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A Wyoming Department of Transportation news release on the brief closure of the Summit Rest Area, which is near mile marker 323 on Interstate 80 east of Laramie. Screenshot on Thursday from the WYDOT release.
The Summit Rest Area, near mile marker 323 on Interstate 80 east of Laramie. Photo provided Thursday by the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
A Wyoming Department of Transportation news release on the brief closure of the Summit Rest Area, which is near mile marker 323 on Interstate 80 east of Laramie. Screenshot on Thursday from the WYDOT release.
LARAMIE – The Summit Rest Area near mile marker 323 on Interstate 80 east of Laramie is temporarily closed through this Friday, because of facility and parking lot repairs as well as due to deep cleaning.
The closure was to have begun at 6 a.m. on Thursday, according to a Wyoming Department of Transportation news release earlier this week as well as a WYDOT automated email alert on Thursday. WYDOT says this rest stop on I-80 remains closed through Friday while the repairs, cleaning and maintenance are completed.
"Facilities, including restrooms and tourist information areas, will be closed to the public," according to the news release. "Truck parking will remain available while car and RV parking will be closed."
Although the agency's alert said the "rest area is closed until further notice," a WYDOT spokesperson clarified to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle the location is only expected to be shuttered through Friday.
The online version of this report has been updated with a photograph of the rest area, as well as a new final paragraph above clarifying the location is not closed for an indefinite period of time.
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SAN SALVADOR, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the full force of the federal government is ready to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Fiona even as Bermuda and Canada's Atlantic provinces were preparing for a major blast from the Category 4 storm.
Speaking at a briefing with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials in New York, Biden said, “We’re all in this together.”
Biden noted that hundreds of FEMA and other federal officials are already on the ground in Puerto Rico, where Fiona caused an island-wide blackout.
More than 60% of power customers remained without energy on Thursday, and a third of customers were without water — and local officials admitted they could not say when service would be fully restored.
Biden said his message to the people of Puerto Rico who are still hurting from Hurricane Maria five years ago is, “We’re with you. We’re not going to walk away.”
That seemed to draw a contrast with former President Donald Trump, who was widely accused of an inadequate response to Maria, which left some Puerto Ricans without power for 11 months.
The hurricane was expected to still be at Category 4 force overnight when it passes close to Bermuda, where authorities there were opening shelters and announced schools and offices would be closed on Friday.
Fiona's outer bands were already reaching the British territory in the early afternoon.
It's expected to still be large and dangerously potent when it reaches Canada's Atlantic provinces, likely late Friday, as a post-tropical cyclone.
“It’s going to be a storm that everyone remembers when it is all said and done,” said Bob Robichaud, warning preparedness meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre.
Hundreds of people in Puerto Rico remained cut off by road four days after the hurricane ripped into the U.S. territory, and frustration was mounting for people like Nancy Galarza, who tried to signal for help from work crews she spotted in the distance.
“Everyone goes over there,” she said pointing toward crews at the bottom of the mountain who were helping others also cut off by the storm. “No one comes here to see us. I am worried for all the elderly people in this community.”
At least five landslides cover the narrow road to her community in the steep mountains around the northern town of Caguas. The only way to reach the settlement is to climb over thick mounds of mud, rock and debris left by Fiona, whose floodwaters shook the foundations of nearby homes with earthquake-like force.
“The rocks sounded like thunder,” recalled Vanessa Flores, a 47-year-old school janitor. “I’ve never in my life heard that. It was horrible.”
At least one elderly woman who relies on oxygen was evacuated on Thursday by city officials who were working under pelting rain to clear paths to the San Salvador community.
Ramiro Figueroa, 63, said his bedridden 97-year-old bedridden father refused to leave home despite insistence from rescue crews. Their road was blocked by mud, rocks, trees and his sister’s pickup, which was washed down the hill during the storm.
National Guard troops and others brought water, cereal, canned peaches and two bottles of apple juice.
“That has helped me enormously,” Figueroa said as he scanned the devastated landscape, where a river had changed its course and tore up the community.
At least eight of 11 communities in Caguas are completely isolated, said Luis González, municipal inspector of recovery and reconstruction. It's one of at least six municipalities where crews have yet to reach some areas. People there often depend on help from neighbors, as they did following Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm in 2017 that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Miguel Veguilla said that in Maria's aftermath he used picks and shovels to clear debris. But Fiona was different, unleashing huge landslides.
“I cannot throw those rocks over my shoulder,” he said.
Like hundreds of thousands in Puerto Rico, Veguilla has no water or electricity service, but said there is a natural water source nearby.
Danciel Rivera, 31, arrived in rural Caguas with a church group and tried to bring a little cheer by dressing as a clown.
“That’s very important in these moments,” he said, noting that people had never fully recovered from Hurricane Maria. “A lot of PTSD has reared its head these days.”
His huge clown shoes squelched through the mud as he greeted people, whose faces lit up as they smiled at him.
Puerto Rico's government said some 62% of 1.47 million customers remained without power Thursday. A third of customers, or more than 400,000, did not yet have water service.
“Too many homes and businesses are still without power,” Biden said in New York, adding that additional utility crews were set to travel to the island to help restore power in the coming days.
The executive director of Puerto Rico's Electric Energy Authority, Josué Colón, told a news conference that areas less affected by Fiona should have electricity by Friday morning. But officials declined to say when power would be restored to the hardest-hit places and said they were working first to get energy to hospitals and other key infrastructure.
Neither local nor federal government officials had provided an overall estimate of damage from the storm, which dropped up to 30 inches of rain in some areas.
The U.S. center said Fiona had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) on Thursday. It was centered about 305 miles (495 kilometers) west-southwest of Bermuda, heading north-northeast at 20 mph (31 kph).
Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 205 miles (335 kilometers).
Bermuda Premier David Burt sent a tweet urging residents to “take care of yourself and your family. Let’s all remember to check on as well as look out for your seniors, family and neighbors. Stay safe.”
The Canadian Hurricane Centre issued a hurricane watch for extensive coastal expanses of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island.
Hurricanes in Canada are somewhat rare, in part because once the storms reach colder waters, they lose their main source of energy. and become extratropical. Those cyclones still can have hurricane-strength winds, but now have a cold instead of a warm core and no visible eye. Their shape can be different too. They lose their symmetric form and can more resemble a comma.
Fiona so far has been blamed for at least five deaths — two in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
Fiona also hit the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday, but officials there reported relatively light damage and no deaths.
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
Associated Press writers Zeke Miller in Washington, Seth Borenstein in New York, Rob Gillies in Toronto and Maricarmen Rivera Sánchez in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed.
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GREENVILLE, Texas (CN) — A Texas jury acquitted a white police officer Thursday evening of murder in the killing of an unarmed Black man outside of a convenience store with his gun immediately after firing his Taser.
The Hunt County jury deliberated for approximately six hours after hearing eight days of arguments and testimony in the trial of former Wolfe City police officer Shaun Lucas, 24. He was fired by city officials within days of killing Jonathan Price during Lucas’ response to reports of a fight at a Kwik Check store on Oct. 3, 2020.
Lucas had faced up to 99 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Testifying in his own defense, Lucas told jurors Wednesday that Price, 31, approached him outside and asked him how he was before offering his hand to shake. Lucas said he shook to deescalate the situation and get Price “out of my space as easily as I can.”
Lucas claims he fired his Taser at Price after he refused to comply with verbal commands and refused to be detained. Lucas said he wanted to put Price in his patrol car for suspected public intoxication and for possibly being involved in the fight.
Body camera footage played in court this week showed Price refusing to comply with several of Lucas’ commands and was walking away when he was shot with the Taser. Price is seen turning around and appears to reach out to Lucas before he is shot with a pistol.
Lucas claims he used lethal force out of fear Price was reaching for the Taser.
The Texas Rangers charged Lucas with murder within days of the shooting, concluding his actions “were not [objectively] reasonable.”
Defense attorney Robert Rogers, of Dallas, has repeatedly argued his client acted in self-defense due to Price appearing intoxicated and resisting arrest.
“If any of the commands were followed, we would not be here today,” Rogers said during opening arguments last week.
Prosecutors steadfastly disagree that Price was acting aggressive, calling Sergeant Jarred Hayes to testify Monday that Price did not appear aggressive the night of his death. Hayes is one of only two police officers remaining in Wolfe City after Lucas’ firing.
Price’s friend Nicholas Crockett was at the scene that night and told jurors on Monday that Price appeared to be reaching out to catch himself after being shot with the Taser, not reaching out for Lucas.
Price’s mother, Marcella Louis, sued Lucas and Wolfe City three weeks ago in federal court for wrongful death and violations of her son’s Fourth Amendment rights.
“Officer Lucas was not in reasonable fear of serious bodily injury or death at the time that he shot Mr. Price,” her complaint stated. “There was no justification for officer Lucas to use lethal force against Mr. Price.”
Wolfe City is approximately 70 miles northeast of Dallas.
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LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the process by which LA Sheriff's deputies obtained a warrant to search the homes of two government officials was above board and "did not deviate from established processes."
"That puts to bed the issue in whether or not there was irregularity in obtaining the search warrant," Judge William Ryan told an attorney-packed courtroom on Thursday.
The decision was the latest plot point in what already feels like a long saga, even though it began little more than a week ago. The morning of Sept. 14, LA County sheriffs deputies showed up, search warrants in hand, at the homes of County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and Patti Giggans, a member of the sheriff's oversight committee and the head of the nonprofit Peace Over Violence.
Investigators left the two homes with a total of 67 devices and Giggans' car was towed. Deputies also searched the offices of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or Metro, the county's transit agency.
Giggans and Kuehl lambasted Sheriff Alex Villanueva, saying that he was trying to intimidate two outspoken critics. Giggans' attorney, Austin Dove, told the Los Angeles Times, "These are Third World tactics. Vladimir Putin would be impressed.”
Other elected officials spoke out against the searches and seizures. City Councilman Mike Bonin called them "wild, unprecedented and dangerous" and said "an unbalanced and corrupt sheriff with a track record of abusing his power sent armed deputies to raid the homes of two of his critics."
Villanueva, who is in the middle of a tough reelection campaign, has been engaged in a bitter, long-running feud with the County Board of Supervisors and the oversight commission, as well as numerous other elected officials. He has said he recused himself from the investigation.
Sheriff's officials said the searches were part of a long investigation into a series of contracts, worth more than $800,000, given by Metro to Peace Over Violence to operate a hotline for people to report sexual harassment while riding trains and buses. A 2020 story by the local Fox TV affiliate found the hotline was only receiving a handful of legitimate phone calls every year. The story, which relied heavily on a former Metro employee, suggested there was a corrupt arrangement between longtime friends Kuehl and Giggans.
Kuehl has called the allegations "totally bogus." On Monday, the former Metro employee, Jennifer Loew, filed a defamation suit against Kuehl and Giggans.
On Tuesday, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that he was taking over the investigation. Villanueva has expressed approval over that move.
Questions have been raised over how the search warrant was obtained. When sheriff's deputies searched Metro's office of the inspector general in 2021, as part of the same investigation, a different judge, Eleanor Hunter, ordered a special master to make sure attorney-client privilege wasn't being violated. Why had investigators gone and sought a new search warrant from a different judge?
In his ruling Thursday, Judge Ryan found that the investigator, Detective Max Fernandez, had acted properly since Judge Hunter was on vacation when Fernandez sought the new warrant. Coincidentally, Fernandez himself had been on vacation when Hunter made her ruling, and therefore didn't know that a special master was supposed to have been appointed — although the appointment was never made.
Last week, Judge Ryan ordered the sheriff's department to stop looking at all the devices they'd obtained.
Kuehl's attorney, Cheryl O'Connor, asked that the supervisor's devices be "returned immediately," saying that her client had been "hampered" by the seizure and that her 2 million or so constituents had been "disenfranchised."
Judge Ryan flatly refused this request, saying, "They're not going to be returned immediately."
Attorneys for Giggans and Metro made the same request and were denied.
"I may consider it later, I’m just not going to do it today," Ryan told Metro's attorneys, adding: "The trains will still run on time."
"On time-ish," said Metro's lawyer, Robert Dugdale.
A lawyer with the state attorney general's office, Susan O'Connor, asked the court to order the sheriff's department to turn over all materials of the investigation, including everything obtained in the search, within two weeks. A sheriff's department lawyer indicated the department would cooperate, and that seemed to satisfy the judge.
"The sheriff will comply with the attorney general's request, and they can do it within two weeks," the judge said. "If in two weeks you’re not happy, you know where to find me."
Villanueva has said that the fact that Kuehl had advance warning that her home was about to be searched by itself be investigated as a crime. Judge Ryan suggested that he agreed, saying, "It's a very serious allegation, that the supervisor had been tipped off that search was coming. That’s not nothing. It’s a potential felony."
After the hearing, Giggans' attorney Austin Dove said he was "frustrated" the judge had signed off on the search warrant.
"You have a large organization with a 51-year history that’s been crippled seriously by the investigation," Dove said. "The Sheriff is plucking off, one by one, people that are criticizing him."
As for Bonta's office taking over that investigation, Dove called it a "positive" step, adding there would be "more transparency, more integrity."
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities held a traditional military parade Thursday to mark the country's first independence day celebration since French troops departed after nine years of fighting Islamic extremists in its one-time colony.
The festivities, featuring fighter planes flying overhead, came as Mali faces growing condemnation for detaining 46 soldiers from neighboring Ivory Coast who had deployed to provide security for a company contracted by the United Nations.
Malians sang the country's anthem in the streets of Bamako while others played drums. Wearing the red, green and yellow colors of the Malian flag, Souadou Diabate clutched a photo of Col. Assimi Goita, who seized power in Mali two years ago in a coup and has faced mounting international isolation.
“It is in difficult times that great nations are built,” she said. “Mali is a country of patriots and valiant soldiers.”
Goita was joined at the parade by the head of Guinea’s military junta, Col Mamady Doumbouya. In his address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day, Goita laid out his vision for foreign relations.
“Our country is concerned about strengthening its relations with all other countries and participating actively in international life," he said. "But it is important that our partners understand that relations with our state must henceforth be based on the following three principles: respect for Mali’s sovereignty, respect for the strategic choices made by Mali, and the defense of the interests of the Malian people in making specific decisions."
The departure of the last 2,400 French troops from Mali created widespread concern the withdrawal would pave the way for Islamic insurgents to step up their attacks against civilians. Observers question whether the Malian military is capable of protecting towns across the north, which fell under the control of Islamic extremists from 2012 until the French-led military operation started a year later.
Furthering the doubts, a Malian general who has led efforts to fight extremist groups in the Menaka region recently released an audio urging civilians to flee the countryside for the protection of larger communities.
“I ask all those who are in the Djebock area to leave the countryside and go to the cities to be safe. For the moment, this is the solution that must be adopted,” Gen. Alhadj Gamou said in a message directed at the largely nomadic Tuareg community.
Frustration with the attacks initially helped fuel support for Goita, the coup leader, as his junta assured Malians it would do a better job of beating back the insurgents.
Tensions between Goita and the international community have increased, with France deciding to move its forces in Mali to a more welcoming neighbor, Niger.
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Associated Press writer Krista Larson in Dakar, Senegal contributed.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Hydroponically grown crops can be considered organic, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday, upholding a federal judge’s refusal to bar hydroponic growers from using the label.
The Organic Foods Production Act, on the books since 1990, specifies that farmers must submit an organic plan showing that their practices foster “soil fertility” through techniques like proper tillage, crop rotation and manuring.
Along with the Center for Food Safety, some of the nation’s oldest organic farms sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the agency denied their petition requesting a rule that would make hydroponic crops ineligible for organic certification in 2020.
Northern California farmers argue that it took decades to build the farming practices that earned them the right to call their produce organic only to be undercut by hydroponic producers who piggyback on the label without putting in the work. In hydroponic farming, plants grow in sand, gravel or liquid with added nutrients but no soil.
In a March 2021 ruling, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg wrote that he does not read the law as categorically banning all non-soil-grown crops from being labeled “organic.”
In their appeal, the farmers and trade groups argued that because hydroponic crops do not use soil, they cannot as a matter of course comply with the law's requirement that their crop plans “contain provisions designed to foster soil fertility.”
But the USDA interpreted that provision to simply mean that if crops are grown in soil, growers must take steps to protect that soil’s “fertility” and “organic content.”
In a four-page, unpublished memorandum, the panel sided with the USDA’s interpretation and affirmed Seeborg’s ruling.
Their decision comes as little surprise. At oral argument in July, the panel zeroed in on section 6512 of the OFPA, which says, "If a production or handling practice is not prohibited or otherwise restricted, it's permitted."
The panel comprised Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Susan Graber, a Bill Clinton appointee, U.S. Circuit Judge John Owens, a Barack Obama appointee, and U.S. International Trade Judge M. Miller Baker, a Donald Trump appointee sitting by designation.
The Center for Food Safety did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
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The Rangers are intent on adding a big-time starter, and word is they may go for Jacob deGrom. Folks marvel at how MLB’s best pitcher is throwing better than ever off his 13-month layoff, and while there aren’t a lot of teams ready to take a $40 million gamble, the Rangers might.
Rangers baseball president Chris Young wouldn’t address any specific pitching targets but said they “will leave no stone unturned” in their search to upgrade pitching a year after they significantly upgraded offense.
There’s been a lot of speculation about whether the DeLand, Fla., product deGrom prefers to leave New York and go south, though most speculation centers on the Braves. From here it’s hard to see a corporate team taking that risk.
Nolan Arenado is said to love St. Louis so much he will remain with the team despite his opt-out. He bought a house there and appreciates having a great relationship with the front office after Colorado. They could alter his deal, but friends say he’s going nowhere.
The Mets are open to hiring a business person as team president, but depending on applicants may consider a baseball person. Brewers baseball president David Stearns likely remains a person of intrigue.
The Rangers are concentrating on their manager search now but may consider additions to the front office. Will Venable, Brad Ausmus, Luis Rojas, Mark DeRosa, John Gibbons, Joe Maddon, Joey Cora, Walt Weiss, Pat Murphy, Charlie Montoyo, Chris Woodward, Skip Schumaker, Mike Napoli, Mike Shildt and Raul Ibañez are among viable manager candidates league-wide. Venable and Ausmus have connections to Young.
With Scott Harris’ appointment as Tigers president, speculation is he could bring in Jason McLeod, who along with Harris under Theo Epstein helped build the great Cubs teams.
It’s a sad day when the Royals let go baseball president Dayton Moore, a fantastic baseball guy who remains the only true small-market GM to reach two straight World Series and win one. The firing surprised him, too. Expectations there were unrealistic. Moore always joked he was the only GM from Garden City Community College (he also graduated George Mason); the trend is toward Ivy Leaguers. Manager Mike Matheny, who doesn’t seem favored by players, would seem to be in peril now.
Frankie Montas’ MRI was said “clean,” but the Yankees need to get him right. The deadline wasn’t kind to acquiring teams. The Mariners, one team to give up top prospects (they surrendered their Nos. 1, 3 and 5 guys for Luis Castillo), were rewarded. Of the hitters, J.D. Davis has done best (.808 OPS in San Francisco).
Braves rookie Vaughn Grissom is great but isn’t yet seen as long-term starting shortstop. So their target remains re-signing free-agent-to-be Dansby Swanson, now a Gold Glove candidate. Even so, he’s in a tough spot in negotiations as an Atlanta product.
MLB lobbied to get to Canada to lift its vaccine requirement, and was pleasantly surprised to hear news it’s expected to be removed Sept. 30, a plus for teams like the Mets and Phillies with unvaccinated stars.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas appellate court declined to overturn the conviction of a man who stole files from an Arkansas State University financial aid officer while the employee was on his lunch break; an assistant had identified the defendant from surveillance footage and remembered him as expressing interest in applying to the school, but leaving with something he did not have when he had arrived. His actions constituted obstruction of governmental operations.
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AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — Alfred Brown spent a decade on Texas death row because a prosecutor framed him for the murder of a Houston policeman. For that injustice, the state is paying him $2 million. But his attorney argued Thursday that should not preclude him pursuing a federal civil rights lawsuit over his wrongful incarceration.
Brown, then 21, had what he thought was an airtight alibi when police arrested him and two of his friends in April 2003 after a three-man robbery crew shot to death Alfredia Jones, a clerk at a check-cashing store, and Houston policeman Charles Clark, the officer who had rushed to the scene.
Brown, now 40, told police he was at his girlfriend Ericka Dockery’s home at the time of the murders. In fact, he had called her at work from her landline phone to tell her about the shootings after he saw live TV news coverage of them.
But Brown’s friends pinned Officer Clark’s murder on him.
Dockery told a grand jury Brown could not have been involved because of the phone call. But she agreed to cooperate with Harris County prosecutor Daniel Rizzo after she was charged with felony perjury for insisting Brown was innocent and locked up for months in the county jail in downtown Houston, with Rizzo threatening she would go to prison and lose custody of her three daughters if she did not change her story.
With Dockery as his star witness, Rizzo convinced jurors to convict Brown of capital murder and sentence him to death in October 2005.
The truth started to emerge in 2013, when Houston police detective Breck McDaniel found the phone records corroborating Brown’s alibi while cleaning his garage, leading the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to vacate Brown’s conviction and sentence and remand to the trial court.
Brown remained in prison while prosecutors decided whether to retry him. But they moved to dismiss his case for insufficient evidence on June 8, 2015, and later that day Brown was released from custody.
Brown turned his attention to getting compensation from Texas for his imprisonment under the Tim Cole Act. But he had a problem: To qualify, a defendant must secure a finding they are “actually innocent.”
So in June 2017, Brown filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against three Houston police detectives who investigated his case, and prosecutor Rizzo – who by then had retired – alleging they had withheld exculpatory evidence and influenced trial witnesses, resulting his murder conviction. He also claimed Harris County and the city of Houston had unconstitutional policies that led to his conviction.
With Rizzo denying he knew about the exculpatory phone records during Brown’s trial, U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal dismissed him from the federal case after deciding he was protected by prosecutorial immunity.
Nonetheless, Rizzo’s story unraveled during discovery in Brown’s lawsuit. An email surfaced showing Rizzo had received the phone records in May 2003.
Prosecutors then launched an investigation culminating in a determination Brown was in fact actually innocent.
Brown once again applied for wrongful imprisonment compensation from Texas. But state Comptroller Glenn Hegar denied his application and a subsequent one he filed.
Stonewalled by Hegar, Brown asked for relief the Texas Supreme Court, which granted his mandamus petition, ordering Texas to compensate him pursuant to the Tim Cole Act.
Texas agreed to pay Brown around $2 million. Two days before Christmas 2020, Brown received a $980,000 check from the state. It agreed to give him the rest in annuity payments over the rest of his life.
Judge Rosenthal sided with the defendants and dismissed Brown’s case. She found that because Brown had received Tim Cole Act compensation, he was barred from additional recovery through his lawsuit.
Brown appealed to the Fifth Circuit, which asked the Texas Supreme Court to weigh in.
The New Orleans-based appellate court tasked the state justices with answering a certified question: Does the Tim Cole Act bar “maintenance of a lawsuit involving the same subject matter against any governmental units or employees that was filed before the claimant received compensation under that statute?”
Brown’s attorney, Charles Biles of the Dallas firm Steptoe Johnson, told the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday the case is clear-cut: “Despite the amount of briefing in this case, at the end of the day, it hinges on the meaning of five words, ‘may not bring any action.’”
Biles argued it is evident by placing that phrase in the statute, the Texas Legislature only meant to stop people who get Tim Cole Act compensation from then suing local governments and officials they believe are responsible for their incarceration.
Houston city attorney Christy Martin countered the Legislature’s intended meaning is much more expansive. She said it meant to foreclose any related lawsuit, whether filed before or after the claimant received Tim Cole Act funds.
“Bring can mean to put forward. And it’s bring any action. … An action can mean more than just a lawsuit, action can mean causes of action, a claim. If you are bringing any action, you are presenting any claim to any court,” she said.
Justice Evan Young asked Biles why he thinks the Legislature did not just make a mistake by not clarifying it meant to stop wrongfully incarcerated people from double dipping through litigation and the Tim Cole Act.
