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A storm rolled through Rehoboth in the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 13th. It left behind plenty of property damage and left hundreds without power. Most of the damage occurred in neighborhoods, and any damage the downtown area sustained was minimal.
A tree through the back of one home, a smashed car, and broken power lines made up most of the property damage. One person who was without power after the storm says it left as quick as it came, but it caused a lot of chaos in the short time it was over Rehoboth.
"I was getting ready to go to the gym and then the storm got worse and about 5:15am, it really, really turned for the worst," said Bob Dieterly.
Dieterly says as the storm got worse, the wind picked up and he and his wife could hear objects flying into their roof.
"We heard some trees going down, pine cones flying around, and then we came out took a look outside, it was tough to see cuz the rain was horizontal, but it sure looked like my neighbors car had something on it," said Dieterly.
Dieterly's neighbor, Jerry Capone, did unfortunately have something on his car.
"I looked outside and I could see a red light, and I thought boy the emergency crews are here already, but instead it was my car," said Capone.
Crews were out in Rehoboth Beach helping to clean up and get those who lost power their electricity back. They were also chopping up any fallen trees and clearing debris from yards.
As the clean up continues, people are trying to remain positive.
"It's nice out, it's Rehoboth, it's a great place to be, so we'll do okay," said Dieterly.
That clean up process could take a few days, or even weeks depending on the severity of the damage.
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16-year-old shot on Hollingsworth Rd in Macon
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –The Bibb Sheriff’s Office is investigating an Aggravated Assault in the 3300 block of Hollingsworth Road just before midnight on September 13, 2022.
Deputies responded to the 3300 block of Hollingsworth Road, regarding a person shot. Upon arrival deputies found an unresponsive 16-year-old male who had been shot. He was transported to the Atrium Health Hospital where he is listed in critical condition. No one else was injured.
This incident is still under investigation, anyone with about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Baldwin County Fire Station 4 extends hours to help with response time
If you live on the south side of Baldwin County, you'll likely see a quicker firefighter response time.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — If you live on the south side of Baldwin County, you’ll likely see a quicker firefighter response time.
That’s because the Baldwin County Fire Department has extended Fire Station 4’s hours of operation.
Firefighters are called out to a call about four times a week, and response time is critical.
Fire Chief Victor Young says this change is a plus for everyone.
“By having personnel here, they are trained medically, we can render care, take care of fires and whatever emergencies we can handle it now,” he said.
According to Chief Young, Fire Station 4 located at 252 Cooper Road, is one of the oldest volunteer run stations. It was only operational for a few hours during the night.
Adding 24/7 personnel means they can save more buildings from being a total loss.
“Fires don’t take long to burn,” he said. “If I would’ve had personnel here at this station, this truck would have got here within minutes,” Chief Young said.
Firefighter Patrick Register recalls a fire that totaled a home not too far from the station.
He says fires in that part of the county aren’t uncommon.
“We’ve had a couple big fires out here in this area, and I’m not saying anything specifically could’ve been done, but definitely couldn’t hurt to have a quicker response time and have a truck get there within minutes,” he said.
Register began with the station as a volunteer, taking courses to work part-time. In his position as a firefighter, he knows how important it is to have a fully operational station.
“Just for the community members here period, it’s awesome to have the station open,” he said. “It’s very well needed.”
With the fire station now open 24/7, there are three 24 hours shifts for three fire fighters to alternate.
The station says this addition and expansion will make a difference when it comes to an emergency.
The station is always looking to hire more firefighters and volunteers. It will hold a hiring fair in January.
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Fall-like weather continues this week
Dry air will contribute to cool overnight temperatures and low humidity, but it will still be warm this week in Middle Georgia.
We had a beautiful day with plenty of sunshine and low humidity, and this is just the start for what will be a nice week.
Tomorrow will be a cool start in the area with lows falling into the upper 50s.
Through the day we will be warming into the mid 80s thanks to clear skies and full sunshine.
We are going to be copy and pasting the forecast through the rest of the week, so everything stays pretty quiet.
Enjoy the dry air while it is in the area, because this being September in Middle Georgia, we know that it is temporary.
In fact, it looks like more humidity is going to try and push in over the weekend.
This push of humidity will also bring in our next chance of rain to our southern counties.
Although we will see a chance for some isolated showers Sunday, most of the area will be staying dry.
Highs for much of next week will be slowly warming into the upper 80s and low 90s.
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Georgia National Fair implements new clear bag policy
The Georgia National Fairgrounds is implementing a new clear bag policy at the fair next month.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Georgia National Fairgrounds is implementing a new clear bag policy.
Any bag bigger than a wallet must be clear to enter the park.
Bags can be brought from home or you can buy a Georgia National Fairgrounds bag for $10.
Fair organizers say the policy will help increase safety at the fair.
“We just wanted to institute policies that would make everyone feel safer,” Director of Marketing Maggie Lane said. “We were worried just with certain labor restrictions these days that we might not have a full staff of bag checkers, so hopefully a clear bag policy will make it easier to comply with some labor issues we may experience.”
Along with the clear bag policy, the Georgia Fairgrounds is bringing back Ident-A-Kid bracelets to help parents find lost kids.
Children under 17 must be supervised after 5 p.m.
The 2022 Georgia National Fair is being held October 6-16.
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Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion undergoing conservation process
If you're driving past the Old Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville, you'll notice construction happening.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — If you’re driving past the Old Governor’s Mansion in Milledgeville, you’ll notice construction happening.
The mansion is undergoing extensive external conservation. The process is done every 10 years to help preserve its look from 1839.
Conservation includes repainting shutters and trim and a lime wash.
This doesn’t affect anything inside the mansion, and tours will continue.
The Director of Historic Museums with Georgia College, Matthew Davis, says it’s important to keep up with the mansion for several reasons.
“Not only does it touch on the history of the state, but it has national significance,” he said. “It is a site that tells the story of enslavement, the story of politics, it tells the story of women’s history, it is a microcosm of every portion of 19th century Georgia history.”
The conservation process will last until January. The mansion is located at 120 South Clarke Street in Milledgeville.
Davis invites the community to stop by and view the conservation process and take a tour of the mansion.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from September 13, 2022
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Alcohol license revoked at Rodeo Bar and Grill following weekend shooting
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Man, woman arrested following raids of 2 Sandersville homes
A man and woman were arrested Tuesday after two homes were raided following a several months long investigation into illegal drug sales.
SANDERSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man and woman were arrested Tuesday after two homes were raided following a several months long investigation into illegal drug sales.
49-year-old Ernest Johnson Jr. of Sandersville is charged with two counts of trafficking in cocaine, and 66-year-old Sandra Annette Butts of Sandersville is charged with two counts of sale of cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Ocmulgee Drug Task Force and GC K-9 units conducted the raids.
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Mercer football prepares for its first SoCon game of the season
Bears host The Citadel on Saturday, September 17, at 6 p.m. at Five Star Stadium.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After falling to the Auburn Tigers 42-16, the Mercer Bears had a bye week to allow them time to prepare for their first Southern Conference game of the season.
Against Auburn, the Bears gave up 285 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns while picking off the Tigers twice and holding them to just over 200 passing yards.
Bear’s safety Lance Wise spoke on what the team needs to fix as they prepare to face a run-heavy The Citadel team.
“Assignment football. The plays where Tank had the big runs, we were misaligned. We weren’t doing our assignments, so we hurt ourselves more than he hurt us. He took advantage of those opportunities, but we have to go back to doing what we do best, and that’s playing fundamental football and being aligned and assigned properly every play,” said Wise.
The Bears host The Citadel, who has won three consecutive SoCon games dating back to last season. The game is slated for Saturday, September 17, at 6 p.m. at Five Star Stadium.
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NewTown Macon announces winners for Downtown Business Initiative
NewTown Macon announced the winners of its Downtown Diversity Initiative Tuesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – NewTown Macon announced the winners of its Downtown Diversity Initiative Tuesday.
Tedra Huston, Geleesa Denta, Materra Drafts, Shabrea Duffy, Dr. Anissa Jones and Deon Aiken were named winners.
Each winner received $5,000 to start or expand their business courtesy of Wells Fargo.
The program is a 10-week training program designed to attract African American business owners to downtown Macon.
The executive director of NewTown loans, Bethany Rogers, spoke about the importance of business ownership and how it can impact lives.
“Business ownership, especially for black entrepreneurs, is a much more effective tool for growing wealth than just traditional employment, and real estate ownership is a really great way to build wealth,” Rogers said.
Through this program, NewTown Macon looks to grow Black businesses in downtown Macon from 18% to 30%.
“When people get together, when people of color get together, when black women get together, amazing things are going to happen, and I think we’re going to continue to show that within our community,” Huston said.
