marketing Director Alex North.
Layman Outdoor activities are popular during summer holiday weekends.
Layman recommends you over-pack if necessary to make sure you have all the things you need.
“Bring bug spray and plenty of it. Something to strike a match with or a lighter,” explained Layman. “You would want a tent to sleep in and anything you might need over the day. We don’t have any access to water at the campsite.”
Explore Park has a shuttle to help bring in your stuff and take it out. Layman says to double-check what happens around the campfire, and stays at the campfire.
“Just make sure you’re being careful with your fire when you leave your campsite that it’s down to white ash,” added Layman.
They ask all campers to keep dogs on leashes and not feed any of the wildlife in the area.
“You know this is their home so just make sure that you’re staying here as a guest and not interacting with any of the wildlife,” said Layman.
During the day staff monitors the sites and at night there is an emergency camp line available. You can make a reservation online.
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Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT.
The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys.
Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.”
The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, “Higher Ground.”
He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.
Barack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a special Emmy Award in 1956.
Barack Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, “The Audacity of Hope” and “A Promised Land.” Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020.
EGOT refers to a special category of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. To date, 17 people have done it.
The late Chadwick Boseman also won an Emmy for his voice work on Saturday. The “Black Panther” actor won for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios animated show “What If...?”
On the show, Boseman voiced his “Black Panther” character T’Challa in an alternate universe where he becomes Star-Lord from “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
It was one of the last projects for Boseman, who died in 2020 of colon cancer at age 43.
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JMU football fans get ready for first home game of the season
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) -Purple and gold covered James Madison University’s campus as the Dukes get ready for JMU football to make its return to Harrisonburg.
“We love it here, and it feels like we’re kids again when we are here. We have been coming since 1986 so we have been watching JMU play football for a very long time. I met my husband when I was here and it just feels like home to us,” JMU Alumna Lara Crowlay said.
Alongside the many alumni who come from all over to cheer on the dukes, the students are just as ready for kickoff.
Michelle Toner, now a season ticket holder, came down to support her youngest son, Josh Toner.
“A lot of fun. [I] Can’t say enough about the friendliness of the people and everyone is a total fan of the dukes,” Toner said.
“I want to see the Marching Royal Dukes because I love them,” Jill Eckl said.
“Just the excitement that is going to come from being in the Sunbelt and the new conference. It is just the energy, it is going to be amazing,” Crowlay said.
Joining the Sunbelt was not the only celebration going on. After having to cancel their wedding several times because of COVID, these Dukes had a reception before the game in front of...“Friends that became family,” Crowlay said.
“My sister went here, my daughter went here, my brother-in-law went here, so it is family and our friends who did become family,” Eckl said.
For more information on JMU Athletics, click here.
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Montpelier kicks off new tour for the community
ORANGE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - On September 3, Montpelier kicked off a new tour in which visitors are able to explore the East Woods.
For the first time, people can now enter the East Woods to learn more about its previously hidden plantation landscape and the enslaved community who lived and worked at Montpelier.
“We’re about to see the full story of Montpelier that has never been told,” said James French, chairman of the Montpelier Foundation.
September is Constitution Month at Montpelier, and Montpelier is celebrating by changing its approach and opening new areas to explore.
“We are widening the lens of the things that we look at here at Montpelier to include all of the information that is still here, but that is invisible and that lies in the ground,” Montpelier Foundation CEO Elizabeth Chew said.
“In the fields in the woods that we’re going into today, there used to be large fields. They’ve grown over with trees over the last few centuries, but beneath those trees and beneath the ground, lies data in the landscape that has lied undisturbed for centuries,” French said.
The tour aims to tell the stories of people who lived on the lands the lands surrounding Montpelier, and of their contributions that are still used today.
“Less known are the engineering abilities of enslaved Americans who for example, engineered irrigation trenches that to this day run clear, as well as engineered roads that heavy trucks can drive on to this day,” Chew said.
Montpelier hopes these new tours will provide visitors with a deeper understanding of history.
“The country in many ways is divided, and we feel that through a full acknowledgement of history, we can bring people together, and that’s what we really want to do here,” French said.
If you would like more information or any other activities Montpelier has to offer, here is a link to their website.
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Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT.
The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys.
Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.”
The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, “Higher Ground.”
He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.