Biles distinguished Brown’s case from other convictions that stem from honest mistakes, such as prosecutors believing they had the right person until DNA evidence proved their innocence.
“But if a prosecutor has intentionally prosecuted somebody unlawfully, intentionally, the only way for Mr. Brown or any other … person to figure that out is to file a lawsuit,” Biles said.
“How are they going to get the deposition? How else are they going to get the email? It’s the litigation," he added. "So I think it’s very rational to say, ‘Listen what we’re concerned about here is people who take the money and then turn around and sue. We don’t like it.’ But in this case, they’re not so much worried about people who need to sue to get there in the first place.”
Seth Hopkins, a special assistant Harris County attorney, argued Brown had waived his civil rights claims when he cashed the state’s $980,000 check.
But Justice Jimmy Blacklock questioned if the Tim Cole Act violates the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution – which stipulates the Constitution and federal laws take priority over conflicting state laws – by barring pursuit of federal claims.
Hopkins said he preferred to let the Fifth Circuit deal with the supremacy clause and focus on the controversy over the statute’s phrasing. “But if you want to go further we’re certainly happy to brief the issue,” he said.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office filed an amicus brief supporting Houston and Harris County and made arguments for them Thursday.
The nine justices did not say when they would issue a ruling.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When an undersea volcano erupted in Tonga in January, its watery blast was huge and unusual — and scientists are still trying to understand its impacts.
The volcano, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, shot millions of tons of water vapor high up into the atmosphere, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
The researchers estimate the eruption raised the amount of water in the stratosphere — the second layer of the atmosphere, above the range where humans live and breathe — by around 5%.
Now, scientists are trying to figure out how all that water could affect the atmosphere, and whether it might warm Earth’s surface over the next few years.
“This was a once-in-a-lifetime event,” said lead author Holger Voemel, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
Big eruptions usually cool the planet. Most volcanoes send up large amounts of sulfur, which blocks the sun’s rays, explained Matthew Toohey, a climate researcher at the University of Saskatchewan who was not involved in the study.
The Tongan blast was much soggier: The eruption started under the ocean, so it shot up a plume with much more water than usual. And since water vapor acts as a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, the eruption will probably raise temperatures instead of lowering them, Toohey said.
It’s unclear just how much warming could be in store.
Karen Rosenlof, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was not involved with the study, said she expects the effects to be minimal and temporary.
“This amount of increase might warm the surface a small amount for a short amount of time,” Rosenlof said in an email.
The water vapor will stick around the upper atmosphere for a few years before making its way into the lower atmosphere, Toohey said. In the meantime, the extra water might also speed up ozone loss in the atmosphere, Rosenlof added.
But it’s hard for scientists to say for sure, because they’ve never seen an eruption like this one.
The stratosphere stretches from around 7.5 miles to 31 miles (12 km to 50 km) above Earth and is usually very dry, Voemel explained.
Voemel's team estimated the volcano’s plume using a network of instruments suspended from weather balloons. Usually, these tools can’t even measure water levels in the stratosphere because the amounts are so low, Voemel said.
Another research group monitored the blast using an instrument on a NASA satellite. In their study, published earlier this summer, they estimated the eruption to be even bigger, adding around 150 million metric tons of water vapor to the stratosphere — three times as much as Voemel's study found.
Voemel acknowledged that the satellite imaging might have observed parts of the plume that the balloon instruments couldn’t catch, making its estimate higher.
Either way, he said, the Tongan blast was unlike anything seen in recent history, and studying its aftermath may hold new insights into our atmosphere.
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By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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Legal experts see more challenges for Trump in records dispute
Former President Donald Trump’s court battle over presidential records he claims to have declassified was dealt another blow by the 11th Circuit this week and some legal experts doubt the former president will get the legal recourse he seeks.
Grandfathered ownership of banned machine gun part debated at Seventh Circuit
A federal appeals court on Thursday heard arguments in the case of a man who owns banned automatic weapons parts and claims the court should either rule he is allowed to own them because he bought them before they were regulated or that he should be given a grace period to register them and make his ownership legit.
Ninth Circuit finds hydroponic crops can be labeled organic
Hydroponically grown crops can be considered organic, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday, upholding a federal judge’s refusal to bar hydroponic growers from using the label.
Regional
Indiana judge halts enforcement of abortion ban
Indiana’s near-total ban on abortions has been temporarily suspended pending a final decision on whether it violates the state’s constitution.
Chicago’s decadeslong parking privatization contract goes before Seventh Circuit
The Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Thursday challenging Chicago's infamous parking meter privatization deal, in the latest of several legal attempts to oust a billion-dollar corporation that has made street parking spots in the Windy City some of the most expensive in the country.
Dog owners ask appeals court to revive challenge to Iowa city’s pit bull ban
Pit bull owners urged a federal appeals court Thursday to resurrect their suit claiming their constitutional rights are violated by an Iowa city’s ordinance banning possession of the dogs within the city.
Texas death row exoneree asks state justices to OK his federal lawsuit
Alfred Brown spent a decade on Texas death row because a prosecutor framed him for the murder of a Houston policeman. For that injustice, the state is paying him $2 million. But his attorney argued Thursday that should not preclude him pursuing a federal civil rights lawsuit over his wrongful incarceration.
International
Zelenskyy asks world leaders to severely punish Russia
With Russia mobilizing hundreds of thousands of reservists and doggedly escalating the war with its neighbor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging world leaders to severely punish Russia economically, put its leaders on trial for war crimes and strip it of its veto power at the United Nations Security Council.
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(CN) — Exposure to air pollution in the womb and in early childhood has been linked to alterations in the white matter structural connectivity in children's brains, according to a study published Thursday.
To understand the full effects, however, researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) first had to look at how the brain worked. Co-led by ISGlobal researcher and first author Anne-Claire Binter, the team found a connection to the effects of air pollution on white matter microstructure — the stuff that interconnects the various parts of the brain and is a marker of typical brain development.
They published their findings Thursday in the journal Environmental Pollution.
“We know from previous animal and epidemiological studies that air pollutants may affect the brain through neuroinflammation and oxidative stress processes. Our hypothesis is that these processes may affect the microstructure of the white matter tracts,” Binter said in an email.
Researchers found that greater exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), especially during the first two years of life, increased putamen, a brain structure involved in motor function and learning processes. "A larger putamen has been associated with certain psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders)," Binter said.
To test their hypothesis, the researchers studied 3,515 children enrolled in the Generation R Study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which Binter said provided the researchers a “unique opportunity for studying the effect of air pollution on the neurodevelopment, and to have insights on the possible mechanisms.”
To determine each child’s exposure to air pollution during the study period, the researchers estimated the daily levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and PM2.5. The researchers set their time frame between the mother’s pregnancy and 8.5 years of age, and took the extra step to study specific periods.
“The novel aspect of the present study is that it identified periods of susceptibility to air pollution,” said Binter. “We measured exposure using a finer time scale by analyzing the data on a month-by-month basis, unlike previous studies in which data was analyzed for trimesters of pregnancy or childhood years.”
Between the ages of 9 to 12, the children underwent brain MRIs to examine the structural connectivity and the volumes of various brain structures at the time. Binter said the researchers repeated the MRI assessments on the children from ages 13 to 17, so “it would be possible to extend the period into adolescence in future research.”
Researchers found greater air pollution exposure before the age of five led to greater brain structure alteration observed in preadolescence. Also, they recorded levels of NO2 and PM2.5 that exceeded the World Health Organization’s guidelines for the annual threshold limits.
Surprisingly, however, these levels met European Union standards.
“We should follow up and continue to measure the same parameters in this cohort to investigate the possible long-term effects on the brain of exposure to air pollution,” said ISGlobal researcher and study co-author Mònica Guxens.
When asked on how we can mitigate the effects of air pollution on children’s brains, Binter emphasized the importance of reducing the levels of air pollution. “We need public health policies and urban planning to support the reduction of motorized traffic, the promotion of active and public transport and of green infrastructure," she said.
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin on Thursday shot down as “unacceptable” Gov. Kathy Hochul’s bid to have only one debate before the election, saying her response was woefully inadequate for New York state voters to hear their positions on important issues.
“I am rejecting that offer and I am suggesting that the governor needs to come back with an offer to do multiple debates across the entire state,” Zeldin said during a press briefing.
“One debate is unacceptable. I’m calling on Kathy Hochul to come out of hiding.”
After facing “Scaredy Kat” criticism for weeks, Hochul on Wednesday finally agreed to face Zeldin on Oct. 25, at a debate co-sponsored by Pace University and cable TV’s Spectrum News NY1 — just four days before the start of early voting on Oct. 29.
Zeldin has previously accepted offers by CBS-2 and PIX-11 to debate Hochul on TV.
But Hochul’s campaign has not accepted those offers and said Thursday the governor was standing firm on a single, one-hour debate on NY1.
Hochul has been ahead of Zeldin in the polls since replacing disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo following his August 2021 resignation amid a litany of scandals including alleged sexual misconduct, which he has denied.
“Governor Hochul looks forward to debating on Oct. 25 and highlighting the clear contrast between her strong record of delivering results and Lee Zeldin’s extreme agenda,” her campaign spokesman Jerrel Harvey said.
Other heavily favored Democratic incumbents are taking the same tack as Hochul by agreeing to only one debate, if any at all.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has tentatively agreed to one televised debate with GOP opponent Joe Pinion on October 30 — 8 days before Election Day — co-hosted by Spectrum News/NY1 — sources said. Schumer, first elected to the Senate in 1998, is running for a fifth term.
“The debate has been scheduled. We’re working on the details,” said Schumer spokesman Angelo Roefaro.
Pinion, who confirmed the tentative face-off on Oct. 30, said, “One debate, eight days before the election, is a slap in the face to the voters.”
A source close to NY1 said “nothing has been confirmed” regarding the senatorial debate.
Meanwhile, Republican candidate for state attorney general Michael Henry slammed Democrat incumbent AG Letitia James for refusing to agree to a debate. James, who is seeking a second term, made big waves Wednesday by filing a $250 million lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, his kids Eric, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., and the Trump Organization — alleging “staggering” fraud in the family real estate business.
Henry spokeswoman Candice Giove said James’ campaign has not responded to queries about appearing together on the debate stage. “We’ve gotten no answer,” she said.
The James campaign had no immediate comment.
Elsewhere, Republican candidate for state comptroller, Paul Rodriguez, is in talks with Democrat incumbent Tom DiNapoli to debate at least once, according to Rodriguez’s spokesman, John Burnett.
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Looking for the Academic Analogue to ‘Thank You for Your Servitude’
Are there nonfiction books on higher ed that are as funny as this book on the Trump presidency?
Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich.
Published in July 2022
Atlantic staff writer (and former New York Times reporter) Mark Leibovich knows almost none of us want to waste any more energy or time thinking about the Trump presidency. It would be hard to think of another industry in which fewer Trump supporters work than higher education.
For a quick aside, I googled “most liberal industries,” and the second result came back a 2014 Slate article titled “Which Industries Are the Most Liberal and Most Conservative?” That article reprints a graphic from a 2013 paper published in the American Journal of Political Science that shows how industries lean ideologically based on patterns of political contributions. The takeaway for us is that academia (no surprise) comes out the most liberal.
Why, then, should those of us in higher ed who have almost surely made up our minds about the Trump presidency read another book about the Trump presidency? You need to know something about Mark Leibovich’s writing to answer that question.
Readers of his previous books know that Leibovich is a) über–plugged in and b) super-funny. These two attributes serve the reader of Thank You for Your Servitude well. What Leibovich is after is not an exercise in original reporting. Instead, Thank You for Your Servitude is about the politicians who enabled the worst elements of Trump’s behaviors, policies and actions. Leibovich accomplished this goal by making those around Trump look not sinister but ridiculous.
Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy are chief among the pitiful and tragicomic characters who cast their lot with Trump. In their efforts to remain “relevant,” both politicians abandoned first their values and then any claim to decency. In contrast to the bulk of the Republican Party, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and the late John McCain come off as (complicated and flawed) heroes.
A few years ago, I wrote about Julie Schumacher’s satirical academic novel, The Shakespeare Requirement. In that review, I asked, “Why do we love academia so much that we are willing to make fun of ourselves?” My answer was “I’d say that it is a gift to take our work seriously, but ourselves not so much.”
I’d also say that humor is often the best way to understand something. We love funny books about academia like MOO, Dear Committee Member, Straight Man and Wonder Boys because they allow us to explore our world in a way that nonfiction accounts do not.
Thank You for Your Servitude is nonfiction. And hilarious. Leibovich shows that it is possible to write about an event as horrifying as the Trump presidency and make it funny.
Where are the funny nonfiction books about higher ed? Why have novelists cornered the market on humorous books about academia? Do we have any examples of nonfiction books about colleges and universities that are likely to cause us to embarrassingly laugh out loud while listening to the audiobook version while walking across campus?
Thank You for Your Servitude was the political book I needed at this moment.
I’m on the lookout for its nonfiction analogue set not in the swamp of politics but in the halls of academia. Can you offer any suggestions?
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Former Coosa standout and current Oakland Raider defensive end Justin Tuck, left, goes through drills with Coosa’s LaJerrian Whetstone during workouts on Monday. | Robert Hudson – The Outlook
Former Central Coosa Cougar Justin Tuck was among the 129 nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Hall of Fame announced Tuesday.
Tuck, a two-time Super Bowl winner, started his football career at Coosa as a quarterback. He notably made the switch to tight end, earning two First Team All-State honors in 1999 and 2000.
However, Tuck is known historically for his dominance on the defensive side of the ball as a defensive end.
Tuck would never garner an All-State recognition for defense, but went on to play both collegiately and professionally on the defensive line.
During his career at Central Coosa, Tuck recorded 492 tackles with 37 sacks, 26 forced fumbles, and 17 total fumble recoveries. As a tight end, Tuck had 115 catches for 2,106 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Tuck went on to sign with Notre Dame, where he played from 2001-2004.
When his time was said and done in South Bend, Tuck left as one of the greatest defensive players to ever wear the golden dome.
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He still holds the records for total sacks in a single game, total sacks in a single season and total sacks in a career. He also holds the record for most tackles for loss in a season.
Tuck was drafted in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the New York Giants, where he would win his two Super Bowls (2007 and 2011).
He was a First-team All-Pro in 2008, and a Second-team All-Pro in 2010. He made the Pro Bowl in both of those years as well.
In 2016, Tuck was elected in the New York Giants Ring of Honor.
The Kellyton, Al. native finished his career with the Oakland Raiders in 2015, and now is an employee of Goldman-Sachs.
Tuck is one of eight players in the 129 modern-era nominee list with ties to the state of Alabama, which include legends like Takeo Spikes and DeMarcus Ware.
If Tuck is elected to The Hall next year, he will join Benjamin Russell’s Terrell Owens who was elected in 2018.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CITGO Holding, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), today announced that the Company has repaid in full the approximately $267 million aggregate principal amount of indebtedness that remained outstanding under the Company's Senior Secured Term Loan B due 2023. Today's repayment follows the $216 million repayment made on August 24, 2022 in connection with the excess cash flow provisions of the term loan and was funded through dividends received from CITGO Petroleum Corporation.
CITGO Holding, Inc. ("CITGO Holding" or the "Company") is the direct parent of CITGO Petroleum Corporation ("CITGO"). CITGO Holding is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PDV Holding, Inc. ("PDV Holding"), a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. ("PDVSA" or "ultimate parent"), which is a Venezuelan corporation 100% owned and controlled by the Government of Venezuela.
CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a recognized leader in the refining industry and operates under the well-known CITGO brand. CITGO owns and operates three refineries located in Lake Charles, La.; Lemont, Ill.; and Corpus Christi, Texas, and wholly and/or jointly owns 43 active terminals (which includes five CITGO Holding terminals), six pipelines and three lubricants blending and packaging plants. With approximately 3,300 employees and a combined crude capacity of approximately 769,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), CITGO ranks as the fifth-largest and is one of the most complex independent refiners in the United States. CITGO transports and markets transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products, and supplies a network of approximately 4,300 locally owned and independently operated branded retail outlets, all located east of the Rocky Mountains. CITGO Petroleum Corporation is owned by CITGO Holding, Inc.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards joined Cajun Broadband and state, regional and local leaders to celebrate the start of construction on a 1.5 million dollar effort to bring high speed internet to over 500 locations in St. Martin Parish.
The first groundbreaking of the broadband initiatives funded by the "GUMBO" grant program with a 4.8 million private sector funding match, took place at Cade Community Center in St. Martinville.
This project expands service to undeserved areas in St. Martin Parish.
“Companies like Cajun Broadband are paving the way for our state to close the digital divide by 2029,” said Gov. Edwards. “Not only will they provide high-speed internet to hundreds of locations in St. Martin Parish, but they are expected to create hundreds of jobs as a result of the construction, maintenance, and operation of these networks. We are thrilled that Chris and his team at Cajun Broadband are partnering with the state to meet the needs of our residents.”
"GUMBO" stands for granting unserved municipalities broadband opportunities, the first round of grants were awarded in July to more than 50 parishes across the state with more than 66 thousand locations in need.
A second wave of grants were awarded last month to an additional 10 parishes.
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UPDATE: 5:24 p.m.
The fire is concentrated around the area of Southridge, according to Kennewick Police Department PIO Officer Ramos.
Out of an abundance of caution, houses around the Canyon Lakes area are being evacuated. The focus is on houses South of the Canyon Lakes area, but houses to the east and west are also being informed.
Ramos reports substantial traffic delays in the area. Continue to avoid affected areas as crews respond.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 4:47 p.m.
Multiple agencies, including Benton County Fire District 1, are responding to a large natural cover fire around I-82 and US395. One structure is reportedly involved.
US395 will be closed starting off Bob's Burgers off Hildebrand Boulevard, according to Captain Ron Fryer.
The fire started with grass burning around the Interstate, which was reported at 4:38 p.m., then jumped the ramp. We have reporters on the way.
People are asked to avoid the area of 4800 Southridge Boulevard while crews respond.
This is a developing story, which means information could change. We are working to report timely and accurate information as we get it.
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Mostly clear and breezy to windy tonight. Winds 20-25 mph and gusts up to 40 mph in some areas. Winds will eventually decrease after midnight and low temperatures tonight in the 40s and 50s.
Get ready for a nice long stretch of beautiful weather beginning Friday through most of next week. Sunshine and gradual warming temperatures into the 1st week of Fall.
This weekend is sunny with mild temperatures in the 70s and low 80s. Overnight temperatures are in the upper 40s and low to mid 50s.
We will warm up a few degrees early next week with temperatures in the low to mid 80s.
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Thursday Night...mostly clear, windy...54
Friday... Sunny, PM Cloudy … 78/53
Saturday... Sunny, Clear ...78/54
Sunday... Sunny, Nice ...81/54
Monday... Sunny, Nice ...84/54
Tuesday... Sunny, Nice ...85/56
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Thursday Night … Breezy...47
Friday... Sunny Day, Cloudy Night... 76/50
Saturday... Sunny, Clear … 77/53
Sunday...Sunny, Mostly Clear ...80/53
Monday... Sunny, Nice ….83/55
Tuesday... Sunny, Nice...85/55
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Americans are about to see the biggest increase in their home heating bills in more than 10 years, and it's not just because of inflation.
A new report from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA), which represents the state directors of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), projects a 17.2% jump in average home heating costs this winter compared to last year, and a 42% jump in the cost of household electricity compared to the winter just before the pandemic hit.
The latest increase is the result of sky-high summer temperatures that sent the price of natural gas soaring as some customers cranked up their air conditioners to cool their homes, according to NEADA executive director Mark Wolfe. That spike in demand pushed prices higher, and was exacerbated by the retirement of coal-fired and nuclear plants, in favor of electric generators.
Meanwhile, natural gas production has been slow to come back online after waves of shutdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Today, the price of natural gas is at levels not seen in more than a decade. NEADA estimates that 91% of Americans' heating and cooling costs are tied to the price of natural gas, whether directly or as the primary energy source used to create electricity.
Some utilities are able to soften the blow of dramatic price swings, or spread cost increases over time, and thus protect their customers from price spikes. Additionally, utilities are forbidden from profiting from commodity price increases.
Still, many states are now facing facing depleted natural gas stockpiles. As they begin to purchase more natural gas at current prices to offset the shortfall, customers will likely face higher bills in the coming months.
Indeed, some utilities are already notifying customers to prepare for higher costs. On Sept. 9, the New York utility giant Con Edison forecast that a typical customer’s electric bill would climb 22% to $116 a month this winter, while the average residential natural gas heating customer will see a 32% jump to $460 a month.
The company said the increases are directly related to higher natural gas prices.
The U.S. also finds itself shipping more natural gas out of the country thanks to booming demand from Europe, which is facing a shortage of supply due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, said Gary Cunningham, director of market research at energy consultancy Tradition Energy.
"There's now an imbalance between our supply and demand," Cunningham said. "All summer when we should have been putting gas in storage, we weren’t storing it away. So, we had a cold winter, not strong growth in production, strong exports — and this is what we've got."
Last week, NEADA sent a letter to Congress asking for a supplemental increase of $5 billion to LIHEAP to help assist consumers with the higher cost of home heating and cooling. Without it, the group said, it is facing a "funding cliff," as the $4.5 billion allocated in supplemental funds for LIHEAP in the 2021 American Rescue Plan will be fully spoken for by the end of September.
"For many struggling families, higher prices can mean being forced to choose between heat, food or medication," the association said.
"About 29% of Americans who were surveyed had to reduce or forego expenses for basic household necessities to pay an energy bill in the last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Pulse Survey. And that was before fuel prices started to rise."
Tammy Stauffer, director of energy assistance for Community Action Partnership of Hennepin County in Minneapolis, told NBC affiliate KARE-TV that it already predicts grant sizes for its energy assistance will be smaller than last winter, and that previously expanded eligibility for assistance will no longer apply.
Last year, the affiliate said, the organization fielded 7,000 more applications than the previous season, an increase of 38%.
“The additional funds we had last season definitely helped us be able to help more people and to provide bigger grants to them,” Stauffer said. “I am a little worried the funding won’t be able to meet the demand.
Mark Wolfe, the NEADA executive director, said any additional funding would allow LIHEAP to reach more families.
"With these higher prices, we expect more people to apply for help," he said. "Especially lower income families also struggling with higher food prices and higher rent. We’re paying a bill, so if we're paying this bill, they'll be better able to afford food and gasoline."
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Convicted NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere was attacked by a fellow inmate and sex offender before being wrongly punished for the incident, his attorneys said in a lawsuit.
Raniere was in the United States Penitentiary Tucson’s dining hall at 6:50 a.m. on July 26 “when he was assaulted by inmate Maurice Withers with a closed fist on Mr. Raniere’s head and face,” his lawyers wrote in the suit against the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons.
It is not clear what led to the alleged assault or if the inmate was aware that Raniere was convicted on multiple charges of running a cult-like group that kept women as virtual sex prisoners to service him. The organization, called NXIVM, was the subject of HBO’s docuseries “The Vow.”
According to an amended complaint filed earlier this month, Raniere suffered a black eye, swelling, nausea and dizziness for more than a week after the alleged attack. His requests for ice packs to treat the swelling and pain were allegedly denied.
“Mr. Raniere did not fight back,” according to court papers. “Mr. Raniere has limited knowledge of the assault.”
Raniere was “given a disciplinary ticket for ‘fighting’ ” and placed in the prison’s Special Housing Unit. Withers, the alleged attacker, is serving 18 years for his convictions linked to a sex trafficking operation.
Attorney information for Withers was not available.
“Due to SHU placement, Plaintiff was denied contact legal visits with his attorneys and forced to either yell through plexiglass or be handcuffed and shackled to a belly chain to communicate with his attorneys,” Raniere’s legal team said.
A bureau official declined to discuss the specifics of Raniere’s claims.
“For safety and security reasons the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) does not provide information about conditions of confinement or internal security practices for any particular inmate,” BOP spokesperson Donald Murphy said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday.