If you’re interested in being part of the next Downtown Diversity Initiative you can visit the Community Foundation of Central Georgia’s website.
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The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: ACE vs. Northeast
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. at ACE.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –Week five of high school football has quickly approached, and the End Zone Game of the Week features a Macon battle between the ACE Gryphons and the Northeast Raiders.
The Gryphons are undefeated in year one under head coach Keith Hatcher as ACE is 4-0, making this the best start to a season in the program’s five-year history. The Gryphons are dominating on offense, averaging 54.8 points per game.
Hatcher has filled his staff with a pretty experienced group of coaches, helping him begin his era at ACE smoothly.
“These assistant coaches are so valuable in everything that we do. And earning the trust of the kids as we’ve gotten started, it’s been big. We really didn’t know what to expect when we kicked it off. We are really happy with the start that we’ve had,” said Hatcher.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. at ACE.
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LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom slowed slightly last month as a drop in gasoline and diesel fuel prices gave consumers the first glimmer of hope that Britain’s cost-of-living crisis may be beginning to ease.
The consumer price index rose 9.9% in the 12 months through August, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. That’s down from the 40-year high of 10.1% reported last month and was lower than economists’ expectations of 10%.
Britain has been hard hit by worldwide price shocks triggered by the war in Ukraine, with consumer prices rising at a faster pace than other major economies over the past year. Lower gasoline costs also slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but consumer prices that jumped 8.3% from a year earlier were still painfully high — much like in the U.K.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss last week moved to ease the pain, announcing a cap on household gas and electricity prices to head off an 80% increase in home energy costs this winter. Before that announcement, the Bank of England had estimated that inflation would peak at 13.1% later this year and trigger a recession.
“The headline rate of CPI inflation fell in August for the first time since last September and now looks set to drop sharply next year, thanks partly to the government’s energy price cap,” said Samuel Tombs, chief U.K. economist for Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Tombs estimates that the inflation rate will now peak at around 11% next month and may drop to the Bank of England’s 2% target by the end of next year. The bank postponed its upcoming meeting until next week to honor the mourning period for Queen Elizabeth II, and it’s expected to carry out another interest rate hike to tame inflation like other central banks around the world.
Gasoline prices fell 7.5%, to 175.2 pence ($2.01) a liter, in August as oil prices dropped on international markets, the statistics office said. While the decline brought welcome relief to drivers, the cost of fuel is still 32% higher than it was a year ago.
Similarly, in the U.S., the average cost of a gallon of gasoline has dropped to $3.71, down from just above $5 in mid-June.
But there was no relief on other energy costs in the U.K. Electricity prices rose 54% in the period, and natural gas prices rose almost 96%.
At the grocery store, a jump in the cost of milk, cheese and eggs drove food prices up 13.1% in the year through August, the statistics office said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, a gearhead with his own vintage Corvette, will showcase his administration’s efforts to promote electric vehicles during a visit to the Detroit auto show.
The Democratic president, who recently took a spin in his pine-green 1967 Stingray with Jay Leno for a segment on CNBC’s “Jay Leno’s Garage,” may get the chance to slide behind the wheel of a new vehicle Wednesday during his stop in Detroit. He doesn’t get many chances anymore in the driver’s seat; he’s not allowed to drive on public roads as president.
But he’s mostly going to the North American International Auto Show to talk shop, plugging the huge new climate, tax and health care law that offers tax incentives for buying electric vehicles.
While Biden has been taking credit for the recent boom in electric vehicle battery and assembly plant announcements, most were in the works long before the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law on Aug. 16. Biden’s 2021 infrastructure legislation could have something to do with it — it provides $5 billion over five years to help states create a network of EV charging stations.
Biden was set in Detroit to announce approval of the first $900 million in infrastructure money to build EV chargers across 53,000 miles of the national highway system and 35 states.
Under the newest law, electric vehicles must be built in North America to be eligible for a new federal tax credit of up to $7,500. Batteries for qualifying vehicles also must be made in North America, and there are requirements for battery minerals to be produced or recycled on the continent. The credits are aimed at creating a U.S. electric vehicle supply chain and ending dependence on other countries, mainly China.
Passage of the measure set off a scramble by automakers to speed up efforts to find North American-made batteries and battery minerals from the U.S., Canada or Mexico to make sure EVs are eligible for the credit.
In April, Ford started building electric pickup trucks at a new Michigan factory. General Motors has revamped an old factory in Detroit to make electric Hummers and pickups.
Long before legislators reached a compromise on the legislation, each company announced three EV battery factories, all joint ventures with battery makers. A GM battery plant in Warren, Ohio, has already started manufacturing. A government loan announced in July will help GM build its battery factories.
Ford said last September it would build the next generation of electric pickups at a plant in Tennessee, and GM has announced EV assembly plants in Lansing, Michigan; Spring Hill, Tennessee; and Orion Township, Michigan. In May, Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, said it would build another joint venture battery factory in Indiana, and it has announced a battery plant in Canada.
Hyundai announced battery and assembly plants in May to be built in Georgia, and Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced factories in North Carolina in July. Honda and Toyota both announced U.S. battery plants after the act was passed, but they had been planned for months.
Biden has been talking for a long time about the importance of building a domestic EV supply chain and that may have prodded some of the companies to locate factories in the U.S. But it’s also advantageous to build batteries near where EVs will be assembled because the batteries are heavy and costly to ship from overseas.
And auto companies are rolling out more affordable electric options even despite battery costs. The latest came last week from General Motors, a Chevrolet Equinox small SUV. It has a starting price around $30,000 and a range-per-charge of 250 miles, or 400 kilometers. Buyers can get range of 300 miles, or 500 kilometers, if they pay more.
The Equinox checks the North American assembly box. It will be made in Mexico. The company won’t say where the battery will be made but it is working on meeting the other criteria for getting the tax credit.
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On Tuesday evening, crowds of mourners gathered around Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin returned from Scotland, greeted by cheering crowds. The Royal Family (with the exception of Princess Anne, who travelled with her mother’s body from Scotland) gathered en masse for the momentous occasion, looking on from the Palace as the hearse drove Her Majesty through the gates of her London home for the last time.
From flowers to marmalade sandwiches, this is how the public is paying their respects to the late monarch
Among the assembled family were the King and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, publicly reunited for the first time since the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this summer. Today, Prince Harry joined his elder brother, the Prince of Wales, and his father, as Elizabeth II’s son and grandsons united in a procession escorting the Queen’s coffin to Westminster Hall.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Manuel Padilla spent part of his day off from work with his wife and daughter handing out water, blankets and granola bars to the migrants staying in tents and on sidewalks along Overland Street.
“We saw the Facebook posts and we felt bad. We decided to go to Sam’s and grab some stuff. We’re trying to give back as much as we can,” the El Paso car salesman said on Tuesday. Around him, women looked after restless children, men sent text messages on their mobile phones and volunteers stopped in vehicles to drop off bottled water, sodas and clothes.
The scene played out Tuesday in a city that has seen the U.S. Border Patrol release more than 1,000 paroled migrants in its Downtown since last Wednesday. A perfect storm of increased migration, a Border Patrol processing center three times above its normal capacity, nonprofit shelters starving for beds and volunteers, and a sudden surge of arrivals from Venezuela ineligible for expulsion have led to the releases.
City officials are trying to relieve the pressure by busing people out of town as soon as possible. On Monday, they awarded a charter bus company a $2 million contract, and Office of Emergency Management personnel could be seen on Overland Street on Tuesday recruiting migrants for the next bus to New York City.
But at least one border expert believes more will be needed, as the El Paso, Texas-Juarez, Mexico, corridor is likely to see even more migration in months to come.
“It’s absolutely going to continue. It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” said Victor M. Manjarrez Jr., director of the Center for Law and Human Behavior at the University of Texas at El Paso. “The flow continues and when there is no consequence, when there is success, you call back home and people start asking, how do we replicate that?”
The former U.S. Border Patrol sector chief in El Paso and Tucson, Arizona, said the mass arrival of the Venezuelans to a Texas city where few of them have friends or relatives does not happen by chance. “Once we had a big surge of Polish nationals in Naco, Arizona. Why Naco? Well, that’s what they (smugglers) were advertising on TV in Warsaw: ‘If you want to go to the United States, the gateway right now is Naco, Arizona.’”
Regardless of who is pointing the Venezuelans to El Paso and why they chose to come now, the fact is that political and economic upheaval in that South American country is justifiably driving many out of their homeland, another UTEP educator says.
The Venezuelan conundrum
More than 1.5 inches of rain fell in El Paso late Monday. Water runoff forced many of the single adults and families with children along Overland Street to crowd into small tents or move to the side of the street with fewer water puddles.