Barack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a special Emmy Award in 1956.
Barack Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, “The Audacity of Hope” and “A Promised Land.” Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020.
EGOT refers to a special category of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. To date, 17 people have done it.
The late Chadwick Boseman also won an Emmy for his voice work on Saturday. The “Black Panther” actor won for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios animated show “What If...?”
On the show, Boseman voiced his “Black Panther” character T’Challa in an alternate universe where he becomes Star-Lord from “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
It was one of the last projects for Boseman, who died in 2020 of colon cancer at age 43.
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WyoSports
LARAMIE – After taking a 38-6 thrashing at the hands of Illinois in the season opener, the University of Wyoming football team was hungry for an opportunity to prove that wasn’t who the Cowboys were going to be this year.
Staring down a 10-point deficit with the clock winding down in the fourth quarter, they received a chance to do just that Saturday afternoon. The Pokes delivered, storming back to beat Tulsa 40-37 in double-overtime at War Memorial Stadium.
Sophomore kicker John Hoyland drilled a career-long 55-yard field goal with 10:53 remaining to cut the deficit to seven, a moment UW coach Craig Bohl described as the turning point in the game. Junior quarterback Andrew Peasley then hit sophomore receiver Joshua Cobbs in stride up the right sideline for a 51-yard touchdown to tie the game with 6:19 left.
The teams swapped field goals in the first overtime, and Hoyland added another in the second. Tulsa proceeded to miss a game-tying attempt from 43 yards, sending the UW sideline streaming onto the field in celebration.
“We got down by 10, and we talked about believing,” Bohl said. “We had gone a couple three-and-outs, and we came up with a couple plays. I went down and I talked to John, and I knew where we were at on the field. I said, ‘OK, John,’ and he looked at me with a straight face and said, ‘Coach, I’ve got you.’
“He nailed it, which was pretty impressive. There was electricity that spread along the sidelines, because now it was a one-possession game, and a 55-yard field goal is pretty spectacular. Then things just began to go.”
Peasley, who was 5 of 20 for 30 yards and an interception in his UW debut, rebounded in a massive way to help lead the Cowboys to victory. The Utah State transfer completed 20 of 30 passes for 256 yards – the most by a UW quarterback since 2020 – and two touchdowns with no interceptions, while posting a passer rating of 160.3.
Bohl started to get emotional at his postgame news conference when discussing Peasley’s performance, as well as the criticism he received after the Illinois game.
“I have news for you guys, he ain’t got no six-figure NIL deal,” Bohl said. “He’s playing for Wyoming because he loves it.”
Peasley noted that it felt good to bounce back from a rough performance in the season opener, but quickly turned the topic to his teammates and what the win means for the Pokes as a whole.
UW had eight different players record catches, with Cobbs leading the team with five receptions for 77 yards. Sophomore receiver Will Pelissier added 67 yards on three catches, scoring his first career touchdown on a 48-yard strike from Peasley just before halftime, and adding 19 rushing yards on two carries. Sophomore tight end Parker Christensen had four receptions for 45 yards, as his position group saw their targets increase to six from just two the previous week.
“I transferred schools, and there were a lot of expectations for myself,” Peasley said. “(Bohl) knew that, and when you go 5 for 20 and kind of get your butt whooped in the season opener, it was tough for me. I just told everyone that we have to bounce back as a team. (Through) all this adversity, all through the week we were just grinding, and I feel like that showed today.
“There are always things we still need to work on. We’re going to watch film, and we’re going to be like, ‘Why did we do this, why did we do that?’ So there is still more to improve on, but overall, the offense and the defense, we all just took it to another level. We learned from our mistakes, and now we’re here.”
In last week’s loss to Illinois, the Cowboys fell behind on the second play from scrimmage. This time, it was UW that found the scoreboard almost instantly.
On the second play of the opening drive, sophomore defensive tackle Jordan Bertagnole sacked Tulsa quarterback Davis Brin near the 20-yard line, forcing a fumble. Junior defensive tackle Cole Godbout attempted to scoop up the loose ball and it bounced into the end zone, where sophomore linebacker Easton Gibbs pounced on it to put the Pokes up 7-0 just 37 seconds into the contest.