“The BOP is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all inmates in our population, our staff, and the public. Humane treatment of the men and women in our custody is a top priority.”
The disciplinary ticket against Raniere was dismissed on Aug. 23, but the assault and prison response is part of a “pattern of retaliation” against the plaintiff for “exercising his constitutional rights to challenge his criminal conviction,” his lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.
Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison following his 2019 conviction on federal sex trafficking, racketeering and possession of child pornography charges.
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The VA medical system performed its first abortion, weeks after an interim final rule was announced that allowed it to provide the service in the case of incest, rape, or when the life of the mother was in jeopardy.
Denis McDonough, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, told lawmakers in the Senate Wednesday night that the procedure was performed at one of its medical centers. A spokesperson, citing the clients privacy, declined to provide the location or give further details.
The VA did not previously provide abortion services but in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and ending constitutional abortion rights, the department said it believes it was "essential" to the life and health of veterans and VA beneficiaries that they still have access to medically necessary abortions.
McDonough said in a news release that offering the service was a "patient safety decision."
"Pregnant veterans and VA beneficiaries deserve to have access to world-class reproductive care when they need it most. That’s what our nation owes them, and that’s what we at VA will deliver," he said in a statement.
Dr. Shereef Elnahal, the department's under secretary for health, said the VA came to its decision after listening to health care providers and veterans.
"Offering this care will save veterans’ health and lives, and there is nothing more important than that," Elnahal said in a statement.
In addition to abortions, the VA will also provide abortion counseling. Both changes also apply to eligible dependents enrolled in the agency’s CHAMPVA program.
The Supreme Court's ruling in June led to several states setting trigger laws that either banned abortions entirely or severely restricted when the procedure can happen. The VA said its health care providers will be able to provide authorized services regardless of state restrictions.
Decisions about if a pregnant person’s "life or health" are endangered will be made on a case-by-case basis by VA health care providers in consultation with patients. The VA will consider self-reporting of rape or incest as sufficient evidence in those cases, the agency said.
The VA excluded abortion coverage when it established its medical benefits package in 1999. The agency did not provide an explanation at the time but said in background information provided earlier this month that it was aware that veterans in its health care system "could access abortion services in their communities." After the Dobbs decision in June, that was no longer the case nationwide, prompting the agency to create exemptions to its exclusion.
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LA GRANDE, Ore. — Permits will be issued by the Oregon Department of Transportation for people who want to help chain up commercial vehicles during the winter along I-84. Only people with permits will be allowed to help drivers put chains on while on certain sections of the interstate this winter, between November 1, 2022 and April 1, 2023.
The sections of I-84 that will have helper permits include:
- Snow zones between Pendleton and La Grande
- Ladd Canyon east of La Grade
- Area west of Ontario
Permits will be issued by the ODOT District 12 office in Pendleton, District 13 office in La Grande and District 14 office in Ontario. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) will also have permits available for tribal members. The exact number of permits will depend on demand and the number of applications.
If you are interested, contact the corresponding ODOT district office during the month of October for application information.
On November 1, the district offices will hold random drawings to decide who will be offered a permit. The people selected will have one week to finish their application and turn it back in.
“This is a safety issue,” said Tom Lapp, ODOT Permit Specialist. “Limiting the permits for each district is necessary to help control the number of people working along state highways during winter weather conditions.”
You can contact each office in-person or on the phone.
ODOT District 12 Office: 1327 SE 3rd Street, Pendleton. 541-278-3450.
ODOT District 13 Office: 3014 Island Avenue, La Grande. 541-963-8407.
ODOT District 14 Office: 1390 SE 1st Street, Ontario. 541-823-4016.
For permits issued through the CTUIR, contact 541-429-7193.
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PASCO, Wash. — A local church has been listed on the Washington Heritage Register, an official state listing of significant properties contributing to the heritage of the state. Over 2,100 locations have been recognized so far, along with Pasco’s Morning Star Baptist Church.
A request has been made to the Keeper of the National Register in Washington, D.C. to also list the church on the National Register of Historic Places. The church was nominated along with the Black American Experience in Pasco.
Being listed on either register comes with potential tax credits, property tax deductions and code waivers, in order to protect the property’s integrity, according to the press release from the city of Pasco.
In addition, if any federal or state action would negatively affect the historic values of a property, a listing on either register promises a protective review.
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DOVER, Del.- The Firefly Music Festival kicks off Thursday night in the Woodlands of Dover International Speedway and city officials are prepared for an action packed weekend.
Dover has hosted the Firefly Festival for the past 10 years.
Before the event was cancelled due to the pandemic in 2020, it was always held in either June or July. Last year, organizers moved the festival to September and plan to keep it that way.
The Firefly Festival is a four day event, and many guests will be camping out in the Woodlands all weekend.
Firefly will bring over forty thousand visitors to Dover, but Delaware Department of Transportation officials say local residents should not worry about overcrowding.
"Having done this now for a decade, we've got a pretty good playbook," said C.R. McLeod of DelDOT.
Dover Mayor, Robin Christiansen, said the festival will boost the economy and bring life to Dover.
According to the Dover Police Department and DelDOT, the busiest traffic days will likely be Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.
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KENT COUNTY, Del.- A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday, Sept. 22 in Dover on the site of what will be the new Kent County Family Courthouse.
The new courthouse will be located on the corner of S. Governors Ave and Water Street.
Delaware Family Court Chief Judge Michael K. Newell said it was exciting to be at the ceremony in Dover just about three months after the groundbreaking of the court's new Sussex County courthouse.
"This is a historic day for the City of Dover, Kent County and the State of Delaware and it is another historic day for the Judicial Branch and especially the Family Court of the State of Delaware," said Chief Judge Newell.
The new $117.7 million 3-story Kent County Family Court will replace an outdated building at 400 Court Street in Dover that was built in 1989.
A feasibility study conducted in 2015 showed the old courthouse to be inadequate.
Delaware's Family Court commonly handles emotional conflicts such as domestic violence, child abuse, and divorce. This being one reason why the new building is needed.
The courthouse will be nearly three times the size of the existing building and will allow the Family Court to better handle the volume of cases in Kent County.
The new facility will include architectural details that reference the surrounding historic district.
Construction is expected to begin this winter and be completed in late 2025.
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OCEAN CITY, Md. -- A high surf and high rip current advisory could make surfing in Ocean City risky. The advisory will go into effect at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, September 23rd, and will last until 8:00 p.m. Six to 10 foot waves are possible, which, with fewer lifeguards on duty and the high surf and rip current risks, could cause some dangerous conditions.
The big waves, however, are enticing for surfers. We spoke with surfers in Ocean City today, who said they'll be keeping an eye on the weather and conditions in the ocean.
"Tomorrow, I plan on checking it, the wind is gonna be pretty strong in the morning, so I think it may die down a little bit in the afternoon," said Alysha Holmes.
Holmes, who's been surfing for eight years, says experienced surfers have a fun weekend ahead of them.
"Tomorrow will be a fun day, tomorrow afternoon for sure, and Saturday," said Holmes.
For surfers who aren't experienced, this weekend is not the time to start learning, says Nick Morris, who's been surfing for 64 years.
"I would give the novices, kind of caution," said Morris. "There's gonna be rips, and there's a tendency to get hurt by the wave pitching you over if you don't know how to get through it or go over it."
Officials with the Ocean City Beach Patrol are also asking those who choose to surf, experienced or not, to be careful on Friday. The OCBP also says Saturday may be a better option.
"Just based on what we've seen, we would anticipate once the storm goes by and the wind shifts, probably Saturday morning will be ideal at least for the surfers," said Mike Stone.
OCBP also wants to remind people who surf on Friday, September 23rd, or this coming weekend, to do so near a lifeguard stand.
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Making the postseason is nothing new to Brentsville High School’s football team. The Tigers have done it seven straight times, currently the most of any local program.
Reaching the state semifinals, however, was foreign territory until last fall when Brentsville advanced that far for the first time.
The Tigers graduated a number of key players from that historic 11-3 team, but they also brought back some vital pieces who overall make them faster and more athletic.
The result so far has put them in position for another deep run.
Brentsville is off to a 3-1 start after a 42-0 win Sept. 16 over James Wood. The Class 4 Colonels beat the Class 3 Tigers last season. In the rematch, Brentsville posted its most complete game going into the midway point of its season.
The Tigers got the job done in all three facets of the game (offense, defense and special teams). Nico Orlando rushed 25 times for 137 yards and three touchdowns. Caleb Alexander threw for 161 yards and one touchdown. And the defense recorded four interceptions. Josh Rodgers had two and Samay Naveen and Langston White one each. White returned his for a touchdown.
“I felt like last season’s team had a different moxie,” said Brentsville second-year head coach Loren White. “This is a more reserved team, but they can click faster and know how to attack a team’s weakness.”
Brentsville needed this win after losing the week before to Kettle Run. District play begins Friday, and the Tigers wanted to enter the Meridian game on a high note.
“It was huge,” White said of the James Wood win. “Kettle Run is always a well-coached group. I did not have them fully prepared.”
White credits seniors Tyler Nix and Will Johnson with helping the team stay focused and accountable.
“It started in the offseason with consistent hard work, and the coaches keeping us hungry to make sure everyone knew this past season wasn't a fluke,” Johnson said.
Nix, a first-team all-state offensive lineman and Class 3 Northwestern District offensive player of the year in 2021, is Brentsville’s most experienced player. He has been on the varsity since his freshman season and spent his eighth-grade year playing on Brentsville’s junior varsity. His middle school (Nokesville) does not have middle school sports, which means eighth-graders are allowed to try out for Brentsville’s junior varsity teams.
“Being able to bounce back shows we all care,” Nix said.
New faces have stepped in to fill starting roles. On offense, senior Tyler Herald replaced all-state performer Ryan Stevens at center, and Jacob Wright is a senior tackle.
In his second year as Brentsville’s starting quarterback, Alexander is more comfortable in the system, which allows White to expand the playbook more.
Brentsville graduated all-state running back running back Bryce Jackson (1,282 rushing yards, 24 touchdowns), but Orlando is filling the void, joined by Alexander.
Brentsville continues to find inspiration remembering Ryland Harris. A 17-year-old Brentsville student, Harris died Sept. 15, 2021, of brain cancer. Led by Johnson, the team holds a pre-game prayer at the 12-yard line in honor of Harris and his jersey number.
“We show up everyday with one common goal,” Johnson said. “And we push each other every day to work hard and be the best versions of ourselves.”
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A San Bernardino store clerk was shot to death in a confrontation with a man who later was arrested, the San Bernardino Police Department said Thursday, Sept. 22.
The shooting happened at about 8 p.m. Tuesday outside P&J Liquor at 525 W. Marshall Boulevard, said Sgt. Equino Thomas, a Police Department spokesman. The clerk, 46-year-old Glendale resident Nader Alkouli, was gunned down after getting into some sort of dispute outside the store. Thomas said.
The store was not being robbed, Thomas added.
Alkouli was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Detectives identified William Paul Norris Jr., 21, of San Bernardino, as a suspect. On Wednesday, Norris was arrested at a business near University and Hallmark parkways. He was booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of murder and assault with a firearm. He was being held in lieu of $1.25 million bail.
“The investigation is ongoing, and we are not releasing too much information as to not taint any witnesses we are still trying to interview,” Thomas said.
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Urging drivers to stop street racing and street takeovers, L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami and representatives of the California Highway Patrol and LAPD Street Racing Task Force, were joined on Thursday, Sept. 22, by Street Racing Kills founder Lili Trujillo and its director of outreach and communication Lori Argumedo.
Both Trujillo and Argumedo lost loved ones to street racing. Speaking at the Irwindale Speedway, Argumedo described the deep tragedy when her niece Bethany was killed. Trujillo stood before a huge photo of her daughter, Valentina, who was killed during street racing. They urged drivers countywide to end the dangerous, tragic, and increasingly popular, illegal practice.
Instead, law enforcement leaders and activists both urged those who enjoy street racing to head to Irwindale Speedway and try out the “Burnout Box,” a 2,000-seat venue at the speedway where people can drive their own cars into the “Box” and perform burnouts, donuts, drifts and swings. Irwindale officials say it’s all is done “in a safe and controlled environment.”
The speedway hosts Thursday Night Thunder from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., at which burnouts and drag racing is legal.
The Sheriff’s office said in a statement that the multi-agency message on Thursday is intended to “remind street takeover enthusiasts that law enforcement has zero tolerance for this misconduct on the streets of Los Angeles County.”
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PLAYA VISTA — Whether you’re a hater, a dismisser, or one of their wary, loyal fans, face it: When the Clippers open training camp on Tuesday in Las Vegas, it could be the beginning of their first championship season.
Lawrence Frank, the team’s president of basketball operations, ushered in the NBA new year on Thursday by speaking with reporters on the roof of the Clippers’ training center. We could have run his every measured statement through Politifact’s TRUTH-O-METER and gotten confirmation that it was, technically, either “true” or “mostly true,” because he said stuff like this:
“We all know how extremely hard it is to win a championship.”
Facts.
“(We) realize how fragile it is.”
Yup.
“A third of the league is a contender for a championship.”
Well, maybe.
Frank proceeded with caution, stayed humble, said nothing that wasn’t responsible and perfectly reasonable.
With all due respect, I don’t wanna hear it.
You’re the Clippers, you’re supposed to win.
Wait …
You’re the Clippers, you’re supposed to win?
Yes!
There’s no tip-toeing around it, no playing it off.
This team could be great. It should be.
2️⃣ comin' through. pic.twitter.com/cSdXda0TmD
— LA Clippers (@LAClippers) August 19, 2022
They’ll welcome back a repaired Kawhi Leonard, who was, by Frank’s estimation, “playing the best basketball of anyone in the world” in June 2021, when he suffered a torn right anterior cruciate ligament in the second round of the playoffs.
Behind closed doors since then, Leonard has been running a comprehensive reboot. The Clippers are at all times respectful of his privacy, but Frank said Thursday that the five-time All-Star from Moreno Valley has reached a point in his rehab that’s “very, very encouraging, exciting and … inspiring.”
All that’s left is to break the seal and release him for five-on-five action at training camp, where he’ll join fellow All-Star Paul George, who Frank said is “100%” after an elbow injury and other maladies limited him to 31 games last season.
But even without their headliners, the Clippers proved resilient, remained competitive and fun to watch.
The Clippers went all season without Leonard and finished 42-40, including 24-27 without George, and missed the playoffs, but they at least reached the play-in, unlike their neighbors down the Crypto.com Arena hallway.
And the Clippers’ understudies who took on bigger roles seized those opportunities, improved and gained confidence. Now, with the exception of backup center Isaiah Hartenstein, they’re all back – if they ever left, because most of the team stayed in L.A. to spend the summer working out together. All of that gives the Clippers crucial continuity and so much depth they might have to squeeze into a submersible to get to their games.
Or they can just fly because they’re especially stacked at the position that matters most in the modern NBA – on the wing.
And it’s Tyronn Lue in the pilot’s seat, the Sully Sullenberger of mid-series and mid-game adjustments.
Last season ended early, but by Lue’s own admission, finding ways to keep the Clippers on course despite so many major injuries made him a better coach – and he’s already led Cleveland to its only NBA title and two other Finals appearances before bringing the Clippers to their first Western Conference finals in his first season here.
The only box the Clippers still need to check heading into this 2022-23 campaign (besides proven depth at center) is the one for attitude: Mild? Medium? Hot? X-Hot? Howlin’?
Frank described this seasoned, stellar roster as something that’s “been four years in the making for us.” But past torment has taken a toll: “Does that guarantee us anything? No, nothing.”
The Clippers caught plenty of flack in 2019-20, in Leonard and George’s first season with the team, for acting like they’d won something when they hadn’t won anything – before they crashed and burned in the bubble, coughing up a 3-1 series lead against Denver.
And then there was Leonard’s injury the next postseason, and all of last season’s trials …
And that’s just since Kawhi and PG teamed up.
It’s no mystery why Frank wouldn’t want to skip to the end: “What I enjoy is what do we look like in January? What do we look like in February? What are our habits daily? That’s kind of how we evaluate things.”
The granular, live-in-the-moment approach is admirable if you’re trying to avoid making eye contact with the 15,000-pound elephant in the room.
Because, sure, actions ring louder than words, but words matter, and if the Clippers are going to finally ditch the decades of disappointment and dejection, they’re going to have to shout down those demons and doubts.
They’ve got to go into this with appropriate gusto, with a champion’s swagger.
Lean in, own it, yell it from the roof.
Because the Clippers can say all the right things all season, but if they’re not competing for a championship at the end of what is set up as the organization’s clearest look at a title in its 53-year history, the last word will be that they failed.
They should want to speak that out of existence.
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Venue hosted 431,092 patrons, 221 events and performances and 89 sold-out shows
(GREENSBORO, NC) – The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts celebrated the incredible success of its inaugural year with a luncheon today in the venue’s Joseph S. Koury Family Grand View Room.
In its remarkable first year, the Tanger Center hosted 431,092 patrons, 221 events and performances and 89 sold-out shows, as well as a record-setting inaugural Broadway season that delighted 17,414 season ticketholders, an industry record for a new venue.
The $94M Tanger Center opened on Sept. 2, 2021 with a concert by Greensboro native and Grammy Award winning musician Rhiannon Giddens. The versatility of the 3,023-seat venue has attracted wide range of live entertainment events including touring Broadway productions, concerts, comedy shows, Guilford College’s Bryan Series, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra performances, Greensboro Opera and all types of family entertainment
“In just one year, the Tanger Center has made an enormous impact on the City of Greensboro,” said Mayor Nancy Vaughan. “The state-of-art-venue has brought us such a diverse lineup of live entertainments events, electrified downtown Greensboro and generated millions in economic impact for our region.”
Speakers at today’s event included Vaughan, Professional Facilities Management (Broadway partner) president Lynn Singleton, Greensboro Coliseum Complex managing director Matt Brown and First Bank Regional Executive John Vestal.
The event also previewed the 2022-23 First Bank Broadway season that kicks off with ‘Pretty Woman: The Musical’ which hits the Tanger Center stage for eight performances, October 25-30.
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When Mehmet Oz was vying for the GOP Senate nomination in Pennsylvania, his argument was simple: He could do better than any other Republican in the populous and politically moderate counties around Philadelphia in a general election.
The argument -- along with an endorsement from former President Donald Trump -- helped him narrowly win the primary. But as the nominee, Oz faces a new dilemma: Motivating the commonwealth's most conservative voters.
In Pennsylvania's rural, conservative stretches, areas that overwhelmingly voted for Trump in 2020, Oz is somewhat of an afterthought. Many conservative voters in some of these rural counties told CNN they plan to vote for the celebrity doctor. But few were energized by Oz's campaign and the overwhelming reason they plan to back him is their opposition to the Democratic nominee, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.
It's an issue Oz faced during the primary when he was challenged on the right by commentator Kathy Barnette and others, and keeping the conservative base motivated will be crucial to his general election chances.
"Oz was Trump's candidate, he's not our candidate," said Ned Frear, a voter in Bedford County, which the former President won with about 83% of the vote in 2020.
Frear is a member of a group of retired veterans who meet at the same Route 220 diner to drink coffee and talk politics each week. Oz stopped at the diner back in February -- and narrowly won the country in the May primary. Still, Frear and others are largely unmotivated by the GOP nominee.
"People in Bedford County are probably going to hold their noses and vote for him," Frear said, "because Fetterman is a dead loss as a candidate."
Clay Buckingham, another retired veteran, agreed: "That's my feeling about Oz. I'm sorry that I'm going to have to vote for him, but I'd rather see him as senator than see Fetterman."
"I voted for Kathy Barnette in the primary," added Doug Braendel, another member of the veteran group. "She was my favorite candidate, but so be it. This the candidate, so I've got to go with him."
A vote against Fetterman
For many of these voters, the reason to vote for Oz is Fetterman, a candidate they view as antithetical to their conservative views.
The Democratic nominee has tried to make inroads with rural voters. He has hosted events over the past month in counties such as Indiana and Venango, both of which Trump carried with around 70% of the vote in 2020. And he made an April visit to Bedford, where he pushed the need to raise the minimum wage and stressed not ignoring rural counties.
"Today is about connecting with voters and letting them know that they are not just taken for granted or they're not just like, 'It's a red county, why do we care?'" Fetterman said about a month before he had a stroke that kept him off the campaign trail for two months and has loomed over much of his race against Oz.
Fetterman's campaign believes his path to victory involves keeping Republican margins down in counties like Bedford, while running up his vote totals in urban and suburban areas.
And the Democrat could be aided in that effort by the lack of enthusiasm for Oz from the GOP base. A recent CBS News/YouGov Battleground Tracker survey found Oz supporters were far less enthusiastic about his campaign than Fetterman supporters were about the Democrat's effort.
Just 36% of likely Oz voters said they were "very enthusiastic" about voting for the Republican, while 64% of registered Republicans said they wished someone else had been nominated, according to the poll. In contrast, 63% of likely Fetterman voters said they were "very enthusiastic" about backing him, while 77% of registered Democrats said they were "glad he was nominated."
In counties like Bedford and nearby Somerset, however, the polarization of the country is felt clearer than ever -- it is the antipathy for Fetterman, and the fact he is a Democrat, that is driving out Republicans for Oz.
"Obviously, he's our candidate of choice now, so we need to back him because red is better than blue," said Terri Mitchell, a voter in Somerset County, which Oz lost to former hedge fund executive Dave McCormick in the Republican primary.
Guy Berkebile, the chair of the Somerset County Republican Party, acknowledged the same: "Some of them, it took a little time," he said of Republicans who harbored apprehensions about Oz. "But they're realizing that my best option is to be vote for Dr. Oz."
Berkebile hosted Oz at his company, Guy Chemical, earlier this year. He said that there were plenty of local voters who had doubts about the television doctor at the time.
"We're a very Christian-based, conservative county. They were somewhat hesitant on Dr. Oz at first. They weren't sold on his Second Amendment stance, a lot of pro-lifers here, they weren't sold on if he was pro-life or not," Berkebile said, before adding, "Voting for Fetterman is not an option."
Brittany Yanick, a spokeswoman for the Oz campaign, said the campaign was confident of holding the reddest counties in the state because many of those areas "rely on our energy sector as an economic driver," while also criticizing Fetterman's past stance on fracking.
"Pennsylvania needs a strong leader who will stand up for American values and help heal this country, not make it worse," Yanick said.
During his unsuccessful 2016 run for the Senate, Fetterman expressed support for a moratorium on fracking in Pennsylvania "until we get an extraction tax, and the strictest enviro regulations in this country." He currently does not support a fracking ban and has taken a more nuanced approach about the transition to clean energy.
A boost from Mastriano
Oz could get some help in his bid to consolidate the Republican base from GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, a far-right state senator who upset more establishment candidates in the primary. Mastriano has been a leading voice advancing Trump's false claims of 2020 election fraud, and mainstream Republicans have expressed doubts about his ability to win the general election.
Polls have consistently shown Mastriano trailing Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro, including the recent CBS News/YouGov survey that gave Shapiro a double-digit lead.
But people like Gary Smith, the chair of the Constitutional Republicans of Western Pennsylvania, believe Mastriano's supporters are so loyal to him, they will undoubtedly turn out to vote in November and, while there, will likely hold their noses and vote for Oz.
"Mastriano is so strong that he is going to pull Oz along on his coattails," said Smith, whose group consists of some of the most conservative voters around Jefferson County, which Trump won with 79% of the vote in 2020.
Many in Smith's group supported Barnette in the primary -- and Jefferson was one of the few counties she won in May. But Oz visited the area after his primary win, and Smith said the GOP nominee met with the group and "cleared some concerns up" and "has given us some assurances on pro-life, Second Amendment, things of that nature."
Smith said that even if some in his group still harbor concerns about Oz, "they are going to suck it up and put their big girl and big boy pants on" and vote for him in November.
"Our philosophy is that even if Oz was liberal compared to us, he is an ultra-conservative compared to Fetterman," Smith said. "So, I guess in some ways, politics is relative."