Luis Javier, a Venezuelan migrant, said he and his two small boys were able to weather the storm. “We went through the same thing in Panama. It rained for two days but we did not have a tent,” he said, adding that he’s been living on the streets of El Paso since being released from immigration custody on Monday. “They gave us the paper and now we’re going to give the best of ourselves in this country.”
Luis Javier talked about leaving his country because of low wages and political favoritism. He believes he had no choice but to leave, but if he had to do it over again, he would not have brought his children. “That jungle (in Panama) is terrible. You suffer hunger, you see people dying around you, you hear of women who were raped. Even a young man 25 years old died of a heart attack. You must be mentally fit as well as physically fit to make it out,” he said.
Liliavi, a child psychologist, said she endured a similar journey – plus discrimination and financial abuse in Mexico – to escape the low wages. Already, she had migrated from Venezuela to Brazil when she and other members of her family decided to go all in on the United States.
“They have different fees for different nationalities. If you are from Haiti or Cuba, you pay a transportation fee, if you are from Venezuela, it’s a different fee,” she said. “The people who transport you take advantage of the needs of the migrant in every country.”
Abel Molina, a taxi driver from Venezuela, said he came to the United States because gasoline shortages and the cost of parts for his vehicle made it impossible for him to make a living. In addition, basic food items and medication are so expensive that Venezuelans must choose between buying milk and poultry, or clothes and new shoes.
“My wages were $28 a month. If I needed a new tire, that’s $100. Where was I going to get that?” he said. “You had very long lines at gas stations, and when it was your turn, they told you they had run out of gas. We’re here looking for a better future, and I hope to be reunited with my daughter in Kansas.”
UTEP Liberal Arts Dean Anadeli Bencomo, a native of Venezuela, said it’s hard to believe how things have taken a turn for the worse in her homeland in recent years.
She said many Latin American nations now require visas from Venezuelans, which not all are able to get and which has reduced the number of flights out of the capital of Caracas. That is one of the factors forcing Venezuelans to travel on foot or procure alternate transportation.
“There are many crises going on in Venezuela. There is no single solution for that situation. Classes are online because the government can’t pay for school (expenses), people are lacking opportunities and young professionals are leaving,” she said. “I don’t know if they will return because there is no confidence in the political and economic system. There is no single magical solution to stop the migration.”
The migrants interviewed on Tuesday said they were grateful to the Biden administration for letting them into the country. They also expressed fears of being denied asylum and sent back to their home countries.
“We are afraid of being deported. If we go back to our country, they will put us in jail because they are always trying to find out who wants to leave the country. We will become political prisoners,” said migrant Karina Yaosca.
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NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first trip abroad since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group.
Xi’s trip underlines the importance Beijing places on ties with Russia and Central Asia as the ruling Communist Party promotes its strategic ambitions amid tension with Washington, Japan and India.
Wearing a blue suit, Xi was met on the airport tarmac by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and an honor guard, all of whom wore masks.
Tokayev’s government said the two leaders would discuss energy markets and global economic turmoil. Kazakhstan, a sparsely populated country of 19.4 million people and sprawling grasslands, is a major oil and gas producer. China is a leading customer.
On Thursday, Xi is due to fly to Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan for a summit of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization, led by China and Russia.
Beijing and Moscow see the SCO as a counterweight to U.S. alliances in East Asia.
Other SCO governments include India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Observers include Iran and Afghanistan.
The Chinese leader is promoting a “Global Security Initiative” announced in April following the formation of the Quad by Washington, Japan, Australia and India in response to Beijing’s more assertive foreign policy. Xi has given few details, but U.S. officials complain it echoes Russian arguments in support of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine.
Xi and Putin plan to hold a one-on-one meeting and discuss Ukraine, according to the Russian president’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov.
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South Shore man charged for pickpocketing on CTA
CHICAGO - A South Shore man was charged for pickpocketing people on the CTA over the past two weeks.
Police say Guy Davis, 57, was responsible for several pickpocket thefts that happened from Aug. 29-Sept 3.
The incidents happened at the below locations:
- On Aug. 29 in the 1200 block of West Loyola Avenue; 20-year-old female victim
- On Aug. 31 in the 500 block of North State Street; 25-year-old female victim
- On Sept. 3 in the first block of West Lake Street; 53-year-old female victim
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The offender is also charged with using credit cards belonging to two of the above victims. Davis was arrested on Sept. 12 by the Transit Security Unit in the 100 block of North Wells Street.
No additional information is available at this time.
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A head on crash involving a teen driver going the wrong way in Colbert, north of Spokane on Sunday night, September, 11th, sent three people to the hospital.
The collision on US highway 2 happened around 8 p.m.
According to the Washington State Patrol a 15 year old driver was going the wrong way when they hit another car head on.
Katalina Freyer and her one month old daughter were in the car that was hit. They were taken to the hospital and later released with only minor injuries.
"The cops told me that every collision they've seen like that someone was dead," said Freyer.
The 15 year old driver from Idaho and a 13 year old passenger were also expected to be fine after sustaining minor injuries.
15 year-olds are allowed to get a driver's license in Idaho, but they are not permitted to drive at night without an adult in the car.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Members of one union rejected a tentative deal with the largest U.S. freight railroads Wednesday while three other unions remained at the bargaining table just days ahead of a strike deadline, threatening to intensify snarls in the nation’s supply chain that have contributed to rising prices.
About 4,900 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 19 voted to reject the tentative agreement negotiated by IAM leadership with the railroads, the union said Wednesday. But the IAM agreed to delay any strike by its members until Sept. 29 to allow more time for negotiations and to allow other unions to vote.
Railroads are trying to reach an agreement with all their other unions to avert a strike before Friday’s deadline. The unions aren’t allowed to strike before Friday under the federal law that governs railroad contract talks.
Government officials and a variety of businesses are bracing for the possibility of a nationwide rail strike that would paralyze shipments of everything from crude and clothing to cars, a potential calamity for businesses that have struggled for more than two years due to COVID-19 related supply chain breakdowns.
There are 12 unions — one with two separate divisions — that must agree to the tentative deals. So far, nine had agreed to tentative deals and three others are still at the bargaining table. IAM members were the first to reject their deal while other votes are expected Wednesday.
The tentative deals are based on the recommendations of a Presidential Emergency Board Joe Biden appointed this summer that called for 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses in a five-year deal that’s retroactive to 2020. The deal also includes one additional paid leave day a year and higher health insurance costs.
The key unions that represent the conductors and engineers who drive trains are holding out in the hope that railroads will agree to go beyond those recommendations and address some of their concerns about unpredictable schedules and strict attendance policies that they say make it difficult to take any time off.
Contract talks continued Wednesday with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh participating to put pressure on both sides to reach a deal before Friday’s deadline.
“All parties need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “A shutdown of our freight system is an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people, and all parties must work to avoid just that.”
If the two sides can’t agree, Congress could step in to block a strike and impose terms on the railroads and unions, but it wasn’t clear Wednesday how quickly they could or would act because Democrats and Republicans may not be able to readily agree on a solution. A number of business groups have written letters to lawmakers over the past week urging them to be prepared to step in because of their concerns that a rail strike would be what the Business Roundtable called an “economic catastrophe.”
The many businesses that rely on railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products say a rail strike would cause significant problems particularly for oil refineries, chemical businesses, auto makers, retailers and agricultural groups. The Association of American Railroads trade group estimated that a strike would cost the economy more than $2 billion a day.
Businesses would likely try to turn to trucks and other modes of shipping if the railroads do shut down, but there isn’t enough trucking capacity to take up all the slack. The railroad trade group estimated that 467,000 additional trucks a day would be required to deliver everything railroads handle now.
A freight rail strike would also disrupt passenger traffic because Amtrak and many commuter railroads operate on tracks owned by the freight railroads. Amtrak has already cancelled a number of its long-distance trains this week.
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BENSENVILLE, Ill. — “ANKUR” Muktanand Foods Inc. issued a recall for its 14-ounce packages of “Golden Raisins” because they could contain undeclared sulfites.
People with severe sensitivity to sulfites could risk serious of life-threatening reactions by consuming this product.
The company says it sold this product in retail stores nationwide.
The golden raisins come in 14-ounce, clear plastic packages with UPC Code 8904 1704 10327.
This recall affects all "ANKUR Golden Raisin" 14-ounce packages, regardless of the presence or absence of a batch number.
No illnesses have been reported in connection with this problem, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
ANKUR issued the recall right away after finding that the product was distributed in packaging that did not reveal the presence of sulfite.
If you bought this product, ANKUR says you may return it for a full refund.
If you have any further questions, call Raxa Desai at 630-595-1118, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. CST.
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Perry man accused of vehicular homicide in Tennessee
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (41NBC/WMGT) – A Perry man is behind bars in Tennessee and charged with vehicular homicide after crashing his car on Labor day.