“We talked about coming out fast and finishing stronger than we did last week, and I think we did that well today,” Gibbs said. “It was big for us to jump on them fast. We talked about (how) it’s a momentum game, so to do that today felt really nice and got us on the right page.”
The defense forced another turnover with the game on the line in the closing moments of the fourth quarter.
UW appeared set to score the go-ahead touchdown, with a first-and-goal at the 7-yard line and less than two minutes on the clock. However, junior running back Titus Swen fumbled and Tulsa recovered, setting the Golden Hurricane up with the chance to deliver a game-winning drive.
Brin connected with Keylon Stokes for what would have been a 33-yard gain and third-down conversion, but sophomore cornerback Cam Stone delivered a jarring hit to knock the ball loose. Sophomore nickelback Keonte Glinton recovered to give the Pokes one last shot to win it in regulation, but Hoyland’s 44-yard attempt in the final seconds bounced off the top of the right upright.
“(Stone) has been a tremendous player over the past couple years for us, and he’s going to be an outstanding player for us,” Bertagnole said. “You always make mistakes throughout the game, and you’re never going to play a perfect game. Seeing him bounce back from some of the mistakes that he made ... just seeing him do that, and then coming up with that huge play, it took a lot of weight off our shoulders when we were turning in pursuit and saw him just hit stick to knock the ball out.”
Although the Pokes were out-gained 521-399, the defense allowed just 61 rushing yards on 32 carries, with Bertagnole, sophomore linebacker Shae Suiaunoa, sophomore defensive end DeVonne Harris and redshirt freshman defensive end Braden Siders each recording one sack. On the other side of the ball, the Cowboys did not allow a sack for the second straight week.
UW knows it has areas to improve, and cannot get satisfied after just one win. As they do every week, the Pokes plan to turn the page after 24 hours, and refocus for next weekend’s showdown with Northern Colorado.
On Saturday, though, they made sure to enjoy the moment.
“I need to learn the song,” Peasley said. “I probably shouldn’t say that, but it was good. No one was surprised. It was kind of like, ‘I told you,’ This is who we are, this is what we’ve been doing, and that’s why last week was such a disappointment to everyone.
“We knew we were better than that, so as a team, it’s probably the best feeling in the world. Just coming into the locker room and looking at one another, it’s all love. The stadium was rocking.”
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Community members gather in front of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office in honor of Khaleesi Cuthriell
AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) -“It has been a year since they realized that Khaleesi was missing and I think it is very important to keep her story out there in hopes that someone eventually comes forward and tells the truth about what happened to her,” Erin Landes said.
Landes and other community members held a vigil in front of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday in honor of Khaleesi Cuthriell.
The three-year-old was reported missing this time last year. She was known to be in the care of Candi Royer and Travis Brown, both have since been charged with several felonies in regards to her disappearance.
The group heard from a local pastor and collected Journey Bags to be donated to children in foster care in her honor. Landes says she wants the community to remember that she matters.
“We have to be her voice, not to forget about her,” Landes added.
“Khaleesi’s story needs to be out there,” Alex Sprouse said. “It needs to be heard.”
“We will never stop looking for Khaleesi, we may not all be blood but we all stand here in faith that Khaleesi is going to be found,” Katherine Clinedinst said.
The Journey Bags will be taken to Foster Love Ministries in Waynesboro.
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Gameday Coverage: Dukes dazzle in FBS debut with 44-7 win over Middle Tennessee
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - James Madison dominated Middle Tennessee in the Dukes’ FBS debut Saturday night.
The Dukes defeated the Blue Raiders, 44-7, in front of 23,074 fans at Bridgeforth Stadium. JMU racked up 548 yards of total offense while limiting Middle Tennessee to just 125 yards on 61 plays.
Colorado State transfer quarterback Todd Centeio made his debut as the Dukes’ starter. He tossed a career-high six touchdown passes and rushed for 110 yards. Centeio completed 21-of-33 passes for 287 yards. Kris Thornton hauled in 12 catches for 155 yards and three touchdowns while Reggie Brown caught five passes for 78 yards and two scores.
JMU rushed for 261 yards as a team. Percy Agyei-Obese racked up 82 yards on 15 carries.
James Madison was led on defense by Jailin Walker, who had a team-high eight tackles. Taurus Jones racked up seven stops and 2.5 tackles for loss. Jamree Kromah had two sacks and 2.5 tackles for loss in his JMU debut after transferring from Rutgers. The Dukes registered 13 tackles for loss as a team.