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES OF ALL HAWAIIAN
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.A long-period south-southwest swell is increasing surf heights
along south facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands. The swell is
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Surf of 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
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PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A 30-year-old woman is in critical condition after falling from Lulumalu Falls, Thursday afternoon.
Crews with Honolulu Medical Services (EMS) were called out to the area just off Nuuanu Pali Drive around 12:15 p.m.
The victim, who has only been identified as a 30-year-old woman, fell from an unknown height at Lulumahu Falls. She was taken from the falls in critical condition to a local hospital. There were no other reported injuries.
According to the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), Lulumahu Falls is in the Honolulu Forest Watershed, a restricted area under the DLNR Forestry and Wildlife Division. A permit is required to hike in this area, DLNR said.
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii.
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Human remains found in river date back to prehistoric person, officials say
MARSHALL COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - A human jawbone found in the Iowa River is likely from prehistoric times.
The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were initially called on Aug. 10 to a remote area in the Iowa River where a possible human lower jawbone was discovered during a biological and wildlife survey.
Officials said the jawbone was intact but deteriorated, indicating that it was at least several years old. Investigators said they conducted a more thorough search of the area and located three additional potential human bones.
KCRG reports the suspected human remains were sent to the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office for further testing. That team determined that the mandible was human and that the remaining bones didn’t appear to be from a human.
The jawbone in question was then taken to the Office of the State Archaeologist and the University of Iowa. Those team members found that the mandible likely belonged to a prehistoric middle to older aged Native American man.
State officials said further research is also expected to be completed on the jawbone.
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It could have been Jimmy Garoppolo under center for the Steelers and Browns on Thursday night. Instead, both teams opted for free agent quarterbacks who have struggled through the early part of the season. Of course, given Trey Lance’s season-ending injury, the 49ers are happy neither front office decided to meet their asking price for Garoppolo.
The Browns are coming off an embarrassing blown 14-point lead against the Jets last week. With a short week to turn things around, they will try to defend home field against the Steelers, who have split two close games to start the season.
The Steelers are 4-point underdogs tonight, with the total on the game set at 38 at DraftKings Sportsbook.
Here are my predictions for every game through Sunday of this week:
Marc’s prediction record:
Week 1: 7-8-1
Week 2: 9-7
Overall: 16-15-1
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(WSYR-TV) — Congresswoman Liz Cheney will be welcomed to Syracuse University on October 3 to speak with faculty, staff, alumni, and students, thanks to The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Members of the Syracuse University community can register for the event, “Courage in Defense of Democracy: A Conversation with Congresswoman Liz Cheney” here.
Congresswoman Cheney, who is Wyoming’s only representative, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016. Her platform mainly focuses on expanding the energy in America, creating jobs through conservative solutions, cutting taxes, and creating jobs, all while thinking about mining and agricultural industries.
Cheney also sits on the House Armed Services Committee and is the vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate The January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The event will be held from 2-4 p.m. on October 3 at the National Veterans Resource Center, K.G. Tan Auditormin.
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A new phase of California’s weed legalization begins as the state prepares to make it illegal for a company to fire, or not hire, someone simply for their off-the-clock marijuana use.
California is the seventh state to do it, but a potentially pivotal one for the national attitude toward weed.
At the very least, it’s an emboldening step for the millions of California adults who report using marijuana.
At a cannabis store near San Diego, it could mean a tax boom.
The elimination of job risk helps boost usage numbers.
"There were a lot of myths and stigma associated with cannabis and with having a cannabis store in the community. So it’s nice to see that none of those myths came true, and a lot of that stigma is starting to disappear," said David Dallal, a California cannabis store manager.
Cannabis industry insiders and even some law enforcement hope that destigmatizing weed will push more weed users to shop at legitimate dispensaries.
SEE MORE: The Big Business Of Cannabis
It could be a potentially life-saving choice as fentanyl-laced drugs flow over the southern border and end up on the black market.
But the stigma around marijuana is still challenging for people like Dr. David Berger, who’s trying to battle a new restriction in Florida that limits the amount of medical marijuana a person can get in a day.
"Some of my patients, for instance, because of their medical needs, they might need to have more milligrams than what the state is allowing for," said Berger.
Florida is allowing doctors to appeal the limit for those who need it. But that takes time — a potentially-serious wait for users who need the drug.
"If a person is out of their medicine, they could be out of their medicine for a good week or almost two and really have no way of accessing it," said Berger.
It's a deep contrast to the new reality in California, where lawmakers hope making marijuana irrelevant to employability will set a new standard for the country.
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NEW YORK (AP) — There's a new nature documentary series that promises to show viewers incredible animal behavior in vibrant clarity. Heard that all before? Well, this one is on steroids.
"Super/Natural," a six-part series from National Geographic now streaming on Disney+, has tapped "Avatar" creator James Cameron as executive producer, and he's added special effects on top of leading-edge filmmaking technology.
The effects sometimes morph the animals into something like stars in a Marvel movie, with their bellows distorting the air, lumbering attacks that cause shock waves in sand or pheromones from an insect rendered as bursting noxious clouds. Even trees light up when sugars move through their roots.
"We're not actually falsifying or turning it into a superhero movie. We're giving an access portal for our limited senses into a natural world that goes far, far beyond anything that we can sense directly," Cameron told reporters recently.
The episodes are arranged by theme — eat or be eaten, the mating game and bloodlines are some of the topics — and viewers get a visual treat as cameras capture everything from fireflies in Mexico producing a synchronized light show to bottlenose dolphins teaming up with Brazilian fishermen to catch mullet.
Videographers armed with the latest science data underwent 80 animal shoots in 25 countries to create the series, using such high-tech gear as high-speed cameras and drones. Cameron listed what they tried to capture — infrasound, ultrasound, ultraviolet and infrared, among them.
"What's our purpose in this? Not just to entertain, but absolutely to teach and to show the wonder, the majesty, the complexity, of nature," said Cameron. "We're going to pull out every trick we know as entertainers, as storytellers, to try to get that engagement."
So unlike a traditional nature documentary where adding effects is a strict non-no, "Super/Natural" allows us to feel what bat sonar might look like, see what a bumblebee sees or how bears communicate with invisible clues.
"The bear can smell pheromones, but we can't see it. It's a visual medium; it's not a smell medium," he said. "It is real. It's just that we can't see it. So we have to use the effects to see as they see or to smell as they smell."
The series is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, who is lively, sly and delicious in his descriptions. "The female of the species is into some pretty freaky stuff," he says of vampire spiders. Of cicadas popping out after 17 years underground, he drily adds: "America's biggest speed dating event is about to begin."
Cameron was full of praise for Cumberbatch: "He doesn't just narrate it; he acts it," he said. "He gets you inside what's happening in a way that I think is very relatable."
Cameron, an ardent environmentalist and vegan, sees "Super/Natural" as a logical extension of his latest filmmaking, which includes the upcoming fantasy "Avatar: The Way of Water." In both, he hopes to reawaken a sense of wonder for the natural world.
"The natural history stuff is not just a side gig to making 'Avatar' movies. To me, they go together perfectly as something that's equally exciting to me," he said. "It always awakens in me this sense of amazement at how complex nature is."
That amazement is captured in the series with images of glow-in-the-dark flying squirrels soaring the length of a football field, burrowing owls copying the sound of a snake rattle to scare away predators and devil rays leaping 6 feet out of the ocean.
Cameron's last documentary series on animals was "Secrets of the Whales" narrated by Sigourney Weaver. The director has fond memories from growing up in Canada of exploring the woods, trapping insects and watching birds.
"It blows your mind how amazing nature is, things that we just take for granted, and how nature has developed all these different amazing strategies for these animals and these plants over millions of years."
He also took a gentle swipe at the attention the latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope have garnered, from Neptune's rings to galaxy clusters.
"This is the only planet we know of for sure — evidence-based — that has life. And it's an amazing planet," he said. "There's hundreds of millions of species here as opposed to Mars, where we don't even know if there's one species.
"I love Mars. I love exploration in space and underwater. But we have to take care of this planet. We have to understand it before we destroy it."
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WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves for the updated COVID-19 booster shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the count Thursday as public health experts bemoaned President Joe Biden’s recent remark that “the pandemic is over.”
The White House said more than 5 million people received the new boosters by its own estimate that accounts for reporting lags in states.
Health experts said it is too early to predict whether demand would match up with the 171 million doses of the new boosters the U.S. ordered for the fall.
“No one would go looking at our flu shot uptake at this point and be like, ‘Oh, what a disaster,’” said Dr. David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “If we start to see a large uptick in cases, I think we're going to see a lot of people getting the (new COVID) vaccine.”
A temporary shortage of Moderna vaccine caused some pharmacies to cancel appointments while encouraging people to reschedule for a Pfizer vaccine. The issue was expected to resolve as government regulators wrapped up an inspection and cleared batches of vaccine doses for distribution.
“I do expect this to pick up in the weeks ahead,” said White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. “We’ve been thinking and talking about this as an annual vaccine like the flu vaccine. Flu vaccine season picks up in late September and early October. We’re just getting our education campaign going. So we expect to see, despite the fact that this was a strong start, we actually expect this to ramp up stronger.”
Some Americans who plan to get the shot, designed to target the most common omicron strains, said they are waiting because they either had COVID-19 recently or another booster. They are following public health advice to wait several months to get the full benefit of their existing virus-fighting antibodies.
Others are scheduling shots closer to holiday gatherings and winter months when respiratory viruses spread more easily.
Retired hospital chaplain Jeanie Murphy, 69, of Shawnee, Kansas, plans to get the new booster in a couple of weeks after she has some minor knee surgery. Interest is high among her neighbors from what she sees on the Nextdoor app.
“There’s quite a bit of discussion happening among people who are ready to make appointments,” Murphy said. “I found that encouraging. For every one naysayer there will be 10 or 12 people who jump in and say, ‘You’re crazy. You just need to go get the shot.’”
Biden later acknowledged criticism of his remark about the pandemic being over and clarified the pandemic is “not where it was.” The initial comment didn’t bother Murphy. She believes the disease has entered a steady state when “we’ll get COVID shots in the fall the same as we do flu shots.”
Experts hope she's right, but are waiting to see what levels of infection winter brings. The summer ebb in case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths may be followed by another surge, Dowdy said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, asked Thursday by a panel of biodefense experts what still keeps him up at night, noted that half of vaccinated Americans never got an initial booster dose.
“We have a vulnerability in our population that will continue to have us in a mode of potential disruption of our social order," Fauci said. “I think that we have to do better as a nation.”
Some Americans who got the new shots said they are excited about the idea of targeting the vaccine to the variants circulating now.
“Give me all the science you can,” said Jeff Westling, 30, an attorney in Washington, D.C., who got the new booster and a flu shot on Tuesday, one in each arm. He participates in the combat sport jujitsu, so wants to protect himself from infections that may come with close contact. “I have no issue trusting folks whose job it is to look at the evidence.”
Meanwhile, Biden’s pronouncement in a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast Sunday echoed through social media.
“We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,” Biden said while walking through the Detroit auto show. “If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing.”
By Wednesday on Facebook, when a Kansas health department posted where residents could find the new booster shots, the first commenter remarked snidely:
“But Biden says the pandemic is over.”
The president's statement, despite his attempts to clarify it, adds to public confusion, said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington.
“People aren’t sure when is the right time to get boosted. ‘Am I eligible?’ People are often confused about what the right choice is for them, even where to search for that information,” Michaud said.
“Any time you have mixed messages, it’s detrimental to the public health effort,” Michaud said. “Having the mixed messages from the president’s remarks, makes that job that much harder.”
University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi said he's worried the president's pronouncement has taken on a life of its own and may stall prevention efforts.
“That soundbite is there for a while now, and it’s going to spread like wildfire. And it’s going to give the impression that ‘Oh, there’s nothing more we need to do,’” Salemi said.
“If we’re happy with 400 or 500 people dying every single day from COVID, there’s a problem with that,” Salemi said. “We can absolutely do better because most of those deaths, if not all of them, are absolutely preventable with the tools that we have.”
New York City photographer Vivienne Gucwa, 44, got the new booster Monday. She’s had COVID twice, once before vaccines were available and again in May. She was vaccinated with two Moderna shots, but never got the original boosters.
“When I saw the new booster was able to tackle omicron variant I thought, ‘I’m doing that,’” Gucwa said.
“I don’t want to deal with omicron again. I was kind of thrilled to see the boosters were updated.”
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PULLMAN, Wash. — A team lead by Washington State University's (WSU) Paul G. Allen School for Global Health found that spike proteins from the bat virus (Khosta-2,) can infect human cells and resist SARS- CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccines.
Both Khosta-2 and COVID-19 belong to the same sub-category of coronaviruses known as sarbecoviruses.
"Our research further demonstrates that sarbecoviruses circulating in wildlife outside of Asia – even in places like western Russia where the Khosta-2 virus was found – also pose a threat to global health and ongoing vaccine campaigns against SARS-CoV-2,” WSU Virologist Michael Letko said in a statement.
Letko said the discovery of Khosta-2 highlights the need to develop universal vaccines to protect against sarbecoviruses in general, rather than just against known variants of SARS-CoV-2.
“Right now, there are groups trying to come up with a vaccine that doesn't just protect against the next variant of SARS-2 but actually protects us against the sarbecoviruses in general,” Letko said.
Sarbecoviruses have been discovered in recent years, predominantly in bats in Asia. The Khosta-1 and Khosta-2 viruses were discovered in Russian bats in late 2020, and it initially appeared they were not a threat to humans.
“Genetically, these weird Russian viruses looked like some of the others that had been discovered elsewhere around the world, but because they did not look like SARS-CoV-2, no one thought they were really anything to get too excited about,” Letko said.
Letko said when researchers looked more into these viruses, they found these viruses could infect human cells.
"That changes a little bit of our understanding of these viruses, where they come from and what regions are concerning," Letko said.
Letko teamed with a pair of WSU faculty members to study the two newly discovered viruses. They determined Khosta-1 posed low risk to humans, but Khosta-2 demonstrated some troubling traits.
According to the study, the team found that like SARS-CoV-2, Khosta-2 can use its spike protein to infect cells by attaching to a receptor protein called angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which is found throughout human cells.
Next, they set out to determine if current vaccines protect against the new virus by using serum derived from human populations vaccinated for COVID-19.
The team saw that Khosta-2 was not neutralized by current vaccines. They also tested serum from people who were infected with the omicron variant, but the antibodies, too, were ineffective.
Letko said the new virus is lacking some of the genes believed to be involved in pathogenesis in humans. There is a risk, however, of Khosta-2 recombining with a second virus like SARS-CoV-2.
“When you see SARS-2 has this ability to spill back from humans and into wildlife, and then there are other viruses like Khosta-2 waiting in those animals with these properties we really don't want them to have, it sets up this scenario where you keep rolling the dice until they combine to make a potentially riskier virus,” Letko said.
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BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
On the afternoon of Oct. 25, 2021, Jacob Bergquist began his shooting spree at the Boise Towne Square mall by gunning down Jo Acker, who was working security and walked over after she noticed he was carrying a weapon, according to a 465-page police report just released to the Idaho Press.
His actions left three dead, including himself, and four injured. But after an investigation, law enforcement was unable to determine a motive for the violence.
The report details the nature of some injuries, life-saving measures, what was found in the shooter's home and the phone call he made that afternoon to someone who appears to be his father.
“(redacted) received a call from Jacob where he told him that he had just killed or shot a lot of people. Jacob told (redacted) that he and the family were to blame for what happened,” the report said. “Jacob hung up the phone after telling (redacted) ‘I have to go kill myself now.’”
In that phone call, the man who appears to be Bergquist's father recalled him saying the word transgender and hearing sirens in the background. The police report said the man was hopeful his son was confused about what had happened.
During the approximately 24 minutes the gunman was in the mall, Acker, 26, radioed that she was going to contact someone regarding an illegal firearm in the mall. As Bergquist turned away from their conversation, her shot her multiple times.
He ran into Macy’s and shot toward the escalators, where he killed Roberto Padilla Argüelles.
When Cpl. Brek Orton got inside the mall, he found Sgt. Brett Powell on the escalator with Padilla Argüelles, 49, who was lying face down.
Another officer arrived and the three started providing care, cutting Padilla Argüelles' shirt off and pulling him onto flat ground. Orton told Powell to apply pressure on his head wound with a towel. Then, Padilla Argüelles lost his pulse.
Orton started performing CPR, stopping only to put on a chest seal. Fire personnel arrived on the scene and Padilla Argüelles briefly regained a pulse. He later died from his injuries.
After he left the mall, Bergquist fled on foot and began shooting at officers, the report said.
One officer, Chris Dance, was hurt as a bullet fragment hit his eye, according to the report. He was pulled to the Café Zupas parking lot to be evaluated, where a sergeant noted there was debris trapped under his eyelid.
One of the bullets missed, hitting a white SUV and traveling through an elderly woman’s jaw and face. The bullet left through the driver’s side window.
Berquist, 27, shot himself.
The shooter was handcuffed behind a dumpster. Then law enforcement requested medics and began first aid. Officer Matt Janicek rode with Bergquist in the ambulance to Saint Alphonsus and stayed with him in the emergency room. Bergquist was later moved to the ICU. A Saint Alphonsus nurse informed Cpl. Brad Vickhammer that the gunman was on life support. He died around 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 26, the report said.
The investigation
On Oct. 26, law enforcement went to where Bergquist lived, according to the report. Dennis Herron performed CSI duties and went with detectives to help photograph and collect evidence. In the report, Herron wrote that he could see spent casings and brass around the stairs, as if they were fired at that location.
Inside, there were spent rounds of ammunition, ammunition boxes and firearm boxes. He found a small derringer-style firearm and a smaller tactical-style knife sitting on the kitchen counter and breakfast bar, the report said. The couch and some of the living room walls had what looked like bullet holes, Herron wrote.
In Bergquist’s bedroom, Herron found clothing, trash, firearms, firearm cases and ammunition boxes, among other things. Just outside the bathroom door was a small orange steel shooting target.
Bergquist had a felony conviction for retail theft in Illinois, the Idaho Press previously reported, but that is not on the list of offenses that prohibit firearm possession in Idaho.
Officers also conducted interviews with victims at area hospitals as well as people inside the mall. They reviewed video footage from the mall. Others wrote to the Boise Police Department offering information. They spoke to people who knew Bergquist, including a man who was renting a room to the shooter.
He described Bergquist as a "gun enthusiast" who was "always playing" with his firearms. He said a few months before, he started noticing Bergquist appeared depressed and borderline suicidal, according to the report. The man said he offered to pay for a therapist but Bergquist had refused professional help.
However, he said Bergquist had always been very anxious, depressed and paranoid. Bergquist hadn’t been paying much rent, the landlord said, and he was in the process of evicting him, although Bergquist had not yet been aware of the eviction.
“(redacted) described Jacob’s attire when he would leave the house as if he was ‘going to war all of the time,’” the report said.
At the mall, Detective Michael Miraglia and Officer Chuck Roath introduced themselves to an elderly couple who took shelter at a Lane Bryant store. Both were visibly shaken up, the report said. The woman had watched Bergquist shoot Acker and immediately grabbed her husband’s right arm and began pulling him toward Lane Bryant.
“During this time, (redacted) stated, 'I thought for sure we were going to get killed,’” the report said.
Staff members inside Lane Bryant took the two to a back storage room where they locked the door and hid.
“She did not want to let go of her husband thinking that the suspect was going to come through that door at any moment,” the report said.
Later that day, the two called to say the husband’s clothing had a bullet hole. Both were even more “startled” by “how close they were to getting shot and/or killed.”
Roath interviewed the three staff members at Lane Bryant who hid with the elderly couple.
“All parties requested victim services due to the tragic events,” the report said. “Some of which mentioned having PTSD and anxiety from this incident as well.”
More stories may follow as the Idaho Press continues to review the report.
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NEW YORK — Japan’s strict border restrictions will be loosened next month, the prime minister announced Thursday, allowing tourists to easily enter for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
In a news conference at the foot of Central Park in New York, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said independent tourists would again be welcomed as of Oct. 11, not just those traveling with authorized groups.
A cap on the number of tourists who are granted entry — which has been gradually increased this year — will be nixed altogether. And visa requirements that were imposed in response to the pandemic will also be rescinded.
Japan's tough COVID-19 restrictions have sent the number of visitors plummeting and its tourism industry reeling. Though foreign tourists were welcomed back in June after a pause of more than two years, the reopening has been confusing to many seeking to visit.
A previous announcement billed as an easing of the group tour rule turned out, for many tourists, to be anything but — introducing a convoluted process requiring obtaining clearance via a Japanese travel agent, often with hefty fees or commissions attached.
Now, the country appears to be returning to normal, in time for some to book travel for Japan's fall foliage. Kishida said a campaign aimed at bolstering the tourism industry would be rolled out offering discounts.
“We hope that many citizens will take advantage,” he said as he wrapped up a trip to New York.
Until now, Japan persisted in pandemic travel rules that many other countries have long since dropped. Some tourists have shifted vacations to countries including South Korea and Thailand, which have had looser rules of late.
Kishida spoke on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. In other remarks, he called for reform of the U.N. Security Council and dismissed any skepticism about Japan’s increased military spending, saying it remained a “peace-loving nation.”
He also said Japan would “boldly take necessary steps” to combat excessive fluctuation of the yen, which has dropped to its lowest level against the U.S. dollar in more than two decades.
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WASHINGTON — Stark repudiation by federal judges he appointed. Far-reaching fraud allegations by New York’s attorney general. It's been a week of widening legal troubles for Donald Trump, laying bare the challenges piling up as the former president operates without the protections afforded by the White House.
The bravado that served him well in the political arena is less handy in a legal realm dominated by verifiable evidence, where judges this week have looked askance at his claims and where a fraud investigation that took root when Trump was still president burst into public view in an allegation-filled 222-page state lawsuit.
In politics, “you can say what you want and if people like it, it works. In a legal realm, it’s different,” said Chris Edelson, a presidential powers scholar and American University government professor. “It’s an arena where there are tangible consequences for missteps, misdeeds, false statements in a way that doesn't apply in politics.”
That distinction between politics and law was evident in a single 30-hour period this week.
Trump insisted on Fox News in an interview that aired Wednesday that the highly classified government records he had at Mar-a-Lago actually had been declassified, that a president has the power to declassify information “even by thinking about it.”
A day earlier, however, an independent arbiter his own lawyers had recommended appeared skeptical when the Trump team declined to present any information to support his claims that the documents had been declassified. The special master, Raymond Dearie, a veteran federal judge, said Trump's team was trying to “have its cake and eat it,” too, and that, absent information to back up the claims, he was inclined to regard the records the way the government does: Classified.
On Wednesday morning, Letitia James, the New York State attorney general, accused Trump in a lawsuit of padding his net worth by billions of dollars and habitually misleading banks about the value of prized assets. The lawsuit, the culmination of a three-year investigation that began when he was president, also names as defendants three of his adult children and seeks to bar them from ever again running a company in the state. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
Hours later, three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit — two of them Trump appointees — handed him a startling loss in the Mar-a-Lago investigation.
The court overwhelmingly rejected arguments that he was entitled to have the special master do an independent review of the roughly 100 classified documents taken during last month's FBI search.
That ruling opened the way for the Justice Department to resume its use of the classified records in its probe. It lifted a hold placed by a lower court judge, Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee whose rulings in the Mar-a-Lago matter had to date been the sole bright spot for the former president. On Thursday, she responded by striking the parts of her order that had required the Justice Department to give Dearie, and Trump's lawyers, access to the classified records.
Dearie followed up with his own order, giving the Trump team until Sept. 30 to identify errors or mistakes in the FBI's detailed inventory of items taken in the search.
Between Dearie's position, and the appeals court ruling, “I think that basically there may be a developing consensus, if not an already developed consensus, that the government has the stronger position in a lot of these issues and a lot of these controversies,” said Richard Serafini, a Florida criminal defense lawyer and former Justice Department prosecutor.