24 year old Jamir Johnson, of Perry, Georgia, is charged with vehicular homicide and three-counts of vehicular assault.
According to a report by WSMV Nashville, on September 5th Johnson was driving a red Dodge Charger when he ran off the road and hit a tree. Speed may have been a contributing factor to the crash. An open bottle of alcohol was found in the car.
22 year old Marcus Webb, a front-seat passenger died on the scene. 20 year old Brandon Pace, Jr. remains in critical condition at Vanderbilt Medical Center. 20 year old Jeremiah Matthews and 22 year old Lamar Childress are in stable condition at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital. Johnson is being held on $180,000 bond at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center.
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Sunny days to hang around for Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – High pressure will keep sunny skies around Middle Georgia for the next several days.
Today
It was the coolest morning of the week for Middle Georgians. Temperatures around the region were mainly in the upper 50s to kick the morning off, however some spots got as low as 54 degrees while some were as warm as 63. We will all see temperatures rise into the mid and upper 80s this afternoon, however dew points will remain in the mid to upper 50s, making for a pleasant afternoon. Cloud cover will be hard to come by with only a couple of cumulus clouds likely to develop in the afternoon. Sunblock is suggested for anyone spending abundant time outdoors. Ambient winds will predominantly blow out of the northwest at about 5-10 mph.
Any clouds that filled in during the afternoon will quickly fade once the sun sets. The winds will shift more towards the east as they come in at about 5 mph from the east-northeast. Low temperatures will be a few degrees warmer than this morning as we head out the door to the lower 60s across Middle Georgia.
Tomorrow
Our Thursday will also be plenty sunny as highs climb into the mid and upper 80s again. Winds will mainly blow from the east-northeast at about 10-15 mph. Gusts could reach speeds upwards of 20 mph, adding a nice breeze.
Conditions will remain clear overnight as temperatures drop into the lower 60s once again. Ambient winds will continue to feed in from the east-northeast at about 5-10 mph.
Tropics
Tropical Depression Seven has just formed in the Atlantic Basin about 800 miles to the east of the Lesser Antilles. It is moving due east at about 14 mph and currently has sustained winds of 35 mph. An upgrade to Tropical Storm Fiona is likely in the near future, and given its current trajectory it needs to be watched closely in the coming days. Only one model has it staying out to sea while four models have it barreling straight towards Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Stocks on Wall Street shook off an afternoon slide and finished modestly higher Wednesday, clawing back some of their losses a day after the market’s worst skid in two years.
The wobbly trading came as investors weighed another snapshot of inflation. Markets have been on edge about the possibility of a recession after a string of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve this year as the central bank fights inflation.
The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after wavering between small gains and losses much of the afternoon. The benchmark index was coming off its biggest drop since June 2020, which ended a four-day winning streak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.1% higher, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.7%. Smaller company stocks also rose, pushing the Russell 2000 to a 0.4% gain.
Bond yields remained relatively stable after leaping higher on Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 3.79% from 3.75% late Tuesday, when it soared on expectations for more aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, held steady at 3.41%.
A report on inflation at the wholesale level showed prices are still rising rapidly, with pressures building underneath the surface, even if overall inflation slowed. It echoed a report on inflation at the consumer level Tuesday, which raised expectations for interest-rate hikes and triggered a rout for markets.
Still, the overall decline in inflation at the wholesale level helped assuage fears in the market that inflation at all levels is intensifying, said Quincy Krosby, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial.
“The market would have probably had another round of selling had the headline number been higher,” Krosby said. “The fact that it dipped a bit was helpful for today’s market.”
Traders now see a one-in-four chance the Fed may hike its benchmark rate by a full percentage point next week, quadruple the usual move, according to CME Group. A day earlier, it was closer to a one-in-three chance. The site puts the probability of a three-quarter percentage point increase now at 76%, up from 69% on Tuesday.
The central bank has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point.
The Fed is taking the aggressive action on interest rates to try and cool the hottest inflation in four decades. Tuesday’s report on high prices jolted the market with signs that inflation is entering a more stubborn phase that could require an already resolute Fed to become more aggressive.
Wall Street is especially worried that the rate hikes could go too far in slowing the economy and send it into a recession. The Fed is trying to avoid that outcome, but the latest inflation reports reveal that is becoming a more difficult task.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 13.32 points to 3,946.01, while the Dow added 30.12 points to 31,135.09. The Nasdaq gained 86.10 points to 11,719.68, and the Russell 2000 picked up 6.89 points to close at 1,838.46.
Energy stocks had some of the biggest gains as U.S. crude oil prices rose 1.3%. Exxon Mobil rose 2.5%.
“Today you have some investors coming off the sidelines, coming back into the market because there’s this feeling that the sell-off was a big one, there was a recalibration there, there was a little bit of panic selling there,” said Sylvia Jablonski, chief investment officer at Defiance ETFs.
The broader U.S. economy has been slowing, but consumers have remained resilient and the job market remains strong. Wall Street will get another update on inflation’s latest impact on spending when the government releases its retail sales report for August on Thursday.
The market is also monitoring U.S.-China tensions and war in Ukraine, while business and government officials are bracing for the possibility of a nationwide rail strike at the end of this week that could paralyze an already discombobulated supply chain.
The railroads have already started to curtail shipments of hazardous materials and have announced plans to stop hauling refrigerated products ahead of Friday’s strike deadline. Businesses that rely on Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Kansas City Southern and other railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products are planning for the worst.
Union Pacific fell 3.7% and Norfolk Southern fell 2.2%.
Biden administration officials are scrambling to develop a plan to keep goods moving if the railroads shut down. The White House is also pressuring the two sides to settle their differences, and a growing number of business groups are lobbying Congress to be prepared to intervene and block a strike if they can’t reach an agreement.
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Book review: Scotland’s Wings, by Robert Jeffrey
This loop-the-loop through Scottish aviation history contains some entertaining musings and fascinating facts, writes Alastair Dalton
Robert Jeffrey describes his book as “just one enthusiast’s idiosyncratic look at the story of some of the experimenters, pilots, planes and airfields of former times in Scotland” – and his is indeed a quirky style. His flypast through Scotland’s rich aviation history contains some entertaining musings as well a few fascinating first-hand anecdotes and surprising facts.
However, even with the disclaimer that the book makes no claim to be comprehensive, the narrative has a habit of making disconcerting jumps between subjects – the literary equivalent of mid-air turbulence? – with much detail about some and disappointingly brief mentions of others.
Over 200 pages, Jeffrey takes us from the country’s earliest flights to its potential as a future space rocket base, taking in the two world wars and the development of homegrown aircraft and internal air routes.
Much of this has been well-chronicled elsewhere, but the author highlights the breadth of Scottish innovation, from a Fifer who took to the skies in a hot air balloon just a year after the Montgolfier brothers in 1784 to the 1930s Weir in Glasgow – the one featured in Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, according to Jeffrey – to the Denny hovercraft built in Dumbarton in the 1960s.
In one eyebrow-raising passage, Jeffrey recalls an elderly public relations chief for German airline Lufthansa discussing with journalists how to eat oysters as they dined at the Rogano restaurant in Glasgow during the promotion of its new Frankfurt route in the 1960s: “The Fuhrer chewed his.”
Also on a Nazi theme, in 1936 the first international flight to Renfrew Airport – Glasgow’s predecessor, whose runway is now part of the M8 – was a Junkers carrying the German football team, complete with a swastika on the fuselage.
I was also struck by some extraordinary early aviation antics, such as a crew member having to parachute to the ground when the first airship flight between Britain and the US arrived from East Lothian in 1919 because the landing party in Long Island were inexperienced in handling them.
Other nuggets include Barra’s famed beach runway not being unique, with one on Harris in regular use in the late 1960s.
The book also notes The Scotsman’s backing for Highlands air pioneer Ted Fresson who established the first flights to Orkney in 1933, and our reporting of the rather less successful attempts to send mail by rocket in the Western Isles the following year.
There are plenty of familiar and unfamiliar facts to enjoy along Jeffrey’s trajectory, once you adjust to his style, along with some odd contentions, such as casting doubt that Elvis Presley landed at Prestwick Airport in 1960.
Scotland’s Wings – Triumph and Tragedy in the Skies, by Robert Jeffrey, Black & White Publishing, £14.99.
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Alheizmer’s Awareness Walk happening in Wilkinson County this weekend
The city of Toomsboro is holding an Alzheimer's Awareness Walk this weekend to raise money for Alzheimer's research.
TOOMSBORO, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The city of Toomsboro is holding an Alzheimer’s Awareness Walk this weekend to raise money for Alzheimer’s research.
The walk, set for Saturday, will begin at Toomsboro City Park at 8 a.m.
Visitors will also be able to talk to healthcare professionals, and the Macon Museum of Arts and Science will put on an animal education show.