JMU (1-0 overall) returns to action next Saturday when the Dukes host FCS opponent Norfolk State for a 4 p.m. kickoff.
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Oregon Tech battled back from a two-set deficit to force a winner-take-all finale, but Lewis-Clark State outlasted the Lady Owls in a 150-minute marathon to open Cascade Collegiate Conference volleyball play Friday night at Danny Miles Court.
The Warriors (7-1, 2-0 CCC) claimed the 30-28, 25-20, 22-25, 20-25, 15-12 win – rallying from a 7-3 deficit in the final set.
“It’s never easy being down two sets and the easy thing to do is cash in your chips,” OIT coach Ken Murczek said. “I am proud that we played at a higher level in the third and fourth sets and felt that we had some good momentum going into the fifth. Leading 8-5 at the switch, I thought we were in a good spot, but unfortunately made a couple costly errors and opened the door and came out on the wrong side of it.”
Three consecutive kills from Kaylin Talonen gave the Lady Owls (3-4, 0-1) the 7-3 lead in Set 5 and had a three-point edge at the change-over. LC countered with eight of the next 10 points, including two key blocks at the net and a service ace, to take control and claim the win.
Set 1 featured 18 ties – with Tech having three set points and LC having two, before an OIT hitting error gave the visitors the early win. The Warriors bolted to an 8-1 lead in Set 2, only to see Paige Tevelde record back-to-back aces, drawing the Owls even at 11-11. OIT trailed 19-18 late, but a service error and two LCSC aces keyed a 6-2 run to end the period.
OIT powered their way through Set 3 and Set 4 – taking a 13-6 lead in the third frame behind three kills from Savanna Sterck. The visitors closed within 23-21, but a Sterck kill, followed by a Molly Grace spike ended the set. OIT rolled in Set 4, turning a 6-1 start into a 13-7 lead – as Ashley Ripplinger combined on three consecutive combo-blocks.
Talonen led OIT with 18 kills, while Grace had a career-high 15 kills. Sterck added 11 kills and five blocks, Ripplinger had a team-best seven blocks, Courtney Isom recorded 32 assists and four blocks, with Aubrey Kievit logging a match-high 26 digs.
Grecia Ung Enriquez and Lisi Langi each had 16 kills to lead LC, with Channa Hart leading all players with eight blocks. | https://www.heraldandnews.com/sports/oit-roundup-owls-lose-volleyball-opener-in-marathon/article_bb2cf09a-2bef-11ed-8c7b-0340cb914d64.html | 2022-09-04T04:37:26Z |
2 kids killed, 2 in serious condition after Mo. car crash
NEW MADRID, Mo. (KAIT) - Officials say two children were killed and three were injured when their car was hit by an 18-wheeler on a Missouri highway.
According to the preliminary crash report from Missouri State Highway Patrol, a 2004 Ford Expedition failed to yield around 12:10 p.m. Friday and pulled into the path of an 18-wheeler in the northbound lane of Interstate 55. The incident happened a few miles south of Marston, KAIT reports.
The Expedition, which was being driven by 34-year-old Startisha M. Brown, had six passengers from Memphis, Tennessee, five of whom were children ranging in age from 11 to 15. The sixth passenger was 30-year-old Tatrelisha M. Johnson.
Two of the children, an 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy, died from injuries sustained in the crash.
Two other children suffered serious injuries. A 13-year-old girl was taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital by helicopter, and a 15-year-old girl was taken to St. Francis Medical Center by ambulance.
Johnson, Brown, and a 14-year-old girl were all taken by ambulance to the hospital. The latter two are said to have moderate injuries.
The driver of the 18-wheeler, Daniel L. Wiggins of Pineville, Louisiana, was uninjured.
Portageville Fire and Rescue posted a media release of their response to the crash. According to officials, when fire and rescue got to the scene, all seven occupants of the Expedition were trapped. It took first responders over 10 minutes to rescue everyone.
The state highway patrol is investigating the crash.
Copyright 2022 KAIT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.whsv.com/2022/09/04/2-kids-killed-2-serious-condition-after-mo-car-crash/ | 2022-09-04T04:50:48Z |
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