To be sure, Trump is hardly a stranger to courtroom dramas, having been deposed in numerous lawsuits throughout his decades-long business career, and he has demonstrated a remarkable capacity to survive situations that seemed dire.
His lawyers did not immediately respond Thursday to a request seeking comment.
In the White House, Trump had faced a perilous investigation into whether he had obstructed a Justice Department probe of possible collusion between Russia and his 2016 campaign. Ultimately, he was protected at least in part by the power of the presidency, with special counsel Robert Mueller citing longstanding department policy prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president.
He was twice impeached by a Democratic-led House of Representatives — once over a phone call with Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the second time over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol — but was acquitted by the Senate on both occasions thanks to political support from fellow Republicans.
It remains unclear if any of the current investigations — the Mar-a-Lago one or probes related to Jan. 6 or Georgia election interference — will produce criminal charges. And the New York lawsuit is a civil matter.
But there's no question Trump no longer enjoys the legal shield of the presidency, even though he has repeatedly leaned on an expansive view of executive power to defend his retention of records the government says are not his, no matter their classification.
Notably, the Justice Department and the federal appeals court have paid little heed to his assertions that the records had been declassified. For all his claims on TV and social media, both have noted that Trump has presented no formal information to support the idea that he took any steps at all to declassify the records.
The appeals court called the declassification question a “red herring” because even declassifying a record would not change its content or transform it from a government document into a personal one. And the statutes the Justice Department cites as the basis of its investigation do not explicitly mention classified information.
Trump's lawyers also have stopped short of saying in court, or in legal briefs, that the records were declassified. They told Dearie they shouldn't be forced to disclose their stance on that issue now because it could be part of their defense in the event of an indictment.
Even some legal experts who have otherwise sided with Trump in his legal fights are dubious of his assertions.
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor who testified as a Republican witness in the first impeachment proceedings in 2019, said he was struck by the “lack of a coherent and consistent position from the former president on the classified documents.”
“It’s not clear," he added, “what Jedi-like lawyers said that you could declassify things with a thought, but the courts are unlikely to embrace that claim."
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(NEXSTAR) – Former child actor Ryan Grantham has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother.
Grantham, known for his roles in “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and the series “Riverdale,” pleaded guilty to killing his 64-year-old mother, Barbara Waite, in March of 2020 inside her British Columbia home. He was 21 at the time.
This week, a judge handed down the sentence in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, according to the CBC. Grantham won’t be eligible for parole for 14 years.
Justice Kathleen Ker called the case “tragic and heartbreaking,” according to the Canadian news outlet, and described during sentencing how Grantham shot his mother in the back of her head with a rifle as she played piano. He then recorded a GoPro video confessing to the crime and recording Waite’s body.
The court heard how Grantham lit candles, set up rosaries over the piano and prayed the next day, before embarking on what might have been killing rampage. The prosecution revealed that he loaded his car with gun, ammunition and Molotov cocktails before driving east to Ottawa, and had a printed map with directions to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s residence at Rideau Cottage, according to CTV News.
During the drive, however, he reconsidered and turned himself in to Vancouver police.
Grantham’s defense attorney argued that their client had been struggling with his mental health and had been attending counseling.
Ker called his decision to turn himself over to authorities a “saving grace” and told the courtroom that Grantham had been overwhelmed by suicidal and homicidal urges in the months before the killing, during which he increasingly used marijuana and watched violent online videos, according to the CBC.
The Squamish, British Columbia native, now 24, started acting when he was in elementary school, according to the Vancouver Sun, first landing a role in a fried chicken commercial. He eared 30 acting credits during his career, which spanned 2007 to 2019.
His last appearance was as Jeffery Augustine in “Riverdale,” a dark reboot of the Archie Comics.
If you or someone you know needs mental health help, there are multiple resources at MentalHealth.gov.
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FG urged to withdraw case against ASUU
To hasten an end to the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Founder, Christ Apostolic Church Mountain of Mercy, Prophet Moses Aladeolu, has called on the Federal Government to withdraw the court case against the ASUU.
Contained in his monthly message, Aladeolu premised his call on the need to protect the future of affected students and enhance the Nigerian education sector.
Aladeolu bemoaned that the impasse had not only bastardised the education sector but also increased the economic hardship, especially in those areas where universities are located.
Among other recommendations, he urged the Federal Government to set up an endowment to generate funds to address tertiary institutions’ development and demands in Nigeria.
The cleric also admonished Nigerians to support ASUU’s yearnings through financial donations for the upliftment of tertiary education in the country.
While expressing hope that an end to that ASUU strike is near, Aladeolu prayed that the Federal Government be sincere to prevent further strike actions in the nation’s education sector.
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In Leah Crawford’s first year teaching in Ladue, a parent asked for her son to be transferred to another class. She was the only Black teacher in the building. At 32, she felt like a late arrival to the profession, and she struggled to pick up on the culture and curriculum at the school.
However that early experience laid the seeds for growth, Crawford says. Fifteen years later, she’s still teaching in the same school. And she’s settled into her role as an advocate for students and racial equity in the school district. When it comes to doing the right thing for our kids, “we should all be a little uncomfortable,” she says. And while teaching students foundational skills is important, Crawford believes educators are also entrusted with teaching life skills, “so we talk about the racial upheaval happening because many parents don’t know how to talk about it.”
Her colleagues have rallied around her. Crawford was nominated an Excellence in Education award by her fellow teachers in Ladue School District.
Her colleagues have rallied around her. Crawford was nominated an Excellence in Education award by her fellow teachers in Ladue School District.
For tickets and information on the Milestone 35th anniversary Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Gala on Oct. 1, 2022, visit stlamerican.com. All net proceeds from this annual non-profit (501c3) event go towards scholarships for local, high potential students with financial needs.
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Alicia Ritz-Smith of Lockport has made a hobby of creating floral arrangements without real flowers.
When she retired in January of 2020, Ritz-Smith wanted to spend her new free time doing something creative, so she began making floral arrangements using sola wood flowers.
“I’ve done jewelry and paintings, and I like to be creative and stay busy,” Ritz-Smith said. “I saw these types of flowers in an ad on Facebook, and decided to buy them, and found that I love doing this.”
Sola is a lighter type of wood that isn’t too different from balsa wood. What makes sola wood flowers so unique in arrangements is that they are creative by design, Ritz-Smith said. They’re hand-carved and tied together onto stems, then they’re stained or painted.
“They can be dip tied, hand painted, air brushed, however you want to get the color on them,” she said.
Ritz-Smith’s full floral arrangements incorporate other faux plants made of fabric or plastic.
One way that Ritz-Smith has shared her hobby with others is by hosting a “build-a-bouquet” stand or a “bouquet bar” where a novice can assemble their own bouquet of 10 flowers of their choosing.
“I thought of how it would work if I did single stems of the flowers, added some pieces of greenery and filler, and helped people make their own,” she said. “Then we bundle them, tie them up in tissue and a cute little carrying bag the customer gets to take with them.”
Ritz-Smith’s bouquet bar was a standing feature of the weekly Newfane Farmers Market during the summer. She also has sold her flowers through Artisan Alley in Newfane, Windsor Village in Lockport and Modern Mercantile in Medina, where she’ll host another bouquet bar on Saturday during the Medina Area Partnership’s Ale in Autumn beer and cider-tasting event.
Ritz-Smith noted people are sometimes surprised to learn her bouquets are all-artificial.
“I love seeing the reactions of people when they find out that these aren’t real flowers, that they’re made of wood,” she said. “Sometimes you can’t tell the difference unless you’re up close and touching them.”
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There’s no longer a question as to whether Hyundai was developing a mid-engine supercar: It was.
But it no longer is, and that project has reportedly been canceled due to the projected price of $150,000. Would people have paid that price for a Hyundai? Maybe, but the automaker’s executives were weary given the acceptance and market adoption of the budget-focused N lineup currently on sale.
On Wednesday, Top Gear reported confirmation the project was indeed alive and being worked on after speaking with N division boss Albert Biermann. The executive also confirmed the project’s demise.
“We were working on an N supercar,” Biermann told the outlet.
The car never received a name and was simply referred to internally as “The Chairman’s Car,” according to Biermann.
Designed around a carbon-fiber tub chassis with a mid-engine layout, the car was created from the get-go to accept either a gas or hybrid powertrain. A hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain was also a possibility.
In 2019 Hyundai revealed a mid-engine sports car prototype dubbed the RM19. It was said to represent a development platform for future N brand products including a possible halo car. The mid-engine supercar was that halo car.
At the time, Executive Vice President and head of Hyundai Motor Group’s Product Division Thomas Schemera said, “The RM19 sports car signals future brand aspirations for Hyundai’s high-performance N brand, solidly moving N into the prestigious arena of supercar-level performance.”
The RM19 was powered by a direct-injected and turbocharged 2.0-liter turbo-4 ripped from the Hyundai TCR i30N race car and tuned to make somewhere between 360 and 390 hp. Power went to the rear wheels via a 6-speed direct-shift gearbox.
Motor Authority drove the car in 2019 and found it was simply brilliant. Stable at speed, willing to hold a line through turns, and quick to change directions, the RM19 wanted to push into corners, could get tail-happy, and the brakes needed better initial bite and higher pedal travel.
The RM project dated back to 2012 with the car itself cycling through RM14, RM15, RM17, and RM19 iterations. The numbers in the names referred to the year in which each was built.
Hyundai planned to build an RM20 model and replace the 2.0-liter turbo-4 in the RM19 with either a 2.3- or 2.5-liter turbo-4. The 6-speed transmission was going to be swapped for the automaker’s 8-speed, wet-clutch, dual-clutch gearbox.
Instead the RM20e was revealed in 2020. The Veloster-based midship prototype was powered by four electric motors connected to the wheels via a single-speed transmission. It was all powered by a 60-kwh battery and 800-volt electrical architecture. Hyundai said the prototype could sprint from 0-60 mph in less than 3.0 seconds and had a top speed of 155 mph.
Biermann told MA in 2019 the RM19’s chassis featured a unique rear subframe to mount a midship engine along with new double-wishbone rear suspension. The executive confirmed a production version of a mid-engine supercar would use the chassis.
The final design for the car was not locked in back in 2019, according to Biermann.
When asked by Top Gear if the mid-engine car would be Hyundai’s answer to the NSX, Biermann said, “Sure, but not boring.”
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Google co-founder Larry Page in 2010 teamed up with self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun to form Kittyhawk (initially Zee.Aero), a startup company with the aim of developing affordable, efficient, fully autonomous aircraft that could be used to transfer passengers across major cities in minutes, instead of hours the same traffic-filled routes would take by car.
Despite some successful test flights with various prototypes over the years, Kittyhawk announced on Wednesday via social media it is winding down. It also said it is evaluating what will happen next, suggesting the company or perhaps its employees will have a new focus at a later date.
We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk. We’re still working on the details of what’s next.
— Kittyhawk (@kittyhawkcorp) September 21, 2022
Kittyhawk’s main focus was the Heaviside, a model resembling a conventional aeroplane but with rotating propellers to enable vertical take off and landing (VTOL). It was powered by electric motors to help keep noise levels low, and prototypes were able to reach speeds of 180 mph and cover 100 miles on a charge. The company also demonstrated a prototype that could take off, fly, and land autonomously.
Kittyhawk also developed a single-seat, VTOL multicopter called the Flyer, which had manual controls. However, at a weight of just 250 lb, it fell into a category of aircraft that doesn’t require a pilot’s license, meaning it could be flown by just about anyone. However, the company abandoned plans for the Flyer in 2020.
Kittyhawk also had a model called the Cora, which was similar to the Heaviside. However, the Cora in 2019 was transferred to a joint venture between Boeing and another startup called Wisk Aero, and its development is ongoing. A spokesperson for Boeing told CNBC that Kittyhawk’s decision to wind down won’t affect Wisk Aero’s operations.
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SAN DIEGO (AP)Lars Nootbaar provided St. Louis’ first run in four games with a solo homer, and then rookie Brendan Donovan gave the NL Central leaders an even bigger lift.
Donovan hit his first career grand slam slam in the seventh inning to lead Albert Pujols and the Cardinals to a 5-4 victory against the San Diego Padres on Thursday, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Pujols was among the first teammates to greet Donovan in the dugout.
”It was one of the bigger swings I’ve had this year so that was cool for me,” Donovan said.
Pujols remained at 698 career homers, although he did drive two balls to deep left field, one for a single and one for an out on the warning track. The next stop in his pursuit of the 700-homer club is Dodger Stadium, where the Cardinals open a three-game series on Friday.
Manny Machado hit his 30th homer for the Padres, who had won five in a row. They currently hold the NL’s No. 2 wild-card spot.
Donovan’s slam made a winner of Jack Flaherty (1-1), who struck out nine in six innings. He allowed three runs, two earned, on four hits and four walks.
Giovanny Gallegos pitched the ninth for his 14th save.
The Cardinals, who had been shut out in their previous three games, got on the board when Nootbaar led off the fifth with a drive to right against Joe Musgrove for his 13th homer. That ended a scoreless streak of 31 2/3 innings by Padres starters, five outs shy of the club record.
”We know we have a great team and a great offense that’s going to turn at any point,” Donovan said. ”It was just a matter of who was going to do it. I’m pumped for Lars. That’s a big swing.”
Musgrove was gone after five innings and 72 pitches, and Adrian Morejon breezed through a perfect sixth to hold a 3-1 lead.
Alec Burleson singled leading off the seventh and Nootbaar drew a one-out walk, leading manager Bob Melvin to bring on Nick Martinez (4-4). Tommy Edman walked to load the bases before Donovan drove his first career grand slam deep to right-center.
Donovan said he was looking to drive a ball to the biggest part of the field and bring in a run when he connected on a 3-1 cutter. It was his fifth homer this season.
”It just kind of ran into my barrel a little more than I thought it would. I was still running hard. You never know,” he said.
Asked what going through his mind, he added: ”Don’t miss the base. … I’m just running hard and make sure I hit all the bases on the way by.”
Pujols, who plans to retire after this season, one-hopped the wall in left for a single in the second. He popped up in the fourth and then hit a drive off Morejon that Jurickson Profar caught on the track for the final out of the sixth. He flied out to center in the eighth.
Profar drove Flaherty’s second pitch deep into the seats in right for his fourth career leadoff homer and third of the season. He has 15 overall. Profar also hit an RBI double in the fifth.
Musgrove allowed one run and five hits, struck out four and walked two.
A CLIPPERS THING
Norman Powell of the Los Angeles Clippers, who went to San Diego’s Lincoln High, threw out a ceremonial first pitch. Teammate Paul George attended a game last homestand and then visited the victorious Padres clubhouse. Kawhi Leonard, who played two seasons at San Diego State, attended a game with his family earlier in the season. The Clippers moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: LHP Jose Quintana (5-6, 3.16 ERA) starts Friday night in the opener of a three-game series at the Los Angeles Dodgers. Andrew Heaney (3-2, 2.66 ERA) pitches for the NL West leaders.
Padres: LHP Sean Manaea (7-9, 5.18 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday night in the opener of a three-game series at Colorado, their last trip of the regular season. The Rockies are scheduled to start RHP Ryan Feltner (3-8, 6.05 ERA).
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O’s open crucial 4-game set vs. Astros in playoff chase
It could be a rewarding series on several levels for the Baltimore Orioles in the coming days.
Looks like a challenging one as well.
The Houston Astros will arrive to take on the Orioles in a four-game series, beginning Thursday night in Baltimore.
There’s lots at stake for the Orioles in their quest to reach the American League playoffs.
Houston (99-51) might be in cruise control, though there appears to be no let-up. The Astros, who’ll reach the 100-win mark with their next victory, have won four in a row and 10 of their last 11 games.
At least the Astros did the Orioles a favor this week by sweeping three games from the Tampa Bay Rays, who are one of the team’s Baltimore (77-71) is chasing in pursuit of a spot in the playoffs.
There’s also another element that could endear Baltimore fans to the Astros. Popular designated hitter Trey Mancini, who was traded to Houston from the Orioles at the trade deadline, will be back at Camden Yards for the first time in an opposing uniform.
“I hope the fans give him a great ovation,” Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said. “I’m sure they will. It’s going to be a lot of hugs from our side to him. Obviously, the fan base here loved him and still continues to love him. His teammates think so highly of him as well.”
The Astros will have some standouts in the spotlight.
Astros right-hander Justin Verlander (17-3, 1.78 ERA), starting pitcher for the series opener, has the best earned run average in the major leagues. He has gone 14 consecutive innings without allowing a run. That involves his last three appearances, including three shutout innings against the Orioles on Aug. 28.
Verlander left that game early because of a calf injury. He was out until returning for five hitless innings with nine strikeouts last Friday against the Oakland Athletics.
“I can tell there’s a little rust,” Verlander said, realizing there was a layoff of about three weeks.
With Houston having clinched a playoff spot as American League West champion, the Astros are bound to be extra cautious with Verlander’s workload.
“The fact that he’s on the mound is a good sign for us (and) for him,” manager Dusty Baker said.
Verlander is 10-5 with a 3.64 ERA in 23 career starts against Baltimore.
The Orioles are scrambling for offense. Hyde has changed the lineup both in terms of who’s in it and the order he places them.
Infielder Rougned Odor has been on the bench for four consecutive games.
“We’re giving some other guys some opportunities right now,” Hyde said. “You’re going to see (Terrin) Vavra play a little bit more, and I’ll still find spots for Roogie. But we’re just looking at some other players.”
Second baseman Jose Altuve was hit by a pitch on the left elbow Wednesday and removed from the game. That makes it unlikely he’d be in Thursday’s lineup unless there’s no lingering soreness.
Rookie right-hander Kyle Bradish (3-7, 5.05 ERA) will start for Baltimore, trying to recover from a personal two-game losing streak. But it hasn’t been all that bad, with the first of those defeats coming when he allowed one run in seven innings to the Boston Red Sox on Aug. 11.
Bradish blanked the Astros on two hits across eight innings in his longest outing of the season Aug. 26 in Houston.
–Field Level Media
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NEW YORK (AP)Boston Red Sox second baseman Trevor Story went back on the 10-day injured list on Thursday, 11 days after he left a game against Baltimore because of a bruised left heel.
Boston made the move retroactive to Monday and recalled first baseman/third baseman Bobby Dalbec from Triple-A Worcester.
The 29-year-old Story, a two-time All-Star, is hitting .238 with 16 homers and 66 RBIs after leaving Colorado and signing a $140 million, six-year contract with the Red Sox. He switched from shortstop to second with Boston.
He was on the injured list from July 16 to Aug. 27 because of a hairline fracture near his right wrist. He hit .362 (17 for 47) in 12 games following his return.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend, according to a tally Thursday by The Associated Press.
The scope of Iran’s ongoing unrest, the worst in several years, still remains unclear as protesters in more than a dozen cities — venting anger over social repression and the country’s mounting crises — continue to encounter security and paramilitary forces.
To prevent protests from spreading, Iran’s biggest telecom operator largely shut down mobile internet access again Thursday, said Netblocks, a group that monitors internet access, describing the restrictions as the most severe since 2019.
An anchor on Iran’s state television suggested the death toll from the mass protests could be as high as 17 on Thursday, but did not say how he reached that figure.
In a country where radio and television stations already are state-controlled and journalists regularly face the threat of arrest, the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard urged the judiciary on Thursday to prosecute “anyone who spreads fake news and rumors” on social media about the unrest. Widespread outages of Instagram and WhatsApp, which are used by protesters, also continued Thursday.
WhatsApp tweeted that it was “working to keep our Iranian friends connected and will do anything within our technical capacity to keep our service up and running.”
The demonstrations in Iran began as an emotional outpouring over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman held by the country’s morality police for allegedly violating its strictly enforced dress code. Her death has sparked sharp condemnation from the United States, the European Union and the United Nations.
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on the morality police and leaders of other Iranian security agencies, saying they “routinely employ violence to suppress peaceful protesters.”
Iranian police say Amini died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has cast doubt on that account. Independent experts affiliated with the U.N. said Thursday that reports suggested she was severely beaten by the morality police, without offering evidence.
In New York, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the death must be “steadfastly” investigated. But he also turned the tables on the country he was visiting for the U.N. General Assembly.
“What about the death of Americans at the hands of U.S. law enforcement?” Raisi asked about his country’s rival nation. He called for the “same standard” around the world in dealing with such deaths at the hands of authorities and lamented what he said were “double standards” in the West.
Of Amini’s death, he said authorities were doing what they needed to do. “It must certainly be investigated,” he said. “I contacted her family at the very first opportunity and I assured them we would continue steadfastly to investigate that incident. … Our utmost preoccupation is the safeguarding of the rights of every citizen.”
Niloufar Hamedi, a journalist who took photographs at the hospital after Amini’s death, was arrested in Iran on Thursday, according to the reporter’s lawyer, Mohammadali Kamfirouzi. He said her house was raided. There was no official comment.
The protests have grown in the last five days into an open challenge to the government, with women removing and burning their state-mandated headscarves in the streets and Iranians calling for the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself.
“Death to the dictator!” has been a common cry in the protests.
They are the most serious demonstrations since 2019, when protests erupted over a government hike in the price of gasoline. Rights groups say hundreds were killed in the crackdown that followed, the deadliest violence since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The latest protests are similarly widespread, but seem to have much broader support among the population, with Iranians of all walks of life expressing fury at Amini’s death and the government’s treatment of women.
Iran’s state-run media this week reported demonstrations in at least 13 cities, including the capital, Tehran. Videos online show security forces firing tear gas and water canons to disperse hundreds of protesters. London-based Amnesty International reported that officers also fired birdshot and beat protesters with batons.
Footage on social media from the northern city of Tabriz shows a young man allegedly shot by security forces bleeding out in the street as protesters shout for help.
Another video showed a policeman firing a shotgun at a demonstrator who was tearing down a pro-government billboard in the North Khorasan province. It’s unclear if he was wounded.
In another video, protesters can be seen torching a massive billboard showing Qassem Soleimani — Iran’s top general who was killed in a U.S. airstrike — in his hometown of Kerman. Soleimani has iconic status among government supporters.
At least nine people have died in the confrontations, according to an AP count based on statements from Iran’s state-run and semiofficial media. In a statement on Thursday, the Guard blamed the unrest on “Iran’s enemies.”
In Amini’s home province of Kurdistan, the provincial police chief said four protesters were shot dead. In Kermanshah, the prosecutor said two protesters were killed, insisting that the bullets were not fired by Iran’s security forces.
Three men affiliated with the Basij, a volunteer force under the Guard, were killed in clashes in the cities of Shiraz, Tabriz and Mashhad, semiofficial media reported, bringing the death toll acknowledged by officials to at least nine on both sides.
In the northern province of Mazandaran, angry crowds damaged or set fire to over 40 government properties and wounded 76 security officers, Rouhollah Solgi, the deputy governor, said.
Iran has grappled with waves of protests in the recent past, mainly over a long-running economic crisis exacerbated by Western sanctions linked to its nuclear program. Citizens also blame government corruption and mismanagement.
The Biden administration and European allies have been working to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear accord, in which Iran curbed its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, but the talks have been deadlocked for months.
From New York, where Raisi took the stage Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly, CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour said she had planned to confront Raisi about the protests in what would be his first U.S.-based interview.
But Amanpour wrote on Twitter that Raisi was a no-show. An aide told her the president refused to take part unless she wore a headscarf, given the “situation in Iran.” The Iranian government has not commented on the incident.
“I couldn’t agree to this unprecedented and unexpected condition,” the British-Iranian anchor wrote beside a photo of Raisi’s empty chair.
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Four occupied regions in Ukraine are set to start voting Friday in Kremlin-engineered referendums on whether to become part of Russia, setting the stage for Moscow to annex the areas in a sharp escalation of the nearly seven-month war.
Ukraine and its Western allies have rejected the votes as illegitimate and neither free nor fair, saying they will have no binding force.
A look at the referendums and their potential implications:
WHY ARE THE REFERENDUMS HAPPENING?