Toomsboro Mayor Joyce Denson spoke about what it means to those with Alzheimer’s to have support from others.
“It’s one thing for your family, but even when you have people not close to you to come out, I think it makes a difference in everybody, no matter what tragedy or what type of illness you may be going through,” she said.
You can sign up for the walk on-site.
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Dry weather continues this week
Sunshine and low humidity will keep it feeling nice across Middle Georgia for the rest of the week.
It was another gorgeous day across Middle Georgia, from the start in the 50s to the mid 80s and sunshine this afternoon.
Overnight it won’t be quite as chilly across the area, but lows will still fall into the low 60s.
Thursday brings another sunny day to the southeast with highs in the mid 80s and low humidity.
The forecast won’t change much between now and Friday so enjoy the low humidity and below normal temperatures.
Meanwhile, in the tropics, we now have Tropical Depression Seven in the Atlantic (as of writing this at 9pm).
The track for seven will bring it over Puerto Rico and Hispaniola this weekend.
Typically tracks like this will weaken the system so it will be interesting to see what happens next week.
Back at home we will continue our trend of mostly dry weather.
With the dry weather we will reintroduce 90s back to the forecast for next week with some increased humidity as well.
Forecasts are trending dry and hot for much of next week, so enjoy the break for the rest of this week.
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Forsyth fire chief reflects on time in role ahead of retirement
The Forsyth Fire Department is saying goodbye to a long time employee and leader.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Forsyth Fire Department is saying goodbye to a long time employee and leader.
Fire Chief David Herndon is retiring September 30. We sat down to speak with him about his accomplishments in the position.
Fire Chief Herndon says it was time to head to retirement and travel.
“It’s been an extremely fun position,” he said. “I’ve looked forward to getting up and coming to work every day.”
A dream of working with the Forsyth Fire Department is coming to an end, and Fire Chief Herndon will hang up his helmet after 11 years in the position.
“My one core value was to make a difference one life at a time,” he said. “And that’s something that the crews bought into, and that’s what we did.”
Fire Chief Herndon gave 40 years of his life as a part-time firefighter with the department and spent 11 of those as chief.
He says the department has maintained a great relationship with the city. In his 11 years, they’ve worked to add personnel, buy new equipment and add a new fire truck.
He recalls some fires that happened in downtown Forsyth.
“When we had our block fires, we had a lot of people doing a lot of work, but thankfully downtown is still there,” he said.
As he prepares to leave the position, he has one message to his men and women.
“The true purpose is to make a difference and work towards that,” he said. “Don’t ever get complacent. If you get complacent in your training, it gets dangerous.”
Herndon says the community can rest assured the department will continue to maintain a safe level of care.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from September 14, 2022
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Peyton Anderson Cancer Center now offering oncology services
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Peyton Anderson Cancer Center now offering oncology services
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Macon-Bibb EMA hosting emergency preparedness fair Saturday
The Macon-Bibb Emergency Management Agency is hosting an emergency preparedness fair this weekend.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Macon-Bibb Emergency Management Agency is hosting an emergency preparedness fair this weekend.
The fair will offer personal safety and health items, Covid testing, first aid demonstrations and pet micro-chipping.
It will also offer a bit of fun with fire truck tours and firefighter gear races.
Macon-Bibb EMA Administrative Officer Moranda Guy says being prepared for an emergency is essential.
“When it’s time, there may be things that may not be available for them at the time when a disaster strikes, so for them to have these things to at least last for about three days such as your emergency kit, food, water and blankets, those utensils, things and stuff that can help them until they can receive help from our public safety personnel,” she said.
The event, happening at the Frank Johnson Recreation Center on Mercer University Drive, starts at 11 a.m. Saturday and goes until 3 p.m.
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Man hospitalized after drive-by shooting on Montpelier Avenue
A 33-year-old man is in stable condition at the hospital after being shot Wednesday night on Montpelier Avenue.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A 33-year-old man is in stable condition at the hospital after being shot Wednesday night on Montpelier Avenue.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says it happened just before 9 o’clock at M&M Groceries, located at 2760 Montpelier Avenue.
Witnesses told investigators people were standing outside the store when a dark-colored vehicle drove by and someone inside the vehicle fired several shots.
A personal vehicle took the victim to Atrium Health Navicent.
No one else was injured.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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Monroe County woman dies in house fire
UPDATE: The Monroe County Sheriff's Office identified the victim of Wednesday's fire as 63-year-old Joanne Turner of Forsyth.
UPDATE: The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim of Wednesday’s fire as 63-year-old Joanne Turner of Forsyth.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT ) — One person is dead following a deadly fire in Monroe County Wednesday.
According to the Monroe County Fire Department, the call came in just before 11 a.m. from a home at 134 Sutton Road.
County and City of Forsyth firefighters worked to put out the flames and rescue the victim inside.
According to County Fire Chief Matt Jackson, an unidentified female was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Fire Chief Jackson says 40% of the home was impacted by the fire.
“With reports from families who were on scene, where the victim was last seen, we made our way to that location as quickly as we could,” he said. “There was some obstacles in the house, and of course visibility is always zero, using thermal imagery to try to locate that victim.”
According to Chief Jackson, the fire begin on the porch but the cause is still under investigation.
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Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park hosting 30th annual Indigenous Celebration this weekend
The Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is hosting its 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration this weekend.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park is hosting its 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration this weekend.
This will be the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic the park has hosted the event in-person.
The celebration will feature traditional cultural crafts, storytelling and educational programs to celebrate southeastern Native American culture.
The park’s superintendent, Carla Beasley, says the celebration will help educate visitors about Native American culture as well as help people rediscover the history of the mounds themselves.
“It is an opportunity for visitors to come to the park and hear directly from the ancestors of the people who made some of these mounds and other structures in the park,” Beasley said.
An artisan will also be on-site creating a traditional Native American canoe that will be on display at the visitor’s center.
The celebration starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets are available on-site or in advance here. The cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children ages 6-12 and military with ID. Children 6 and under are free. All parking will be off site at the former Macon-Bibb Health Department, located at 171 Emery Highway. A free shuttle will run continuously between the parking area and the event.
For more information about the celebration, visit the park’s Facebook page.
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Peyton Anderson Cancer Center now offering oncology services
The Atrium Health Navicent Peyton Anderson Cancer Center is now offering a new service to its patients.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) – The Atrium Health Navicent Peyton Anderson Cancer Center is now offering a new service to its patients.
The center held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday to announce it will now offer medical oncology services.
Medical Director Dr. Paul Dale says the service will help provide better care for patients.
“This is just one more aspect that allows us to give better cancer care,” Dr. Dale said. “It allows you to walk through the front door and see our surgical oncologist, our radiation oncologist and now our medical oncologist.”
Medical oncology doctors will be able to manage drug, chemotherapy and surgical treatment plans for patients.
“It’s your one-stop shop,” Dr. Dale said. “You walk in and you’ll see everything in one area, which is quite unique and a very nice offering for the patients with cancer here in the Middle Georgia area.”
The Cancer Center also welcomes medical oncologist Dr. Katie McQueen Amaker. She’s looking forward to helping patients in Middle Georgia.
“I’m excited to bring new opportunities including the availability of possibly some cancer research clinical trials from the Living Cancer Institute helping make that available to our patients here in Macon,” she said.
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Bibb deputies investigating armed robbery at north Macon store
Witnesses told deputies two males, dressed in dark clothing with their faces hidden, entered the store with guns and demanded money from the clerk. They ran after receiving cash, and no one was injured.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a commercial armed robbery that happened Wednesday night.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says it happened just before 10 o’clock at Dollar Tree, located at 175 Tom Hill Sr. Boulevard.
Witnesses told deputies two males, dressed in dark clothing with their faces hidden, entered the store with guns and demanded money from the clerk. They ran after receiving cash, and no one was injured.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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BS Report: September 14th – They Blew It!
Falcons fans aren't expecting much from this rebuilt squad, but a heartbreaking turnaround loss may be too much to take.
Falcons fans aren’t expecting much from this rebuilt squad, but a heartbreaking turnaround loss may be too much to take. Bill Shanks explains why the blown 16 point lead against the rival Saints may be the fault of the coaching.
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The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: ACE vs. Northeast, Pt. 2
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. at ACE.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The End Zone Game of the Week features a first-ever battle between the ACE Gryphons and the Northeast Raiders.
The Raiders are coming off their best season in program history, going 9-4 and falling in the 2A state quarterfinals. But this season, the Raiders haven’t had the best of luck as they have started the season 1-2, with a 2-point loss against the Mary Persons Bulldogs that ended in the third quarter, followed by a one-point loss to Fitzgerald.
The Raiders bounced back last week, defeating Carver, the second-ranked team in the 3A. So to continue their winning ways, head coach Jeremy Wiggins has a few goals in mind.
“Finish the game. Win all three phases of the game: special teams, offense and defense. Come out and play hard, play fast, play physical. Be mentally sharp. No mental mistakes. No stupid penalties, which we’ve been doing a good job of penalties and cutting down on that. So we just want to make sure we’re in the right place so we can give ourselves a chance to win the game,” said Wiggins.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. at ACE.
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Resumen de noticias de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania del 14 de septiembre Juan Pablo Elverdin Sep 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 Updated 17 min ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Este seguimiento terminó. Puedes ver las últimas noticias de la guerra aquí.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you ON AIR Trending Now UPDATE: Active shooting investigation shuts down portion of Gunbarrel Rd near Erlanger East DEFYING ODDS: Soddy Daisy Woman dies twice, and lives to tell the tale UPDATE: Moon River organizers cancel Sunday show due to flooding, now issuing refunds Man killed in dog attack Sunday morning WHAT THE TECH? A look at Apple's iOS 16 & if you should install it Catoosa Man pleads guilty to molesting female relative NTSB releases preliminary report of deadly helicopter crash in Marion County Residents concerned after shooting on Gunbarrel Collegedale PD K-9 officer catches escaped felon from Georgia during first day on the job Chattanooga City Council candidate cited in traffic stop, accuses officers of racial profiling Must See Video Alison Pryor's Thursday weather Chattanooga's Chief of Police addresses rise in violent crime Chattanooga City Council candidate cited in traffic stop, accuses officers of racial profiling
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Sudan Archives' music celebrates digging. With infectious curiosity, her oddball collages of hip-hop, electronic and globally sourced folk bridge worlds and tramp through them, encouraging you to forge your own routes as well. Across two EPs and an album, the self-taught violinist, producer and songwriter has honed a distinct blend of layered vocals and instrumentation that both pleases the ear and challenges it to parse all the fusion. Her vibrant second album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, details her passages between her hometown of Cincinnati, her adopted city of Los Angeles and the many other locales, people and traditions that inform her idiosyncratic style. The record feels like a world tour of her brain, particular yet capacious — and always active.
Cosmopolitan music often leans heavily into the rush and the signifiers of jetsetting — accents, passports, landmarks, cuisines, runways — but Natural Brown Prom Queen's preoccupation is terroir, the distinct conditions that make a place unique. Sudan Archives doesn't just experience or consume global sounds; she interacts with them, her fingers sifting through the soil as she feels out every little element. "Suck out the honey," she implores on the steamy R&B track "Milk Me," capturing the intimacy and pleasure of her sourcing. Each encounter seems to clarify her own origins and path forward.
The album builds on the conviction of her debut, Athena, which bolstered her signature sound with heftier singing and breezy rapping. The cover of that globetrotting record, which pictured Sudan Archives and her violin as a Greek statue, captures the whimsy, audacity and confidence of her musical vision. Born Brittney Parks and nicknamed Sudan as a child, the artist is a Black Midwesterner with no direct ties to Sudan, South Sudan or Greece. She picked up the violin when a chance performance by Canadian fiddlers at her Ohio elementary school sparked an obsession. She learned to play by ear in various ensembles — something she references on the Natural Brown Prom Queen interlude "Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)" — and later became interested in the actual sounds of Sudan, which coincidentally has a culture of ceremonial and experimental violin music. She adopted her stage name after this tacit connection implored her to peruse the broader archive of African folk music. More links followed — many of them hyperlinks on YouTube — as she explored and embraced the string traditions of Estonia, Ghana and Russia. All this cultural gallivanting rules out any notion of "authenticity," a fraught term that, in the name of properly attributing sounds and styles to their sources, often conflates origination with originality and inspiration with extraction.
Natural Brown Prom Queen has little interest in proving Parks' legitimacy and is more driven by her intense curiosity. The acts of borrowing and interpolating are openly embedded in the music. On the closer, "513," she warps the hook of LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" into a homegoing reprise. Opener "Home Maker" is an ode to personal space that begins with a quicksilver suite that flickers between snatches of synth, trumpet, keys, harp and a breakbeat before settling into a pulsing R&B arrangement. "I'm a homemaker," Sudan Archives sings on the hook, celebrating her domicile and the many elements that comprise it. Her home is a waypoint rather than an enclosure, the space and its builder changing as people and ideas drift through.
That enthusiasm for both influence and confluence flavors the swaggering and saucy album, which finds the singer mulling relationships, her body and her desires over compositions that shimmer with textures and overtones. The songs, which often have multiple producers, practically glow with life, constantly changing direction and shape. "Ciara" wryly uses sun-soaked melodies to toast to a roughneck relative ("I got a cousin in Chicago / Who will smack you in your face") then empties into a sludgy bridge that shifts yet again into a gale of chill funk. The dewy vocals and production on slow jam "ChevyS10" liquefy, sublimate and freeze like water changing states. Noise rap and hyperpop often use volatility to disorient and dissociate, but as Sudan jaunts from Miami bass on "Freakalizer" to Irish jigs on "TDLY (Homegrown Land)" she sounds more grounded and clear-headed.
"Selfish Soul" melds choral harmonies, violin riffs and pounding drums into a folksy rap track, the busyness of the beat matching Sudan's fraught tales of styling her hair. The theme recalls other considerations of Black hair by women in soul music — India.Arie's "I Am Not My Hair" and Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair" — but Sudan's take on the subject emphasizes working for self-acceptance rather than deflecting outside gazes, subtly underscoring that individual autonomy is at the root of such songs even as they mention experiences relatable to any Black woman. "Copycat" approaches the subject differently, Sudan playfully addressing biters. Calling out plagiarists is standard rap stuff, but the song doubles as a metacommentary on the unappreciated omni-influence of Black women, Sudan asking how she can be both despised and Xeroxed. It's a worthwhile question. In a world with so much erasure of Black women's contributions, what can authenticity even look like for them?
Control comes up often on Natural Brown Prom Queen. On the title track, she alludes to her time in N2, a defunct teen-pop duo with her twin sister. She's said that rebelling against the direction of the group, which was put together by her late stepdad, resulted in her getting kicked out the house. Because of this history, the polyvalent music she makes as Sudan Archives is often read as antipop. But here she makes it clear that she rejected her lack of authority rather than the music she made. "I just want to have my t*****s out / T*****s out / T*****s out," she chants in the outro, again linking creative and bodily autonomy. Her music is less a rejection of pop and more an embrace of her uninhibited self. (Plus, her pop instincts are on full display in the composition of these and past songs. She is very capable of writing earworms and being an ethnomusicological nerd at the same damn time.)
When she's not explicitly talking about authority, she's exuding it in her cocksure rapping and singing, which anchors all the album's motion. She gushes with ideas and approaches to these bustling arrangements, hopscotching across drum patterns ("Yellow Brick Road"), bouncing off of basslines ("Copycat") and gliding over melodies ("Homesick"). Her violin appears on over half the songs, but it's less of a focal instrument, underscoring the growing sense that she is the lead. Her widening web of influences and collaborators (most notably multi-instrumentalist Ben Dickey, who is credited on nearly every song) affirms that she is the conductor through which all these currents flow.
It's fitting, then, that her journeys lead her back to Cincinnati on "#513." "Hollywood will make you hollow / I'm too rooted in my ways," she sings defiantly, setting the song up as a prodigal return. But the tinny song is not an ode to the rustbelt city or a homecoming in the typical sense of the word. Sudan Archives doesn't head home to settle old scores, reminisce on better days or restore herself. She goes simply because, in that moment, that's where she wants to be. That caprice captures the itinerant spirit of her music and the album's arch sense of home. In the world of Sudan Archives, home is anywhere, anyone and any sound that pushes you forward.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics is shifting away from fossil fuels and aiming to entirely power its global operations with clean electricity by 2050, a challenging goal that experts say could be hampered by South Korea’s modest climate change commitments.
South Korea-based Samsung is a top producer of computer memory chips and smartphones and the second biggest energy consumer behind Walmart among hundreds of global companies that have joined the “RE100” campaign to get 100% of electricity from renewable sources like wind or solar power.
In announcing its target Thursday the company said it aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions across its mobile device, television and consumer electronics divisions by 2030, and across all global operations including semiconductors by 2050.
It plans to invest 7 trillion won ($5 billion) through 2030 on projects aimed at reducing emissions from process gases, controlling and recycling electronic waste, conserving water and minimizing pollutants. It plans to develop new technologies to reduce power consumption in consumer electronics devices and data centers, which would require more efficient memory chips. It also will set long-term goals to reduce emissions in supply chains and logistics.
“Samsung is responding to the threats of climate change with a comprehensive plan that includes reducing emissions, new sustainability practices and the development of innovative technologies and products that are better for our planet,” Jong-Hee Han, the company’s CEO, said in an emailed statement.