The Kremlin has used this tactic before. In 2014, it held a hastily called referendum in Ukraine’s Crimea region that also was denounced by the West as illegal and illegitimate. Moscow used the vote as a justification to annex the Black Sea peninsula in a move that was not recognized by most of the world.
On Tuesday, authorities in the separatist Luhansk and Donetsk regions that make up Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas abruptly announced that referendums on joining Russia would be held starting Friday. Moscow-backed officials in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in the south also called votes.
The moves followed months of conflicting signals from Moscow and separatist officials about the referendums that reflected the shifts on the battlefield.
During the summer, when the Kremlin hoped for a quick capture of all of the Donbas region, local officials talked about organizing the votes in September.
Russian troops and local separatist forces have taken control of virtually all of the Luhansk region, but only about 60% of the Donetsk region. The slow pace of Russia’s offensive in the east and the Ukrainian push to reclaim areas in the Kherson region made officials in Moscow talk about delaying the votes until November.
The Kremlin’s plans changed again after a lightning Ukrainian counteroffensive this month forced Russian troops to retreat from broad swaths of the northeastern Kharkiv region and raised the prospect of more gains by Kyiv’s forces.
Observers say that by moving quickly to absorb the captured territories into Russia, the Kremlin hopes to force Ukraine to halt its counteroffensive and accept the current areas of occupation or face devastating retaliation.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE REGIONS WHERE THE VOTE WILL OCCUR?
The 2014 vote in Crimea was held under the close watch of Russian troops shortly after they had overtaken the peninsula, where most residents were pro-Moscow.
Separatists who have controlled large chunks of the Donbas since 2014 have long pushed for joining Russia and have shown little tolerance for dissent. When the rebellion erupted there, the separatists quickly organized referendums in which a majority voted to join Russia, but the Kremlin ignored the outcome.
The two regions declared their independence from Ukraine weeks after Crimea’s annexation, triggering eight years of fighting that President Vladimir Putin used as a pretext to launch an invasion in February to protect their residents.
In the southern regions, which were occupied by Russian troops in the opening days of the invasion, anti-Russian sentiments run strong. Hundreds of pro-Kyiv activists have been arrested, with many alleging they were tortured. Others were forcibly deported, and tens of thousands fled.
Since Russian forces swept into the Kherson region and part of the Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow-appointed authorities there have cut off Ukrainian TV broadcasts, replacing them with Russian programming. They have handed out Russian passports to residents, introduced the ruble and even issued Russian license plates to pave the way for their incorporation into Russia.
Moscow-appointed administrations have come under frequent attacks by members of Ukrainian resistance movement, which has killed local officials, bombed polling stations and other government buildings, and helped the Ukrainian military target key infrastructure.
WHAT IS BEING SAID ABOUT THE LEGITIMACY OF THE VOTE?
The five-day voting process will take place in the absence of independent monitors and offer ample room for rigging the outcome.
When the referendums were announced earlier this week, the West immediately questioned their legitimacy. U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz referred to them as shams, and French President Emmanuel Macron said they would have “no legal consequences.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also called them “noise” to distract the public.
HOW IS RUSSIA’S MILITARY MOBILIZATION RELATED?
A day after the referendums were announced, Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists to bolster his forces in Ukraine, and he also declared he was ready to use nuclear weapons to fend off any attacks on Russian territory.
The Defense Ministry said the mobilization — Russia’s first since World War II — is intended to call up about 300,000 reservists with previous military experience. Observers noted, however, that Putin’s decree is broad enough to allow the military to swell the numbers if needed. Some reports suggest the Kremlin’s goal is amassing 1 million men, in a secret part of the decree.
The Kremlin long has shunned taking such a deeply unpopular move, wary of fomentin discontent and eroding Putin’s support base.
The latest Ukrainian counteroffensive exposed Russia’s inability to control the 1,000-kilometer (over 600-mile) front line with its current limited force of volunteers. Military experts say it will take months to make the newly called-up reservists ready for combat.
HOW IS PUTIN’S NUCLEAR THREAT RELATED?
As Putin struggles for ways to avoid new humiliating defeats, he signaled his readiness Wednesday to use nuclear weapons to protect the country’s territory — a blunt warning to Ukraine to stop pressing its offensive into the regions now set to become part of Russia.
Observers saw Putin’s threat as an effective ultimatum to Ukraine and its Western backers to freeze the conflict or face a potential escalation all the way to a nuclear conflict.
While Russian military doctrine envisages using atomic weapons in response to a nuclear attack or aggression involving conventional weapons that “threatens the very existence of the state,” Putin’s statement further lowered the threshold for their use.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council chaired by Putin, amplified the president’s threat Thursday, saying that after absorbing the four Ukrainian regions, Moscow could use “any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons” to defend them.
The mention of strategic nuclear forces, which include intercontinental ballistic missiles and long-range bombers, sent a warning that Russia could target not only Ukraine but also the U.S. and its allies with nuclear weapons in case of an escalation.
Zelenskyy dismissed the nuclear threats as bluster and vowed to free all occupied territories.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose slightly last week with the Federal Reserve pushing hard to cool the economy and tamp down inflation.
Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Sept. 17 rose by 5,000 to 213,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Last week’s number was revised down by 5,000 to 208,000, the lowest figure since May.
First-time applications generally reflect layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which evens out some of the weekly volatility, fell by 6,000 to 216,750.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark short-term borrowing rate by another three-quarters of a point in an effort to bring down persistent, decades-high inflation. Though gas prices have steadily retreated since summer, prices for food and other essentials remain elevated enough that the Fed has indicated it will keep raising its benchmark interest rate until prices come back down to normal levels.
Fed officials have pointed to the remarkably resilient U.S. labor market as added justification for raising rates five times this year, including three 75-basis point hikes in a row.
The Fed’s move boosted its benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since early 2008. The officials also forecast that they will further raise their benchmark rate to roughly 4.4% by year’s end, a full point higher than they had envisioned as recently as June.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that before Fed officials would consider halting their rate hikes, they want to be confident that inflation is retreating to their 2% target. He noted that the strength of the job market is fueling pay gains that are helping drive up inflation.
He emphasized his belief that curbing inflation is vital to ensuring the long-term health of the job market.
“If we want to light the way to another period of a very strong labor market,” Powell said, “we have got to get inflation behind us. I wish there was painless way to do that. There isn’t.”
For now, businesses remain desperate to find workers, posting more than 11 million job openings in July, meaning there are almost two job vacancies for every unemployed American.
Earlier this month, the Labor Department reported that employers added still-strong 315,000 jobs in August, though less than the average 487,000 a month over the past year. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7%, largely because hundreds of thousands of people returned to the job market. Some didn’t find work right away, so the government’s count of unemployed people rose.
The U.S. economy has been a mixed bag this year, with economic growth declining in the first half of 2022. Investors and economist worry that the Fed’s aggressive rate hikes could force companies to cut jobs and tip the economy into a recession.
Online real estate companies RedFin and Compass recently announced job cuts as rising interest rates have cooled the housing market. The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that sales of existing homes fell again in August, the seventh straight monthly decline.
Other high-profile layoffs announced in recent months include The Gap, Tesla, Netflix, Carvana and Coinbase.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Irate that a session to discuss a proposed smoking ban during a major casino industry conference was snuffed out, casino workers and patrons opposed to smoking in the gambling halls held a noisy protest outside the meeting Thursday.
About 100 people rallied in the rain underneath a walkway outside the Hard Rock casino, demanding that the state Legislature act on a bill to ban casino smoking that has the support of more than half of state lawmakers and Gov. Phil Murphy.
The bill has been stalled without a hearing in a state Senate or Assembly committee, and a similar measure died without a vote last year as well.
Thursday afternoon, the East Coast Gaming Congress was to have included a panel discussion on casino smoking, an issue that is roiling workers, customers and lawmakers not only in New Jersey but in states including Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and others.
It was scrapped when the casino industry representative, Resorts Casino President Mark Giannantonio, withdrew. He recently became president of the Casino Association of New Jersey, the Atlantic City casinos’ trade association which vehemently opposes a smoking ban.
“The CANJ is running and hiding right now,” said Peter Naccarelli, a Borgata dealer and a leader of a push by casino workers to ban smoking in their workplaces. “They have no logical arguments.”
Lamont White, another Borgata dealer opposed to smoking, said the casino industry’s main argument has always been, “We’d lose money, and money is more important than casino workers lives.”
“That’s all they have to say,” he said.
Giannantonio declined comment on Thursday’s demonstration, referring a reporter to a statement the casino association issued earlier this month in which it said “an immediate smoking ban would have a significant adverse effect on Atlantic City.”
Murphy, the state’s Democratic governor, has promised to sign the bill if it passes. But Legislative leaders have thus far refused to set a hearing date for a committee in either the Senate or Assembly, which has to happen before the bill can move forward.
Murphy addressed Thursday’s conference, but did not mention the proposed ban in any detail.
But during an afternoon session, Eric Hausler, CEO of Greenwood Racing, which owns Pennsylvania’s smoke-free Parx casino, said that policy has been successful.
“So far, so good,” he said.
When reopening in 2020 after the initial wave of the pandemic, Hausler said, Parx decided to remain smoke-free, “for better or worse. If you look at our market share numbers, they’re holding up just fine. We intend to stay that way. Our customers have gotten used to it.”
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More than 1,500 people are or have been homeless in Jackson County, Missouri, so far this year. Ahead of the winter months, Kansas City Council could soon enact a five-year strategic plan that works to lower those numbers.
The city’s Houseless Task Force and the House and Community Development Department announced today a plan called Zero KC, which aims to end homelessness in the city.
One of its main goals is to create 200 new rapid rehousing units for households with children and 300 new housing units for unhoused people in permanent supportive housing programs.
Rayana Parks-Shaw, fifth district council person and chair of the Houseless Taskforce, said the city will also be able to better coordinate services for people experiencing homelessness.
“Many organizations are doing great work by themselves, but because they have limited resources, and they continue to work in silos, they don't necessarily get the overall support that they need,” Parks-Shaw said. “WhatZero KC the strategic plan will do for us is allow those organizations to stop working in silos. Together we will see the success that we haven't seen before because they've all been working individually.”
The plan also commits to preserving all affordable housing stock for extremely low-income residents.
The success of increasing the housing supply relies in part on the passage of a bond initiative that, if passed, will allow the city to invest up to $50 million in creating and preserving affordable housing. That ballot initiative will be voted on in the Nov. 8 election.
Mayor Quinton Lucas said the Housing Trust Fund will also be used to create more than 350 housing units.
“Whether you're folks who are looking for more workforce housing in Kansas City, whether you're folks who are looking for housing and you've been living on the streets, whether there's somewhere in between. That's something that we'll continue to work with,” Lucas said.
However, the city’s commitment to creating affordable housing for extremely low-income people has been called into question by some advocates. An ordinance passed by Kansas City Council last month amended the city’s affordable housing policy and alters who qualifies for affordable housing.
Under the new policy, developers must make 20% of their units affordable to households making 60% or less of the median family income instead of the old policy’s requirement that at least 10% of the units be for extremely low-income individuals.
Advocates say the new policy doesn’t ensure an adequate supply of extremely affordable housing. But Lucas said the city remains committed to creating more housing under the new policy.
“We are channeling our highest incentives, our greatest support as a city, to those that are providing and building housing for those who are experiencing housing insecurity or experiencing homelessness,” he said.
Another of the plan’s top priorities is decreasing public encampments – but not through camp sweeps. Instead, the Zero KC implementation includes coordinating nonprofits and community groups to address the needs of unhoused people and connect them to social services and healthcare with the ultimate goal of moving them to permanent housing.
Limiting camp sweeps without first conducting in-depth outreach work could conflict with a new Missouri law. The legislation, which went into effect in late August, makes it a Class C misdemeanor for unhoused people to sleep on state-owned land.
Under the law, the Missouri attorney general can sue local governments that don’t enforce regulations on unauthorized public camping. Cities that don’t abide by those bans could lose all state and federal funding for housing and homelessness.
Lucas said he isn’t worried about the state law hindering the city’s homeless outreach efforts.
He called the law “heinous” and “cruel” and said that it is in violation of Missouri’s Hancock Amendment because it would increase the city’s responsibility – in this case, the Kansas City Police Department’s responsibility to sweep camps – without an adequate increase in funding.
“I believe none of us here believe that the city will be exposed to substantial liability by not just clearing encampments at the earliest opportunity as the state law dictates,” Lucas said at a press conference. “I think we'll be vastly more productive in terms of how we get people housing services, careers, healthcare, and beyond – rather than the state approach, which is just looking to push people from place to place and continue to make Missouri a difficult place for people to live.”
The mayor also said the city will continue to evaluate other ways to work with the state to help people find housing.
Beyond the Zero KC plan, the city launched a program this week to employ 15 people experiencing homelessness through the Public Works department. The department will pay the workers, employed through Hope Faith Ministries and Creative Innovators, $15 an hour to clean neighborhoods and conduct snow removal.
They will work between 25-30 hours per week and receive job training, bank accounts, ID services, and other necessary services.
While Zero KC is a strategic plan meant to guide further action, Parks-Shaw said she is optimistic about the plan’s implementation, which will redirect locally available federal funds towards the effort.
“The first step we will do is seek council overall approval, but then establish an implementation team that will work to establish the milestones,” Parks-Shaw said. “It's a five-year plan. So most of the action happens in the first three years. We know that we will have to continue to update this living and breathing document to adjust to the needs of the city.”
The Houseless Taskforce will hold three public listening sessions on the plan: 9-11 a.m. Sept. 24, 9701 Marion Park Drive; 5-7 p.m. Sept. 26 at 5340 NE Chouteau Trafficway; and 5-7 p.m. Sept. 28 at 3200 Wayne Avenue.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s morality police and leaders of other government agencies after the death of a woman who’d been detained over an accusation she violated the country’s dress code by wearing her Islamic headgear too loosely.
The sanctions come after at least nine protesters have been killed in clashes with Iranian security forces since violence erupted over the weekend because of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated the leaders of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the Army’s Ground Forces, the Basij Resistance Forces and other law enforcement agencies for the sanctions, which deny them access of their properties and bank accounts held in the U.S.
“These officials oversee organizations that routinely employ violence to suppress peaceful protesters and members of Iranian civil society, political dissidents, women’s rights activists, and members of the Iranian Baha’i community,” the Treasury said in a news release.
The morality police detained Amini last week, saying she didn’t properly cover her hair with the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, which is mandatory for Iranian women. Amini collapsed at a police station and died three days later.
Police say that she died of a heart attack and deny that she was mistreated. The government released video footage purporting to show the moment she collapsed. Her family says she had no history of heart trouble, and her death in police custody has triggered daring displays of defiance from protesters, in the face of beatings and possible arrest.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. calls on the Iranian government “to end its violence against women and its ongoing violent crackdown on free expression and assembly.”
“Mahsa Amini was a courageous woman whose death in Morality Police custody was yet another act of brutality by the Iranian regime’s security forces against its own people,” Yellen said.
Amini’s death has prompted Iranians to take to the streets of Tehran and other parts of the country. Many Iranians, particularly the young, have come to see her death as part of the Islamic Republic’s heavy-handed policing of dissent and the morality police’s increasingly violent treatment of young women.
An anchor on Iran’s state television suggested the death toll from the mass protests could be as high as 17, but he did not say how he reached that figure.
Iran has faced global condemnation over Amini’s death, with the U.N. human rights office calling for an investigation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden pledged on Thursday in his first face-to-face meeting with new Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to work to strengthen relations with the Pacific nation after what he said had been some “rocky times” in the past.
Meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, the leaders discussed tensions in the South China Sea, the long-standing security relationship between the United States and the Philippines, stresses to the global economy and food security caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and other issues.
Biden also noted that the Philippines was among U.S. allies to quickly condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We’ve had some rocky times, but the fact is it’s a critical, critical relationship, from our perspective. I hope you feel the same way,” Biden said at the start of the meeting.
The relationship hit bumps during the presidency of Marcos’ predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte.
Human rights groups say Duterte’s “war on drugs” resulted in thousands of extrajudicial killings. According to human rights groups, virtually all the killings, carried out by police and armed vigilantes, occurred without due process, and the vast majority of victims were unarmed, poor low-level offenders. The U.S. government has suspended counter-narcotics assistance to the Philippine National Police since 2016.
The White House in a statement said that the leaders discussed “the importance of respect for human rights.”
Thursday’s talks come amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and China over America’s Taiwan policy. The “One China” policy recognizes Beijing as the government of China but allows informal relations and defense ties with Taiwan. China claims the self-ruled island as its own.
Marcos, the son and namesake of the country’s former dictator, took office in June. He has said he wants to pursue closer ties with China, which has also sought to court him.
Biden has put a premium on improving relations with Pacific nations in the early going of his presidency. He sees a rising China as the most threatening economic and national security adversary to the United States.
Marcos underscored to Biden that the Philippines is “your partners, we are your allies, we are your friends.” He also thanked the U.S. for its “massive” assistance during the pandemic, including sharing COVID-19 vaccines, and for its role in ensuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
“The role of the United States in maintaining the peace in our region is something that is much appreciated by all the countries in the region, and the Philippines, especially,” Marcos said. He added, “The 100-plus-year-old relationship between the Philippines and the U.S. continues to evolve as we face the challenges of this new century.”
Before Marcos took office earlier this year, Kurt Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the White House National Security Council, acknowledged that “historical considerations” could present “challenges” to the relationship with Marcos Jr. That appeared to be a reference to long-standing litigation in the United States against the estate of his father, Ferdinand Marcos.
A U.S. appeals court in 1996 upheld damages of about $2 billion against the elder Marcos’ estate for the torture and killings of thousands of Filipinos. The court upheld a 1994 verdict of a jury in Hawaii, where he fled after being forced from power in 1986. He died there in 1989.
The elder Marcos placed the Philippines under martial law in 1972, a year before his term was to expire. He padlocked the country’s congressional and newspaper offices, ordered the arrest of many political opponents and activists and ruled by decree.
Marcos Jr. has bristled at critics who have branded his father a dictator. He’s also repeated his father’s justification that martial law was necessary to fight growing Muslim and communist insurgencies. “It was necessary to — in my father’s view at the time — to declare martial law because a war was really raging already at the time,” he said in a recent interview with ALLTV.
The Biden administration has sought to build strong relations with the younger Marcos administration. The two leaders have had good engagement at the cabinet level, according to the White House.
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For more AP coverage of the U.N. General Assembly, visit https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations-general-assembly
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Which One A Day vitamins are best?
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Thursday it will launch a training program with the goal of sending its own astronauts, including a woman, into space next year.
The kingdom is actively promoting science and technology as part of its wide-ranging Vision 2030 plan to overhaul its economy and reduce its dependency on oil.
The plan, championed by Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also calls for greater integration of women into the workforce of the conservative Muslim country. Saudi Arabia lifted a long-standing ban on women driving in 2018.
“The Saudi Astronaut Program, which is an integral part of the Kingdom’s ambitious Vision 2030, will send Saudi astronauts into space to help better serve humanity,” the Saudi Space Commission said in a statement.
“One of the astronauts will be a Saudi woman, whose mission to space will represent a historical first for the Kingdom.”
The first Arab or Muslim to travel to space was Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan bin Salman, a half-brother of the crown prince and an air force pilot who was part of the seven-member crew of NASA’s Discovery mission in 1985. He later served as head of the Saudi Space Commission from 2018 until last year, when he was appointed an adviser to King Salman.
The neighboring United Arab Emirates has the Arab world’s leading space program, having launched a probe into Mars’ orbit in February 2021. The UAE plans to launch its first lunar rover in November. If the moon mission succeeds, the UAE and Japan, which is providing the lander, would join the ranks of only the U.S., Russia and China as nations that have put a spacecraft on the lunar surface.
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The fact the Rangers are holding Barclay Goodrow out of team scrimmages in an abundance of caution should not be of concern, because as we saw during the playoffs, nothing will keep the utility forward off the ice when the real games begin.
Coming off a broken ankle that sidelined him for 11 games over the first and second rounds of the postseason — before his inexplicable return in Game 6 against the Hurricanes — Goodrow is easing himself back into competitive play. Considering how important a role Goodrow plays on this team, it’s understandable why the organization would rather be safe than sorry.
“It feels good,” Goodrow said Thursday afternoon after the first on-ice day of training camp at MSG Training Center in Tarrytown. “How it feels today compared to a month ago even, it’s night and day. If the season started tomorrow I could play no problem, but we just talked about taking it slow and making sure it’s 1,000 percent.
“It’s a long season, it’s something I don’t want to be nagging around and lingering going into the season. You may as well let it heal completely and make sure it’s 100 percent.”
Goodrow said his plan is to participate in at least some of the six preseason games, which begin on Monday against the Islanders at Madison Square Garden. Head coach Gerard Gallant echoed that sentiment, but noted that it may not be right away.
The way-too-early-to-matter line combinations have Goodrow skating on the fourth line, but Gallant said the winger will see some time on the top unit next to Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad. Sammy Blais, who is back in the mix after an ACL tear sidelined him for a majority of last season, is getting the first look in that right-wing spot.
However, Gallant has shown an affinity toward plugging Goodrow in all areas of the lineup.
“I was happy to see Sammy get through that scrimmage and play the way he did,” Gallant said. “I’m sure he was really excited because it’s been [10] months since he really played. He worked hard. It was good, he got through it and everything was really good. I know confidence-wise for him, it was huge.
“Goodrow is going to be there a little bit and [Sammy is] going to be there a little bit. We’ll see where we go from there. Great day for him.”
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The University of Wyoming soccer team opened Mountain West play Thursday with a strong showing against the league’s reigning regular season and tournament champions.
The Cowgirls played New Mexico to a 1-1 draw at the Madrid Sports Complex, moving to 1-3-4 on the season. The Lobos have won the regular-season title three of the past four years.
“New Mexico is a great team,” Wyoming coach Colleen Corbin said. “They are well-coached, well-managed and well-organized. They have a very real understanding of what they’re trying to do. I felt like all year we’ve been trying to be the same, and today I truly felt that our entire team showed up in a big way. We were committed to our rolls and invested everything we had to come out and compete.”
Thursday’s match was a physical one, featuring a total of 26 fouls and seven yellow cards.
Junior Alyssa Bedard landed the largest punch of the day for Wyoming, scoring off a free kick from senior Jamie Tatum for the game’s first goal in the 60th minute. The score marked Bedard’s second of the season, while the assist was Tatum’s first of the year and 10th of her career, moving her into a tie for sixth all-time in program history.
The Lobos responded with their lone goal of the game during the 66th minute. Jaelyn Hendren found the back of the net off a feed from Zaria Katesigwa.
Wyoming won the shot battle 13-8, with six shots on frame, compared to four for New Mexico. Tatum logged a season-high six shots, while freshman Alyssa Glover and junior Nikayla Copenhaver had two each.
UW freshman goalkeeper Allyson Fischer, making her fourth consecutive start, made a career-high three saves. New Mexico’s Alli Davis registered five saves.
“Ever since conference (play) ended last year, we were very intentional about getting bigger, faster, and stronger and competing at a high level,” Corbin said. “That’s a physical, strong, and gritty New Mexico team, and I felt like we showed up and went toe-to-toe with them.
“I’m super proud of our effort.”