Samsung’s plan drew praise from some of its investors, including Dutch pension fund manager APG, which said the company could potentially make a “significant contribution” in cleaning up South Korea’s electricity market, considering its impact and influence on the national economy.
Sam Kimmins, director of energy and head of RE100 at the London-based Climate Group, which leads the clean electricity initiative, said Samsung’s commitment would send a message to others in the market that “it is possible, and critical, to switch to 100% renewable electricity.”
APG expressed concern, however, that Samsung’s announcement comes at a time when South Korea has been dialing back on its climate change goals.
The conservative government of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who took office in May, has focused much of its energy policy on promoting nuclear-generated electricity. Desperate to boost a weak economy, Yoon’s government has also indicated reluctance to sharply reduce the country’s dependence on coal and gas, which generate about 65% of South Korea’s electricity.
South Korea got 7.5% of its electricity from renewable sources in 2021, significantly lower than the 30% average among rich nations making up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Yoon’s government recently adjusted the country’s renewable energy target to 21% of the total energy mix by 2030, softening the 30% target announced by his liberal predecessor, Moon Jae-in.
Samsung acknowledged it would have a harder time converting to renewable electricity sources at home than at its foreign operations, where it aims to get to 100% clean energy by 2027. It said renewable energy supplies in South Korea “have begun to expand but remain limited,” while its electricity needs continue to rise as it boosts production at its domestic semiconductor lines to meet global demands.
“As a long-term investor in Korea, we are concerned about how the government plans to reconcile the industry’s desperate need for clean electricity to stay relevant in the long run,” Yoo-Kyung Park, APG’s Asia Pacific head of responsible investment and governance, said in a statement.
Samsung, South Korea’s biggest company, had faced growing pressure to do more to reduce its carbon emissions as it lagged behind some of its peers in climate commitments. Those companies include Apple, a major buyer of Samsung’s chips, which joined RE100 in 2016 and plans to be carbon neutral across its entire business and manufacturing supply chains by 2030, putting the pressure on its suppliers to meet those requirements.
Samsung is the crown jewel of an export-reliant economy driven by manufacturing of semiconductors, cars, display panels, mobile phones and ships, industries that tend to have high energy consumption.
Samsung used 25.8 terawatt hours of electricity for its operations last year, which was nearly twice the amount consumed by all households in the South Korean capital of Seoul and more than other global technology giants like Google, Apple, Meta, Intel, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Samsung’s embrace of clean electricity could have significant supply chain effects, pushing other companies to boost their renewable energy supplies, said Ousam Jin from the Seoul-based Corporate Renewable Energy Foundation.
“Most meaningfully, Samsung’s RE100 commitment sends a strong signal to the renewable energy market and policymakers to increase the supply of renewable energy considering the company’s massive electricity usage,” Jin said.
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Opelousas Mayor, Julius Alsandor, announced both lanes of S. Market will be closed at 220 S. Market St. (Opelousas Behavioral Clinic) due to work on a gas line in the road.
Vehicles will have access to businesses coming off Vine & Landry Street, but will not be able to use S. Market Street to get to or from Landry St. and Vine St.
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NEW YORK — Kanye West says he's breaking up with the Gap.
An attorney for Kanye West, who goes by Ye, told The Associated Press that a letter has been sent to the clothing chain Thursday seeking to terminate the contract between Gap and West's company, Yeezy.
The clash comes a little over a year after Yeezy's first item— a blue puffer jacket — appeared in Gap stores. The deal was announced in June 2020.
In the letter that West's lawyer shared with The AP on Thursday, it said that Gap failed to meet obligations in the pact, including distributing merchandise to Gap store locations and creating dedicated YZY Gap stores.
"Gap left Ye no choice but to terminate their collaboration agreement because of Gap's substantial noncompliance," said Nicholas Gravante, West's attorney with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, in an emailed statement to the AP. "Ye had diligently tried to work through these issues with Gap both directly and through counsel. He has gotten nowhere."
Gravante said that Gap's failure to comply with the terms of the contract has been costly. He said West plans to begin opening Yeezy retail stores.
West has unleashed criticism on social media against Gap as well as Adidas AG where he has a similar deal. Neither Gap nor Adidas immediately responded to requests for comment Thursday.
The San Francisco retailer had been hoping the partnership with West would resonate with customers in a period of declining sales. For Yeezy, being in more than 1,100 Gap stores worldwide would have put his brand in front of more people.
West has had a history with Gap. He worked at one of its stores in Chicago as a teenager. And he told Vanity Fair magazine back in 2015 that he wanted to be creative director for the brand.
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More sunshine today in Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – High pressure is keeping the sunshine over Middle Georgia this week.
Today
It was another mild morning around Middle Georgia as clear skies and temperatures in the lower 60s began the day. We will continue to see sunny skies all afternoon with only a couple of clouds developing. No rain is expected. Highs will reach the mid to upper 80s around the region. Ambient winds will blow in from the northeast at about 8-12 mph during the peak hours of the afternoon. Gusts could reach speeds upwards of 20 mph.
Tonight the winds will back off a bit as well as shift more towards the east, coming in at about 5-10 mph from the east-northeast. Any clouds that developed in the afternoon will clear shortly after sunset, giving us clear skies the rest of the night. Lows will reach the lower 60s around the region.
Tomorrow
It will be sunny again for our Friday. Highs will reach the mid to upper 80s around the region. Ambient winds will come from the east at about 8-12 mph with gusts upwards of 20 mph. No rain is expected.
Clear skies will persist tomorrow night as well. Ambient winds will actually have a bit of a southerly component for a bit as they blow in from the east-southeast at 5-10 mph. Lows will again be in the lower 60s.
Tropics
Tropical Storm Fiona currently has sustained wind speeds of 50 mph, and it is moving due west at 13 mph. The current forecast has it making a northward turn once it reaches the island of Hispaniola. At this time it is not expected to reach hurricane strength before then. Models are hinting that it could stay out to sea, but it will depend heavily on how long the stationary front off the east coast hangs around.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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During its annual dealership meeting in Las Vegas, Ford told its nearly 3,000 United States dealers that they will need to invest up to $1.2 million in upgrades to continue selling EVs under the automaker’s Ford Model E business unit.
Dealers have until October 31 to get on board if they want to be part of the first round of Model E stores, InsideEVs reported. Dealers can also sign on at specified later dates, or opt out of becoming Model E dealerships, according to the report.
Model E is the EV passenger-car and software division created when Ford split itself into three business units earlier this year. Along with Model E, Ford Pro handles commercial vehicles, while Ford Blue Oval handles internal-combustion passenger vehicles, hybrids, and plug-in hybrids.
Ford is creating two tiers of Model E dealerships—Certified and Certified Elite. Lower-tier Model E Certified dealerships will have to install at least one DC fast charger, which will also have to be available for public use. Ford estimates the cost to become Model E Certified will average $500,000.
As Ford outlined, Model E Certified Elite dealerships will need to, at minimum, install two high-power DC fast chargers and one Level 2 AC charger for customers, as well as one DC fast charger for public use. It estimates the all-in cost for Elite status to be $1 million to $1.2 million, and expects charging infrastructure to account for 90% of the upgrade cost for both tiers.
While Ford will stick with franchised dealerships instead of a Tesla-like direct sales model, dealers that opt into the Model E business will also have to agree to non-negotiable pricing.
Dealers can also opt out of becoming Model E certified, meaning they won’t be able to sell electric passenger cars in the future. Those that opt out by October 31 will have discontinue electric car sales effective January 1, 2024. Dealers will have another opportunity to become Model E certified, but then won’t be able to sell electric cars until January 2027.
It also appears Ford won’t offer buyouts to dealers, as General Motors is doing for Cadillac and Buick dealers that opt out of those brands’ EV shifts. In an interview with CNBC, Ford Model E chief customer officer Marin Gjaja said the Blue Oval’s plan gives dealers more choices.
“We don’t think it’s fair to force them to go on the EV journey or force them into a buyout,” Gjaja said.
Dealers can also stick with the Blue Oval and Pro business units and continue selling other vehicles, Ford spokesperson Said Deep told Motor Authority, noting that the automaker is still launching new internal-combustion models like the redesigned 2024 Mustang muscle car and upcoming new Ranger pickup truck, and claiming the business plan accounts for the needs of smaller stores.
“We undertook an extensive listening tour of our dealers to understand their markets and customer needs as we developed new dealer standards,” he said.
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Police service commission staff hail resignation of Smith
• Say we don't want retired police officer as chairman of commission again
The striking civilian staff of the Police Service Commission, PSC, under the umbrella of the Joint Union Congress, on Thursday, hailed the resignation of the chairman of the commission, Alhaji Musiliu Smith but said that the battle was not over yet.