Next up for Wyoming is a road game at San Diego State on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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Marlene Kay (Christensen) Weed 1960-2022 Marlene Kay (Christensen) Weed, age 62, was born July 29, 1960, at the Kimball County Hospital in Kimball, Nebraska to Lloyd and Gwen Christensen. She lived in the Bushnell area and attended Bushnell High School where she graduated as class Valedictorian in 1978. She attended Doane College (University) in Crete, Nebraska, where she was a member of Cardinal Key, Omega Psi Theta sorority, the Doane Players Theatre design team, and was crowned "Duchess of Doane" at the 1981 Homecoming Game. Marlene graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art in May, 1982. She was married to Ray Eugene Weed on June 19, 1981 at the Greenwood Ranch near Dalton, Nebraska. Marlene and Ray were married for 41 years and lived in Goodyear, Arizona, where Marlene was treated at the Cancer Treatment Center of America. She passed away at home and went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on September 18, 2022. Marlene was a gifted artist and floral designer. She loved her Shelties, being a mother and foster parent, and was a devoted friend of Jesus, serving as a Sunday school teacher and Gideon Auxiliary member for many years. Marlene is survived by her husband and two grown children, Christian Weed (wife Sara, daughter Eleanor) of Flagstaff, Arizona, and Angelica Weed (son Nikia) of Goodyear, Arizona; her two brothers, Norman (wife Shelly) of Kimball, Nebraska, and Mike of Nashville, Tennessee. She was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents, and her younger brother, Jason. Her Celebration of Life Ceremony will be held on October 15, 2022 at 11:00 AM at Calvary Chapel Cheyenne, Wyoming, with Graveside Services at 4:00 PM at the Bushnell Cemetery. Memorials can be made to the Gideons International for placing Bibles, to Calvary Chapel of Cheyenne, Wyoming, or to the United Methodist Church of Bushnell, Nebraska, where Marlene and son, Christian, were baptized.
To plant a tree in memory of Marlene Weed as a living tribute, please visit Tribute Store.
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Scientists say waist-to-hip ratio better measure for healthy weight than BMI
LOS ANGELES - A new study is calling into question the validity of body mass index (BMI) as a practical way of measuring healthy weight in patients.
Researchers for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm say waist-to-hip ratio, and not body mass index is a better measure of healthy weight which may also predict early death better than BMI.
Scientists say the new method should replace BMI, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention commonly cites as a preferable tool to analyze weight and health.
BMI is calculated by taking a person's weight in kilograms and dividing by the square of height in meters, with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 considered healthy. But this measurement doesn't take into account fat distribution, the researchers said.
"It doesn't consider where fat is stored -- whether it's accumulated around the hips or the waist. As a result, BMI doesn't reliably predict risk of disease or mortality," said Irfan Khan, lead researcher and a medical student at University College Cork's College of Medicine and Health in Cork, Ireland.
Khan explained that waist-to-hip ration helps doctors better and more accurately calculate levels of abdominal fat which wraps around organs deep inside the body and can heighten various risks for people who are over weight.
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Bears' Smith misses second straight practice with hip injury
CHICAGO - Chicago Bears star linebacker Roquan Smith missed his second consecutive practice Thursday because of a hip injury, leaving his status for this week’s game in question.
The Bears are scheduled to host former coach Lovie Smith and the Houston Texans on Sunday. Smith has played every snap this season.
Defensive coordinator Alan Williams said before practice he expected him to be ready to play "as far as I know."
Smith, who does not have an agent, missed the preseason after he opted to "hold-in" with contract extension talks at a standstill. The 2018 first-round draft pick went public with a trade request while accusing new general manager Ryan Poles of negotiating in bad faith by making take-it-or-leave-it offers he said would have been bad for the linebacker market. The standoff ended with no new deal and Smith participating in his training camp practice on Aug. 20.
The Bears opened with a surprising, rain-soaked win over San Francisco at Soldier Field in coach Matt Eberflus’ debut. They lost last week to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field.
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Traffic nightmare: Giant tomato spill causes several crashes on highway
Published: Sep. 22, 2022 at 8:50 PM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
VACAVILLE, Calif. (KOVR) - A tractor-trailer spill had a California highway looking like the start of a pizza party.
Hundreds of crushed tomatoes spilled on Interstate 80 in Vacaville, California, and caused several collisions on Monday.
Officials said the truck driver lost control and hit another car before slamming into the center median.
Tomatoes covered the highway after the crash, which caused a serious road hazard.
Authorities said a car got stuck in the spill, leading to a chain reaction of crashes involving four vehicles.
The California Highway Patrol said a person suffered significant injuries in the incident and two others suffered minor injuries.
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Boeing Co. will pay $200 million to settle charges that the company and its former CEO misled investors about the safety of its 737 Max after two of the airliners crashed, killing 346 people.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday that it charged the aircraft maker and former CEO Dennis Muilenburg with making significant misleading public statements about the plane and an automated flight-control system that was implicated in the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
Neither Boeing nor Muilenburg admitted wrongdoing, but they offered to settle and pay penalties, including $1 million to be paid by Muilenburg, who was ousted in December 2019, nine months after the second crash.
The SEC said Boeing and Muilenburg knew that the flight system, known as MCAS, posed a safety issue but promised the public that the plane was safe. The SEC said they also falsely claimed that there had been no gaps in the process of certifying the plane in the first place.
"Boeing and Muilenburg put profits over people by misleading investors about the safety of the 737 Max all in an effort to rehabilitate Boeing's image" after the crashes, said Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC's enforcement division.
Boeing said it has made "broad and deep changes across our company in response to those accidents" to improve safety and quality.
"Today's settlement is part of the company's broader effort to responsibly resolve outstanding legal matters related to the 737 Max accidents in a manner that serves the best interests of our shareholders, employees and other stakeholders," said the Arlington, Virginia-based company.
A new Max operated by Indonesia's Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea in October 2018, and another Max flown by Ethiopian Airlines nosedived into the ground near Addis Ababa in March 2019. In each crash, MCAS pushed the nose down after getting faulty readings from a single sensor, and pilots were unable to regain control.
The crashes led regulators around the world to ground the plane for nearly two years until Boeing made fixes to the flight-control system, which was designed to help prevent aerodynamic stalls when the nose points up too sharply. Neither plane that crashed was in danger of stalling.
The SEC accused Boeing of misleading investors in a press release after the Indonesia crash which said the plane was "as safe as any airplane that has ever flown the skies." Boeing knew when it made that claim that MCAS would need to be fixed and was already designing changes, the SEC said.
After the crash in Ethiopia, Muilenburg said on a call with investors and Wall Street analysts and during Boeing's annual shareholder meeting that the company had followed the normal process for getting the plane certified by regulators. But by then Boeing — in response to a subpoena from federal prosecutors — had already found documents indicating that it didn't disclose key facts about MCAS to the Federal Aviation Administration, the SEC charged.
Boeing reached a separate $2.5 billion settlement with the Justice Department last year. Most of that money went to airlines whose Max jets were grounded
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A new phase of California’s weed legalization begins as the state prepares to make it illegal for a company to fire, or not hire, someone simply for their off-the-clock marijuana use.
California is the seventh state to do it, but a potentially pivotal one for the national attitude toward weed.
At the very least, it’s an emboldening step for the millions of California adults who report using marijuana.
At a cannabis store near San Diego, it could mean a tax boom.
The elimination of job risk helps boost usage numbers.
"There were a lot of myths and stigma associated with cannabis and with having a cannabis store in the community. So it’s nice to see that none of those myths came true, and a lot of that stigma is starting to disappear," said David Dallal, a California cannabis store manager.
Cannabis industry insiders and even some law enforcement hope that destigmatizing weed will push more weed users to shop at legitimate dispensaries.
SEE MORE: The Big Business Of Cannabis
It could be a potentially life-saving choice as fentanyl-laced drugs flow over the southern border and end up on the black market.
But the stigma around marijuana is still challenging for people like Dr. David Berger, who’s trying to battle a new restriction in Florida that limits the amount of medical marijuana a person can get in a day.
"Some of my patients, for instance, because of their medical needs, they might need to have more milligrams than what the state is allowing for," said Berger.
Florida is allowing doctors to appeal the limit for those who need it. But that takes time — a potentially-serious wait for users who need the drug.
"If a person is out of their medicine, they could be out of their medicine for a good week or almost two and really have no way of accessing it," said Berger.
It's a deep contrast to the new reality in California, where lawmakers hope making marijuana irrelevant to employability will set a new standard for the country.
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Automaker General Motors has faced high demand for its electric version of the popular Hummer, and now the company has stopped accepting new orders.
Reservations to buy one have ended after around 45,000 orders came in for the truck or pick-up version, as well as for the SUV version of the vehicles.
The company was able to ship out less than 400 trucks between January and June and says it doesn't expect to deliver SUVs until spring of 2023.
The cars come at a steep price tag depending on the trim. The Hummer EV could run you anywhere between $84,000 to $104,000, depending on features and style.
But that hasn't stopped diehard fans of the behemoth truck from wanting to try out a less gas-guzzling electric version. Customers are also left wondering exactly when they might receive their order.
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I bet you didn’t know you spend nearly 90% of your time inside your vehicle. The designers broke all the rules regarding the inside of the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, including more screen space than any other vehicle in its class.
Here’s what is unique on the inside of the Wagoneer, you have a 10.1-inch digital touch screen right up on the center console. That’s your infotainment screen, then you have a 10.3-inch digital gauge cluster.
The best part is for the second-row occupants, they get two 10.1-inch screens. The Cargo space is plentiful, twenty-seven cubic feet of space with all the seats up, but it gets better. This vehicle has an automatic third row, you can fold the seats down, and they will fold electronically.
Between the Wagoneer and the Grand Wagoneer, they all come available with a three-panel moonroof, and they want you to know that on the inside, there’s no spot where you don’t get a great view.
And while you’re in the School pickup line, you should have a full body massage with five different massaging settings. A full body massage in a low, medium, or high setting, and your children could do nothing but sit there and watch mom or dad while they get a full relaxing body massage.
There is no test complete with an SUV with three-row seating capacity without me getting in the back. I am 6 ft 3, and the Grand Wagoneer and Wagoneer have plenty of seating space for me in the back row. In fact, I could even cross my legs, which is excellent for somebody at my height. Other great features back here are USB and USB-C charging and the ability to control your seat.
If you like the wagon and Grand Wagoneer as much as we do, you can find out more by going to Wagoneer.com There, you’ll find out everything you need to know about New York’s new favorite three-row luxury SUV
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(Our Auto Expert) — Have you ever seen a Chevrolet Geo Metro? It was a three-cylinder car that had 67 horsepower. A top speed of about 100 miles an hour cost about eight thousand dollars when it came to the market in 1995. Let’s jump forward to today, 27 years later, Toyota has the Corolla GR.
This vehicle also has three cylinders but has 300 horsepower. It has a top speed of 142 miles an hour, and Toyota says this vehicle has well over 100,000 hand-raisers–people who want and indicated they would like to buy the vehicle. The vehicle also has over a million views on YouTube. I can’t say I ever really wanted a Geo Metro. I can say this vehicle would look great in my garage.
While lockdown was underway, Toyota was working to build a family of new and exciting members that allowed unconventional fun. Not what you’d come to expect from the world’s number-one automaker.
The GR family starts with three vehicles. The first up, the GI 86, the special 10th-anniversary edition, will be limited to eight hundred and sixty units with a special cat back exhaust.
GR Supra, after three years of development, Toyota has a manual and says the GR supra can get zero to sixty in just four seconds. That’s faster than you can put on your seatbelt.
The GR Corolla is the newest sibling in the GR family and the hottest hatch produced by Toyota. From the outside, it looks ready to fly. Akio Toyoda sent this vehicle back to the designers and engineers because he wanted it lower and wider several times. When it came back, it was Perfect. This vehicle has functions everywhere. All of the intakes are useful to keep this car aerodynamic on track.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — When it comes to Texas cuisine a few food items come to mind, barbecue and Tex-Mex. There’s no doubt some of the best of these two food worlds can be found anywhere in the Lone Star State.
Recently a list of the top 100 taco spots in the country was released by Yelp and Texas takes up over 10% of the list and it’s all thanks to you and the food you make for your community. Whatever kind of taco you’re searching for to satisfy your tastebuds, Texas has you taken care of.
Yelp says, “This is an all-time list of the top 100 taco spots in the U.S., according to Yelp. We identified businesses in the restaurants and food categories with a large concentration of reviews mentioning ‘taco,’ then ranked those spots using a number of factors including the total volume and ratings of reviews mentioning ‘taco.'”
Without further ado, here’s a look at where you can not only get the best tacos in Texas but in the country as well:
- Cinco De Mayo Taqueria – Spring
- Flavia’s Kitchen – Austin
- The Taco King – Cypress
- Tacos Dona Lena – Houston
- Yellow City Street Food – Amarillo
- Titas Taco House – Humble
- La Lupita Taco Restaurant
- Taqueria Nuevo Leon – Carrollton
- Cuantos Tacos – Austin
- Sangria On The Burg – San Antonio
- Fish Company Taco – Galveston
- Tranky’s Tacos – Garland
- Mami Coco – Dallas
- Granny’s Tacos – Austin
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Columbus, Ga. (WRBL)-Tis the season for cooler temperatures, pumpkin spice lattes, and all things fall. Let’s talk a little bit about the science behind the day that makes this season so great.
First, let’s talk about the start of fall.
In 2022 Fall will begin on Thursday, September 22 at 9:04 PM EDT. This is the exact moment that the sun’s rays will be over the equator. This happens at the exact same time all across the globe, just in different time zones. The sun will be moving from north to south, heading towards the southern hemisphere as they prepare for the start of spring and eventually summer.
This is also the day that the sun will rise exactly due east and set exactly due west for mainly everyone except for those living at the north and south poles. This happens due to the sun moving on the celestial equator, which is an imaginary line above the actual equator. If you were to look up at noon, the sun would appear directly overhead, this only happens for both the spring and autumn equinox.
Equal days and nights:
Sort of!
Equinox is Latin for equal and night, so you can expect close to 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of the night. The reason this happens all has to do with the way the earth is tilted. First, we know that the Earth is tilted on its axis at 23.5 degrees. During a solstice, the tilt of the axis will either point towards or away from the sun. This means that the northern and southern hemisphere trade-off when they receive the sun’s light and warmth directly. During an equinox, the Earth’s tilt and even orbit combine in a way that the axis doesn’t exactly tilt away or toward the sun thus, the days and nights are somewhat equal but maybe a few minutes off.
Where do we go from here:
From here, our days will become shorter, and our nights will become longer. The loss of daylight will continue until we head towards the winter solstice. This is the day that the tilt of the axis will be away from the sun in the northern hemisphere. This will mark the shortest day of the year or the longest day of the year in the southern hemisphere.
The first day of winter will be Wednesday, December 21, 2021.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Jobs come and go, but opportunities to travel the country and eat tacos while doing it seems to be a once-in-a-blue-moon type of gig.
Well, enter in the blue moon of opportunities; Yelp is now searching for its first-ever Taco Trailblazer and alongside, named the top 100 taco spots in the entire country. Not-so-surprisingly, Texas is well represented on the list.
Yelp announced, “From soft shell supporters to breakfast taco buffs, Yelp is helping taco fans find the best spots for their favorite Mexican staple. In honor of National Taco Day on October 4th, Yelp is kicking off its search for its first-ever Taco Trailblazer to go on a tour of the United States. The Taco Trailblazer will be awarded $20,000 to blaze the Yelp Taco Trail and visit top-rated spots.”
That’s right the lucky trailblazer will be given $20K and hit the Yelp Taco Trail and visit the top-rated spots the country has to offer. This lucky person will be spending some significant time in Texas during this effort as the state had 14 locations named to the top 100 list.
Here’s what you need to know for this job opportunity:
- Throughout a four-month journey, Yelp’s Taco Trailblazer will create three videos per month and a total of three blog posts about their experience at each taco spot.
- To apply, taco fans should submit a 30-60 second video at TacoTrailblazer.Yelp.com explaining why they’re qualified to tour the taco trail.
- Applicants will also be asked to create a Yelp collection of their favorite taco-serving businesses. See Yelp’s Support Page for steps on how to create a collection.
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GEORGIA (WRBL) – Are you a fan of the Netflix series “Stranger Things”? You can now own an expensive piece of memorabilia central to the series.
The house the Byers family used to call home in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, is for sale and can be your real life new home in Georgia. The house is located at 149 Coastline Road in Fayetteville.
The new listing was posted on the Facebook page Zillow Gone Wild.
According to Zillow, the Byers house is for sale for $300,000. It was listed for sale on Sept. 19, 2022. As of the posting of this article, the Zillow listing has been visited 44,137 times.
According to Zillow, the house “is being sold ‘AS-IS’ with no seller disclosure, SERIOUS buyers only.”
The 1,846 square foot house, which featured in season 1 as the original Byers house, has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Zillow said the house “makes for a PERFECT Airbnb, short-term rental, or personal residence for someone willing to take it on.”
Beware though! If you do buy the house, we can’t guarantee you won’t be sucked into The Upside Down.
Also, it is requested that all visitors “Do not feed the Demogorgon!!”
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(WTVO) — Pepsi is marking the arrival of fall with a limited-time S’mores Collection.
The soda will come in three different flavors including Toasted Marshmallow, Graham Cracker, and Chocolate.
- Toasty Marshmallow has a marshmallow base with layers of toasted notes to mimic a light fireside flavor.
- Graham Cracker is infused with notes of honey and cinnamon to achieve the perfect balanced graham cracker flavor profile.
- Chocolate contains dominant notes of cocoa throughout, with slight hints of vanilla to create extra creamy sweetness, mimicking a slightly melted chocolate flavor.
The new beverage variant will come in 7.5 oz mini cans “to encourage mixing and matching your way to the perfect combo,” Pepsi said. The company offered several ways to mix the drinks:
- The Classic – Everyone’s favorite for a reason! Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Start with a cold glass, add 1/3 Graham Cracker, 1/3 Chocolate and 1/3 Toasty Marshmallow.
- Marshmallow (is for) Lovers – If you find yourself standing over the fire with three or even four marshmallows on one stick, this recipe is for you. Start with a cold glass, add 1/2 Toasty Marshmallow, 1/4 Graham Cracker and 1/4 Chocolate.
- For the Graham – Often overlooked but always reliable, the graham cracker is more than a vehicle for chocolate and marshmallow—the notes of honey and cinnamon create the staple ingredient in any s’more creation. Start with a cold glass, add 1/2 Graham Cracker base, 1/4 Chocolate, 1/4 Toasty Marshmallow and top with an extra splash of Graham Cracker.
- The Chocolate Connoisseur – For those who enjoy indulging in a rich, gooey tasting s’more, pour some chocolate… and then pour some more! Sit back and revel in all that chocolaty goodness, marveling at this chocolaty s’more creation. Start with a cold glass, add 2/3 Chocolate, 1/3 Toasty Marshmallow and a splash of Graham Cracker.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A federal judge is siding with a group of Republican Attorney Generals in blocking a COVID-19 mandate for Head Start.
The permanent injunction from Judge Terry Doughty blocks the requirement that toddlers wear masks and that staff and volunteers be vaccinated.
“Although vaccines arguably serve the public interest, the liberty interests of individuals mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccine outweigh any interest generated by the mandatory administration of vaccines,” wrote Judge Doughty in issuing the ruling.
“I am grateful Judge Doughty applied the law and blocked this federal overreach from burdening some of our neighbors most in need. “As I said when we first filed suit, masking two-year-olds and force vaccinating teachers in our underserved communities would impede child development and cost jobs; fortunately, this attack has been thwarted”, said Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
The permanent injunction covers 24 states, including Louisiana and Mississippi.
Click here for the ruling from Judge Doughty.
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) leads his Republican challenger, Blake Masters, by 8 points in his reelection bid, according to a new AARP poll.
The poll found that 50 percent of respondents support Kelly compared to 42 percent who support Masters. The Libertarian nominee, Marc Victor, has 4 percent support, and 4 percent said they were undecided.
Kelly’s lead shrinks slightly in a head-to-head match-up, 52 percent to 45 percent.
The poll found Democrats almost entirely unified behind Kelly, with the incumbent receiving 95 percent of Democratic support. Masters has support from 80 percent of Republicans, while Kelly has support from 11 percent of GOP respondents.
Kelly also leads Masters among independents by 8 points.
The incumbent is viewed much more favorably in the poll than the challenger: Kelly is viewed favorably by 50 percent and unfavorably by 46 percent, while Masters is seen favorably by only 37 percent and is seen unfavorably by 54 percent.
Kelly and Masters are evenly tied among white voters in the state, and Kelly has a 35-point lead among Hispanics, which make up almost a third of the state’s population.
Kelly also leads among voters age 50 and older by double digits, fueled by his more than 20-point lead among Hispanics 50 and older and by only trailing among white voters 50 and older by 3 points.
The poll follows an Ohio Predictive Insights poll released Wednesday that showed Kelly leading Masters by 12 points.
Kelly has consistently led Masters in recent polling. FiveThirtyEight’s polling average shows Kelly leading Masters by about 8.5 points.
The AARP poll was conducted among 1,332 likely voters, including a statewide representative sample of 500 likely voters, an oversample of 550 likely voters age 50 and older and an additional oversample of 282 likely Hispanic voters age 50 and older. The poll was conducted from Sept. 8 to 15.
The margin of error for the statewide sample was plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, the margin for the total sample of voters 50 and older was plus or minus 3.4 percentage points and the margin for the Hispanic voters 50 and older was plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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The controversial permitting reform bill unveiled by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) late Wednesday has only a slim chance of passing the Senate next week, as Republicans don’t want to give the West Virginia senator a victory after he resurrected President Biden’s tax and climate agenda in late July.
Republican senators, who had been shut out of negotiations over the permitting bill’s language, said Wednesday they don’t expect it to pass if attached to a short-term government funding bill that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to bring to the floor next week.
GOP senators didn’t get a chance to look at the bill to reform permitting for energy projects until 6 p.m. Wednesday but predicted earlier in the day that if it fell short of a stronger permitting reform proposal offered by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), they wouldn’t vote for it.
Capito and Barrasso said Wednesday evening their staffs were reviewing the 91-page bill and said they would hold off on making final verdicts until they know more about it.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) outlined multiple problems with the draft of Manchin’s bill that circulated earlier this summer during a presentation he delivered to a Senate Republican lunch Wednesday.
His message to GOP senators was clear: Unless Manchin fixed multiple provisions that were problems for the fossil fuel industry, Republicans shouldn’t support it.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an advisor to the Senate GOP leadership, said he couldn’t see a government funding measure pass next week with Manchin’s permitting reform attached.
“I don’t know what Sen. Schumer’s plans are, whether he’s going to attach it to the CR. I doubt it’s going to pass,” Cornyn said, referring to a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government.
Capito, who has a competing permitting reform bill, said Wednesday afternoon that Manchin hasn’t shared any of the details of his legislation before it was made available to the media and general public.
Republicans say they don’t want to reward Manchin by passing his permitting reform resolution because Schumer is bringing it to the floor as part of a deal he struck with the West Virginia senator in July to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which implemented a 15 percent corporate minimum tax and included $369 billion in energy investments to combat climate change.
“It’s going to be extremely difficult to do just because of the circumstances surrounding the deal that was made,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.).
Rounds said he would take a close look at Manchin’s proposal if he’s willing to shift it substantially closer to the reforms that Capito has proposed but predicted that’s not likely to happen.
“I’m not sure he’d have the support of Democrats then. I think that it’s going to be a very difficult deal to get done,” Rounds added.
Even Democrats who support Manchin’s permitting reform bill say they won’t support it if it is rewritten to mirror Capito’s proposal as part of an effort to secure more Republican votes.
Manchin will need more than 10 Republicans to pass his permitting reform bill, as several Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have signaled opposition to marrying the Manchin permitting reform language with a short-term spending bill.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is circulating a letter with the support of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sanders urging Schumer to keep separate permitting reform and a short-term government funding bill that needs to pass by the end of next week.
But Merkley on Wednesday stopped short of threatening to vote against the government funding resolution if it includes permitting reform. He explained that he drafted the letter to draw attention to the concerns environmental justice groups have over Manchin’s bill.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has also released a statement saying the permitting reform language should not be added to must-pass legislation to keep the government funded.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) issued a statement Wednesday evening declaring his opposition to the Manchin bill because it would approve the construction of a hundred miles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline through his home state and he was not adequately consulted.
“I cannot support the Mountain Valley Pipeline-related provisions in this legislative text. Over 100 miles of this pipeline are in Virginia, but I was not included in the discussions regarding the MVP provisions and therefore not given an opportunity to share Virginians’ concerns,” he said.
Schumer was spotted having an intense conversation with Kaine just off the Senate floor shortly after the Virginia senator put out his statement.
Schumer faces an even bigger problem on the Republican side of the aisle, where opposition to Manchin’s bill has coalesced over the last two weeks.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday praised Capito’s permitting reform bill as a better option than Manchin’s.
“Very predictably, this background deal is crumbling before our eyes,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, making reference to Schumer’s promise to pass Manchin’s permitting reform bill before the end of September.
He predicted that Republicans would find Manchin’s bill insufficient to get enough domestic oil, gas and coal projects up and running to reduce the cost of mounting energy bills.
“Every indication thus far suggests [it] will be weak reform in name only legislation,” he said.
He promised all 50 Republicans would vote for Capito’s permitting reform bill if it’s included in the short-term funding measure instead of Manchin’s proposal.
“If our colleague across the aisle wants real permitting reform, Sen. Capito’s fantastic bill only needs Sen. Manchin plus nine more Democrats to clear this chamber,” McConnell said.
“Otherwise it would appear the senior senator from West Virginia traded his vote on a massive liberal boondoggle in exchange for nothing,” he said, referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in August because of Manchin’s support.
Manchin on Wednesday said he still expects Schumer to include his permitting reform proposal in the continuing resolution, which needs to pass by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.
He said Republicans may change their minds about supporting his bill once they review it more closely.
“When they see it — all sides need it. You can’t build anything in America today. So if you want to have transmission lines … you’re going to have to have it. So we’re hoping common sense kicks in sooner or later,” Manchin told reporters.
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More Georgia voters said they were likely to vote for Gov. Brian Kemp (R) than his Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams less than two months out from Election Day, according to a new poll.
About 49 percent of Georgians said they definitely or probably would vote for Kemp, compared to 45 percent of voters who said the same for Abrams, according to a Monmouth University poll published Thursday.
The poll also shows 46 percent of voters would definitely not vote for Abrams, while 37 percent said they would definitely not back Kemp. The poll did not ask about a head-to-head matchup between the two.
The race for Georgia’s next governor is one of the most closely watched elections heading into November. Kemp narrowly beat out Abrams for the position in 2018.
Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said 35 percent of Georgians falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen. While Kemp tightened election security laws in his state following the election, he did not overturn the results.
“Some election conspiracists may still hold a grudge against Kemp for not stepping in to overturn the 2020 result, but it’s unlikely to cost him much support,” Murray said in a statement. “They may not be enthusiastic, but they’ll still vote for him over Abrams.”
Like many Democrats, Abrams has focused much of her campaign on abortion rights following the Supreme Court’s decision over the summer to strip away the constitutional right to abortion.
Following the Supreme Court decision, Georgia banned abortions after six weeks.
According to the Monmouth poll, 51 percent of voters say abortion laws are too strict in Georgia, while 12 percent say they are not strict enough and 25 percent say it is about right.
Abrams has also campaigned on tightening gun control laws, while Kemp has loosened them during his governorship.
Only 14 percent of Georgians name abortion as a top concern and three percent name gun control as a top concern.
“These are hot button issues that motivate Democrats, but that number may not be large enough to help Abrams in this race,” Murray said.
The Monmouth University poll was conducted Sept. 15 to Sept. 19 among 601 Georgia registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus four percentage points.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) expanded her lead over Republican challenger Tudor Dixon to 16 points in a poll from the Detroit Free Press released on Thursday.
Fifty-five percent of likely voters said they would support the current governor, compared to the 39 percent who said they would back the Trump-endorsed GOP candidate, the poll found. Six percent were undecided.
Whitmer’s lead has grown by 5 points since an August Free Press poll that showed her at 50 percent and Dixon at 39 percent.
Some Republican strategists have voiced concerns recently that hard-line GOP candidates, like Dixon, may be alienating voters. Dixon said in an interview in August that she only supported abortion exceptions if the life of the mother is in danger and suggested that rape victims could heal through giving birth.
Abortion was a top issue among likely Michigan voters in the Free Press poll, tied with inflation at 24 percent.
Whitmer is also leading Dixon in favorable ratings. While 52 percent of likely voters rated Whitmer favorably, only 24 percent said the same of Dixon. Both candidates had 44 percent unfavorable ratings.
The current governor is drawing on bipartisan support for her reelection bid, with more than 150 Michigan Republicans launching Republicans for Whitmer this month.
The Free Press poll was conducted by EPIC-MRA of Lansing, Mich., from Sept. 15 to 19 with 600 likely voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) The Cares Krewe headed back to Sam’s Club gas station on Youree Drive to pay for more local’s gas.
There, they met an unforgettable mother-daughter duo, Crystal and Layla.
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) The Cares Krewe headed back to Sam’s Club gas station on Youree Drive to pay for more local’s gas.
There, they met an unforgettable mother-daughter duo, Crystal and Layla.
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SHREVEPORT, La (KTAL/KMSS) – The wait is over, Clays for Camp Tiger is back. Clays for Camp Tiger is a fundraiser put on each year by LSU Health Shreveport at the Shreveport Gun Club.
All proceeds will go towards Camp Tiger, a week-long summer camp for special needs children. Clays for Camp Tiger ensures that families do not have to go out of pocket for their kids to attend.
The clay shooting tournament takes place Saturday, Oct. 1, from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Registration includes a Clays for Camp Tiger Towel, a drawstring shooter bag, and lunch from Silver Star BBQ. Participants can also expect to go through at least 10 stations. The gun raffle drawing will take place at the end of the tournament.
Clays for Camp Tiger Director Connor Plaisance is also a student with LSU Health Shreveport. Plaisance says he’s honored to give back to the community in this capacity.
“Whether it’s going to the aquarium or events that we do, we have like a rodeo. Just stuff like that. Just making sure that you know, that we have enough funds to ensure that these kids have a awesome thing, and that’s why we do it. We do it for them because we want these kids to have a great experience,” said Plaisance.
Registration can be found online.
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(Loving Living Local)- Jarrod Sterrett shares about upcoming performance at 1582 on Austin in Jefferson, Texas.
Musician and vocalist, Jarrod Sterrett joined host, Susan Kirton on set today to discuss an upcoming performance in Jefferson, Texas. Jarrod Sterrett & The Hired Guns are one of the busiest honky tonk bands in all of Texas. The band has had 6 singles on the Texas Radio Chart each one went to number 1 on cdtex downloads. Every week, they can be found on the road packing dancehalls and bars across Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Louisiana.
Sterrett cited his influences as country legends Johnny Cash, George Strait, Dwight Yoakam, and Texas Native Aaron Watson, before serenading viewers with his band’s song “Pasadena”. Sterrett also teased that a new song, “Devil of Del Rio” will be released soon.
You can see Jarrod Sterrett and The Hired Guns perform live at 1852 on Austin in Jefferson, Texas this Saturday, September 24, 2022, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. This is a one-night-only show.
Born out of the beautiful Planters Bank & Mercantile building in downtown Jefferson, Dave Echols and Mickey Morrison transformed a historic structure into an incredible restaurant and music venue inspired by their joint passion for music and love of guitars. 1852 on Austin offers an enticing menu of elevated comfort classics and delicious cocktails. They are open for lunch and dinner Wed thru Saturday, with a Jazzy Brunch on Sunday. Come for the food. Stay for the music and fun.
1852 on Austin is located at 124 East Austin Street in Jefferson, Texas. You can contact the venue at (903) 601-4457 for dinner reservations or visit their website for more information about the venue or tickets.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The next drawing for the newest Arkansas lottery game, LOTTO, is coming up Saturday night.
Lottery officials said that this game differs from Powerball and Mega Millions. It can only be played and won in Arkansas. There were no winners for Wednesday’s starting jackpot of $250,000. Saturday’s jackpot is $280,000. Ticket prices are $2.
To win the jackpot, players will have to match the first six numbers that are drawn. Players will have a chance to match a bonus number to multiply smaller prizes.
Executive director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Eric Hagler said that sales have already surpassed expectations, meaning more money for scholarships.
“We are pleased that our players have embraced this new draw game,” Hagler said. “It’s exciting to offer a game exclusive to Arkansas with a life-changing starting jackpot. And more sales means more money for scholarships.”
The drawing will be held at 9 p.m. on Saturday, September 24.
For more information on LOTTO, visit MyArkansasLottery.com/LOTTO.
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 1.1 million vehicles in the U.S. because the windows can pinch a person’s fingers when being rolled up.
Tesla says in documents posted Thursday by U.S. safety regulators that the automatic window reversal system may not react correctly after detecting an obstruction.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that’s a violation of federal safety standards for power windows. An online software update will fix the problem, Tesla says.
The recall covers certain 2017 to 2022 Model 3 sedans and some 2020 and 2021 Model Y SUVs. Also included are some Model S sedans and Model X SUVs from 2021 and 2022.
Tesla discovered the problem during production testing in August. Owners will be notified by letter starting Nov. 15. The company says in documents that vehicles in production got the update starting Sept. 13.
Tesla was not aware of any warranty claims or injuries due to the problem as of Sept. 16, according to the documents.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – An armed man entered a business in north Highland threatening to harm himself Thursday afternoon, according to Shreveport police.
Shreveport police say the man entered a Walgreens located at the corner of N. Market Street and Ravendale around 1 p.m. armed with a knife and was threatening to harm himself.
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Customers and employees were evacuated from the store.
Police say the man was escorted out of the building unharmed at 2:30 p.m.
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(NEXSTAR) – Former child actor Ryan Grantham has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother.
Grantham, known for his roles in “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and the series “Riverdale,” pleaded guilty to killing his 64-year-old mother, Barbara Waite, in March of 2020 inside her British Columbia home. He was 21 at the time.
This week, a judge handed down the sentence in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, according to the CBC. Grantham won’t be eligible for parole for 14 years.
Justice Kathleen Ker called the case “tragic and heartbreaking,” according to the Canadian news outlet, and described during sentencing how Grantham shot his mother in the back of her head with a rifle as she played piano. He then recorded a GoPro video confessing to the crime and recording Waite’s body.
The court heard how Grantham lit candles, set up rosaries over the piano and prayed the next day, before embarking on what might have been killing rampage. The prosecution revealed that he loaded his car with gun, ammunition and Molotov cocktails before driving east to Ottawa, and had a printed map with directions to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s residence at Rideau Cottage, according to CTV News.
During the drive, however, he reconsidered and turned himself in to Vancouver police.
Grantham’s defense attorney argued that their client had been struggling with his mental health and had been attending counseling.
Ker called his decision to turn himself over to authorities a “saving grace” and told the courtroom that Grantham had been overwhelmed by suicidal and homicidal urges in the months before the killing, during which he increasingly used marijuana and watched violent online videos, according to the CBC.
The Squamish, British Columbia native, now 24, started acting when he was in elementary school, according to the Vancouver Sun, first landing a role in a fried chicken commercial. He eared 30 acting credits during his career, which spanned 2007 to 2019.
His last appearance was as Jeffery Augustine in “Riverdale,” a dark reboot of the Archie Comics.
If you or someone you know needs mental health help, there are multiple resources at MentalHealth.gov.
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CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a Shreveport man on Thursday for child pornography.
Detective Thomas Lites said in a release that 26-year-old, Terrence Thompson possessed and distributed videos and images of children as young as 3 and 4 years old involved in sexual intercourse with adults.
During the investigation, cyber crime detectives found six files in Thompson’s possession.
Thompson was arrested and booked into Caddo Correctional Center on six counts of pornography involving juveniles. He is held without bond.
Police say more charges could follow as the case is still under investigation.
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NEW BOSTON, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) — Reagan Hancock‘s mother took the stand Thursday morning in the trial of a woman accused of killing her daughter and cutting her unborn baby from her womb.
Taylor Parker is on trial in Bowie County, charged with capital murder and kidnapping in the death of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn baby, Braxlynn Sage.
Over 30 minutes of heartwrenching testimony, Jessica Brookes spoke tenderly of her daughter as she talked about how close they were and how they talked every day.
She said she hired Taylor Parker to do Reagan‘s engagement photos and later, her wedding photos. She said she was not aware of Taylor and Reagan being in much contact again until Reagan announced her pregnancy and learned it was a girl. There was some talk about Taylor doing her pregnancy photos, but Brookes says Taylor told her she had some medical issues and the photo shoot never happened.
Brookes testified about how she was a little surprised to hear that Taylor and Reagan were getting together on October 7 since she didn’t know them to hang out that much.
Jessica Brookes went on to describe the morning she found her daughter’s body. She was at work when her son-in-law Homer called her, concerned that he could not reach her. She told him she would head to the house to check on her.
On the way, Brookes says she stopped at her granddaughter Kynlee’s daycare, thinking she would know quickly something was really wrong if she wasn’t there. She explained to the daycare worker why she was checking on Kynlee. When the daycare worker came back, Brookes broke down on the stand as she recalled the moment the daycare worker turned around and told her “Kynlee’s not here.”
Brookes described feeling fear at this point, as she got back in her car and headed to Reagan’s house. She called Marcus as she pulled into the police station on the way, considering going in and telling them something was wrong. But Marcus told her she should go to the house first and see if Reagan’s car was there. So she did.
Brookes grew even more concerned when she turned the corner to see the garage door was open at the house on Austin Street. It was never left open.
Through tears, Brookes described how she saw streaks of blood in the driveway when she got out of her car. Brookes says she told herself pets cut their paws and leaves streaks like this, but then she saw more streaks on the driveway and in the garage as she approached the door.
“There’s a bloody fingerprint on my baby’s doorknob,” Jessica recalled on the stand. “So I take my work shirt because I knew something was wrong, and I turned the doorknob, and the door opened just enough I could see a bloody shoeprint on the kitchen floor.”
Brookes says she backed out, shocked.
“If my baby’s in there and she’s hurt, I’ve gotta get to her,” Brookes recalls thinking. So she opened the door back up and took in the bloody scene. Her daughter was on the floor, face down, with her arm over her head. She was was facing away. Her blonde hair was stained red with blood. The kitchen was disheveled. That was not like Reagan and Homer, who keep their house clean.
“I knew she was gone, but I said, ‘Reagan! Reagan! It’s Momma! Talk to me, please!’ She didn’t answer.”
Brookes broke down again on the stand as she testified.
It was eerily quiet in the house. The light was not bright, but there was enough to see clearly. Brookes did not see anyone else. She says she was afraid to look for Reagan‘s 3 1/2-year-old daughter, Kynlee.
She backed out of the house again.
“I think I screamed because I didn’t know what to do, what’s going on..”
She says she fell to her knees and then realized she needed to call 911.
“I said, ‘Somebody’s murdered my baby! She’d dead! There’s blood everywhere! Somebody needs to come!”
Her husband, Marcus, and his best friend, Chris Hughes, arrived soon after. Jessica says she begged her husband not to go in. She says he didn’t need to see their daughter like that. But he went in anyway. He came out with his hand over his mouth, asking, “Why?? Why??”
He collapsed in the driveway. He was having chest pains.
Marcus later took the stand and said his first thought after he came out was, “Where’s Kynlee?” but neither he nor Jessica could bear to go back in. They were afraid of what they would find and did not want to step past Reagan on the living room floor. Hughes also later took the stand and said he initially tried to go around to the front door of the house, only to find it locked. Then he heard Marcus yelling, “‘She’s in there! She’s in there!'”
Hughes stepped around Reagan’s body and made his way down the hallway, looking in each room and calling for Kynlee. He found her in the back bedroom. She was frightened, sitting under a blanket in her bed. It took her a moment to recognize him, but when she did, he says she stood up on the bed and ran to him. He picked her up and grabbed the blanket. He put the blanket over her head so she would not see the scene in the living room and brought her out through the front door.
Reagan‘s husband arrived soon after. Marcus says it was a struggle, but he and Hughes managed to keep him from going inside.
Because they were all witnesses on a crime scene, they were all swabbed for DNA, and photos were taken of the bottoms of their tennis shoes.
Jurors also heard testimony Thursday morning from the paramedics who attended to Reagan’s baby and to Taylor Parker after she was pulled over in De Kalb less than an hour before Reagan’s body was found in New Boston.
One paramedic who rode in the ambulance with Parker testified that parker’s vitals were all normal. His biggest concern was hemorrhaging, but he saw no sign of that.
Still, LifeNet EMT Kelly Gerald also said on the stand that he feels like he was placed for a fool,” because he believed her claim that she had just gone through the trauma of giving birth in a car and may have been losing her baby. He had lost a child himself, so he empathized with her. He held her hand and tried to comfort her on the way to the hospital.
“I felt like an idiot after everything came to light.”
LifeNet EMT Paramedic Elton Crosswood says Parker told him she was driving down the road when felt her water break and the baby “just came out.”
“To us, it was obvious that the baby was not born in that car,” Crosswood said on the stand Thursday.
Childbirth is messy. There’s blood and amniotic fluid. Plus, the amniotic fluid on the baby was dried and flaky signaling the baby wasn’t just born. It had been at least several minutes. The condition of the umbilical cord also indicated the baby had not just been born only minutes before.
Crosswood also detailed the measures taken to revive the baby, who had no heartbeat and was not breathing when they arrived. In the ambulance, they gave her epinephrine, intubated her, continued CPR, and helped her breathe with a bag mask. They got her heartbeat back. Crosswood says they were excited that he might be able to save this baby.
“On the way to Idabel, we were on cloud 9,” Crosswood testified. “When we got a pulse back, we thought, ‘Wow,’ you know, ‘this is awesome.'”
Despite their best efforts, baby Braxlynn was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Parker’s defense attorney asked questions on cross-examination about the baby’s vital signs and whether the baby was ever alive. But on re-direction, Crosswood confirmed that if a baby is stillborn without a pulse, there’s no pulse to get back.
On Thursday afternoon, jurors viewed photos from the crime scene and heard from paramedics and investigators about how they put the pieces together to connect the horrific scene on Austin Street with Taylor Parker.
They also heard from the ER nurse who tried to assess Parker at the hospital, believing she had just given birth.
Details from that testimony will be updated here once testimony is over for the day.
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CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – One of the top student scientists in the country is right here in Shreveport.
Maya Trutschl is a freshman at Caddo Magnet High School. She won the nation’s top STEM competition for middle school students and was named a top 300 Broadcom Masters for a project she created in the 8th grade. Trutschl is genuinely a top young engineering scientist who is our Standout Student.
“The title was an HVCA System for a Greener Planet,” Trutschl said.
She built a prototype that could sense when your air conditioning system is not working, even when it thinks it’s working correctly.
“I used an old computer fan and used it as a base to detect when the system would be blowing air, and then I added a switch to one of the fans on one of the rotor blades on the fan. Whenever the switch would start spinning, it would tell the microcontroller, which is like this tiny little computer, that the system is blowing air,” Trutschl said.
“Then it would take measurements of the temperature and humidity using a temperature sensor. Then if those values did not get cooler in, say, three minutes worth of time and readings, then it would signal to the web server that the system is not working correctly, which would send a text message or email to your phone.”
She was inspired by the sweltering weather and poorly functioning air conditioning systems when they’re needed most. Trutschl says the subtropical climate is a problem for those without air conditioning.
Maya has a 4.0 GPA. She’s a competitive swimmer and participates in the honor society, quiz bowl, and engineering club. She has her sights set on studying Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering at Indiana University or Florida University.
“I’m interested in aeronautics and space. So I’d like to be able to do something with NASA or SpaceX. That would allow me to have a fun job to do, to come to work every day and be excited about what I get to do.”
She says she thinks science is cool because “it explains how and why we are sitting here in our chairs living in this world today, and everything starting with the Big Bang Theory. I’m just really interested in learning more about how the world goes on.”
Trutschl is from Shreveport, but her parents moved here from Slovenia, where they visit family.
Maya says two teachers were key figures who helped her along the way.
“Mrs. Bass. She was my 7th-grade science teacher. She helped kickstart my whole love of science and engineering projects. Then I really appreciate my principal, Mrs. DeBusk, because she allowed me to have a feel for everything that I’m doing and congratulate me with every single award that I won,” Trutschl said.
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(KLFY) — A number of robo-calls have gone out around Louisiana today, reporting fake ‘active shooter’ situations at a number of schools, though according to Louisiana State Police, no actual active shooter incidents have occurred.
Louisiana State Police Troop I Public Information Officer TFC Thomas Gossen said Louisiana isn’t alone in being hit by these hoax calls and texts. He noted at least 10 other states reported similar activity this week alone.
Welsh Police Chief Marcus Crochet explained that his department was warned about the calls being made, and he told News 10 he sent officers to the town’s two schools just to be safe. He reiterated, though, that no shooting situations have actually occurred. Officers, he said, will remain onsite at schools until dismissal today.
Crochet said his department put out a warning on Facebook to let parents know that any incoming calls today were fake. As the afternoon progressed, more and more parents noted in Facebook comments that other parishes had also been hit, with reports stretching from Beauregard Parish in the west to St. Mary Ouachita Parish in the north to St. Mary Parish in the south, and in Mansfield, La.
None of the agencies we spoke to today said they had any leads on who could be behind the calls.
Lafayette Parish Sherriff’s Office Spokeswoman Valerie Ponsetti said her department has been in contact the parish school district and is keeping an eye on other investigations in surrounding parishes.
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(File: Getty) (File: Getty) Read Less by: Brittany Defran Posted: Sep 22, 2022 / 01:10 PM CDT Updated: Sep 22, 2022 / 01:20 PM CDT SHARE MANSFIELD, La. (KTAL/KMSS) Mansfield Police Department responded to reports of an active shooter at Mansfield High School. After investigating they determined there was no threat and cleared the scene.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition will join Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, and other city leaders to provide an update on the progress of the civil rights museum Thursday afternoon.
The North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition and the City of Shreveport are working together to complete a construction project at the Old Galilee Baptist Church located at 854 Williamson St. The work is underway will stabilize the historic building, which will serve as the first civil rights museum in north Louisiana.
Old Galilee Baptist Church was built by formerly enslaved Blacks, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached there and held meetings to further organize the civil rights movement in 1958 and 1962. In 1984, Old Galilee Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The plans to desegregate Caddo Parish Schools were laid out at Old Galilee as well.
The project update comes on the 59-year anniversary of two significant moments in Shreveport‘s civil rights history. The beating of the late Reverend Harry Blake at Little Union Baptist Church and the student-led protests at Booker T. Washington High School the day after Rev. Blake’s attack.
A project of this scope is a costly endeavor, and the NLCRC is raising the additional funds needed to bring the civil rights museum to fruition.
Members of the NLCRC will share details on funding goals to ensure project completion.
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SHREVEPORT, La (KTAL/KMSS) — Shreveport Green hosted a big day for its members, Lowes employees and volunteers on Thursday.
Shreveport Green received $25,000 from the Lowe’s Hometown Program. The MLK Garden was one of 100 community-nominated impact projects selected to be part of the program.
This year serves as the first of a five-year $100 million dollar promise to local communities.
“We’re very excited to partner with Shreveport Green on this community garden. And every year the stores very excited to complete these projects to make our communities a better place,“ said Lowes District Manager James Benne.
Volunteers worked to build a new fence, pavilion, raised garden beds, and painted a mural.
Shreveport Green plans to build a gazebo onsite at the garden to serve as an event space. And plans are in the works to add a rain barrel collection system, benches, and a ceiling fan as well.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — The Committee of 100 for Economic Development, Inc., Louisiana’s Business Roundtable, announced the addition of Shreveport native Rick Simpson to the organization’s membership.
The C100 promotes public policy that makes Louisiana more competitive in retaining existing businesses and industry and attracting more innovative companies to Louisiana.
Simpson is the founder, CEO, and President of Professional Sitter Services, LLC, in Shreveport and has represented top brands for product integration for the motion picture divisions of Warner Brothers Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, DreamWorks, Buena Vista Pictures, Castle Rock, Skydance, and Sony.
He was critical in opening and developing the Graciela Hotel (now known as Hotel Amarano) in Burbank, California, and completed the Ritz Carlton Hospitality executive training program in Los Angeles.
“C100 is excited to have Rick. He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the membership of C100 that will greatly benefit our members and the citizens of our state,” C100 Executive Committee Member Linda Biernacki said.
Simpson is currently a member of the Shreveport Bossier Executive Association, serves on the Board of Directors for Robinson Film Center in Shreveport, and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.
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