Speaking with the Tribune Online in Abuja before going to a congress summoned to determine the next line of action, the chairman of the PSC chapter comrade Adoyi, said we welcome the development but rather than see this as a reason to celebrate.
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- Police service commission staff hail resignation of Smith
“We note that it is not yet over, especially against the background of the fact that, more than even the chairman of the commission, the onus lied more on the IGP, Usman Alkali Baba to toe the path of honor and resign, to save his face and the image of the NPF – indeed, restore confidence in the Nigerian system, for the ignoble act he perpetuated in active connivance with Mr. M A K Smith in the constant rape of the constitution while it lasted.
” So, in sober reflection, we are most humbled to make this urgent call on the president, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR; to, in the spirit of magnanimity and the overriding national interest shrug off any pressure from any quarters in the attempt to further appoint retired policemen to the chairmanship position of the Police service commission’s board.
“We make this plea, conscious of the prerogative of the president but conscious of the fact that national interest had been submerged by parochial interests in the past, due to the choices of individuals for the chairmanship position obviously due to their backgrounds as policemen.
Alhaji Smith had, on Wednesday evening, during the plenary session of the board tendered his resignation following reported pressures from other members of the board to resolve the lingering crisis
The congress of striking workers is in progress.
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The Queen’s niece and nephew and their families
The Earl of Snowdon and his children, Viscount Linley and Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones
The Queen's only nephew, David is the son of Her Majesty's younger sister, Princess Margaret, and the 1st Earl of Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones. He inherited his father's title to become the 2nd Earl in 2017. Recently divorced from his wife, Serena, he has two children, 23-year-old Charles, Viscount Linley, and 20-year-old Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones. Honorary chairman for Christie's Europe, Middle East and Russia, he's also a furniture designer and is known to be close to his cousin, King Charles III.
Lady Sarah Chatto, her husband Daniel, and their sons Arthur and Sam
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Don't you want to dance? The first trailer for the Whitney Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, has dropped, starring Naomie Ackie as the voice of a generation.
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The trailer begins with legendary record executive Clive Davis, portrayed by Stanley Tucci, exiting a limo and entering a small concert venue. A young Whitney is unexpectedly thrust onstage to sing when her mother Cissy Houston (played by Tamara Tunie) loses her voice and can't sing as planned. Houston belts out the first few bars of an acoustic version “How Will I Know,” and the rest is history. We flash forward to Whitney signing her record deal with Davis and then excitedly waking up to hear her first song on the radio,
“My dream? Sing what I want to sing and be who I want to be,” Houston says, while images of her singing in the church choir with her mother, popping champagne, and performing in arenas flood the screen. We then follow Houston in her iconic white track suit as she makes her way to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl as “How Will I Know” swells beneath her. “A common criticism of you is that your music isn't Black enough,” says a radio host to a Houston. “I don't know how to sing Black, and I don't know how to sing white either,” she says. “I know how to sing.”
And sing she does. While Houston had a history of drug abuse and died unexpectedly in 2012 at age 48, the trailer for I Wanna Dance With Somebody is overwhelmingly positive and upbeat, highlighting soaring moments in her career like her performance of the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl, her music videos for “I Will Always Love You” and “How Will I Know,” and many others. In an interview with People, Ackie said that the film finds a way to "fit in so many of our favorite songs" from Houston's catalogue, and that it explores “parts of her life that we know about, but through the scope of her own internal world.”
The trailer comes to a climactic end with Ackie recreating Houston's triumphant national anthem. Over voiceover, Tucci, as Clive Davis, says what we all know to be true about the starlet he stumbled upon: “I might have just heard the greatest voice of her generation."
I Wanna Dance With Somebody is directed by Kasi Lemons with a script from Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten. “She completely inhabits the character of Whitney,” Lemons told People regarding Ackie. “She put in a year of rigorous preparation so that her transformation onscreen displays effortless virtuosity and is utterly believable.”
I Wanna Dance with Somebody hits theaters December 21.
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Continuing their week of mourning for Queen Elizabeth, the Prince and Princess of Wales traveled to the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to visit with mourners who have gathered to share condolences on Thursday. People reports that the couple spent about 45 minutes speaking with people outside of the estate’s Norwich Gates, where 30,000 floral tributes have been laid. Though William and Kate have both shown some of their emotions during their previous appearances at Windsor and the Palace of Westminster, their trip to Sandringham was especially emotional.
According to the Telegraph, Will expressed his own feelings when he encountered a woman who said she was close to tears. “Don’t cry now—You’ll start me,” he said. Roya Nikkhah of The Times reported that he said he was touched by the public reaction. “I’m learning that she was everyone’s grandmother—the way people have reacted,” he said.
Nikkhah also noted that Kate told a crowd member that their children have learned the news, but their reactions haven’t been the same; nine-year-old Prince George has absorbed the news, but seven-year-old Princess Charlotte and four-year-old Prince Louis are having more trouble understanding.
The Telegraph also spoke to Jane Wells, who chatted with the couple about their experience at Wednesday’s procession from Buckingham Palace. “He said how difficult it was yesterday and how it reminded him of his mum’s funeral,” Wells said. “Catherine said it’s just been such a difficult time for all of them, for the whole family.”
For decades, the royal family has celebrated Christmas at Sandringham Estate, and William and Kate have their own house on the estate, Anmer Hall, where they spent most of the coronavirus pandemic. The queen’s husband Prince Philip spent three years living full-time at the estate’s Wood Farm Cottage, where the queen was said to help with the dishes and other chores on weekends.
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2 Arrested in Washington County for attempting to smuggle items into prison with drone
SANDERSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Two people were arrested early Sunday on September 11th, when Washington County Deputies made contact with a suspicious vehicle parked at a church on Highway 231 in Davisboro.
According to WCSO, 2 people were sitting in the vehicle when deputies made contact- while speaking with them, deputies noticed a drone hovering over their heads carrying a large objects. The 2 were detained, and investigation showed that they were attempting to smuggle illegal items into the prison in Davisboro.
Those two were identified as 34-year-old Courtney Nickerson of Cordele and 26-year-old Lacie Rogers of Bonaire.
They were both charged with criminal attempt to commit a felony, while Nickerson was charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, as well as possession by a first offender felon. Rogers was also charged with the possession of a firearm during the commission of a felon.
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Macon-Bibb files for closure of M&M Grocery of Montpelier Avenue
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Macon-Bibb County has asked Superior Court to close M&M Grocery on Montpelier Avenue permanently.
According to a release from Macon-Bibb County, Thursday, the county filed suit in Superior Court due to officials saying it’s a well-known center of frequent serious criminal activity, including violent offenses, homicides, and drug activity.
The decision to file the suit for closure came after a review of all of the incidents from previous years that were connected to the location. The release says since 2016, over 894 emergency 911 calls have been placed from the location, along with 75 cases going back to 2019 cited in the suit including homicides, car theft, stabbings, shootings, and the ongoing sale of drugs like heroin, crack cocaine, methamphetamines, xanax, ecstasy, and more.
Macon-Bibb has asked that the court closes M&M Grocery immediately, temporarily, and permanently in order to abate the public nuisance that has been maintained at the location.
Mayor Lester Miller had this to say about the closure:
“This list of cases we submitted is not a complete list of the incidents our deputies have responded to; they merely represent the most egregious of them from the past three years,” and “This neighborhood is plagued by what’s happening here, and we must do what we can within our power to protect people from such a high concentration of dangerous activity.”
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Morning Business Report: Starbucks to spend $450 million to improve business
Many small companies say inflation is a major concern.
Virios therapeutics is working therapies for hard to treat diseases like IBS, fibromyalgia, and fatigue.
Starbucks plans to spend 450 million dollars on drive-thrus, mobile orders and delivery.
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Whether new or used, buying a car is tough these days. If you do find one, chances are the cost is sky-high.
"The price of a used car was the price of a new car, pretty much," potential car buyer Yesenia Maura said.
A new report shows consumers paid an average of $44,559 for a new, non-luxury car in August. And the average used car went for just under $32,000 in July.
Stubborn inflation coupled with supply chain issues made the auto market impossible for consumers.
Now, many are holding on to the cars they already have for longer.
"It used to be people would keep their cars eight years. Then it was 10 years. Now, it's 12-14 years the average person is keeping their car for," Ron Katz with Midas said.
But it's not just a problem for your average car buyer. Even police departments are having a hard time.
"This past Monday, we were notified that Ford canceled all of our orders for 2022 police interceptors," said Robert L. Ruxer III, law enforcement services division commander for the Colonial Heights, Virginia, police department.
The department was then given the chance to buy 2023 models instead. But that came at an extra cost of $7,500 per vehicle, which the city government ended up covering.
It's the latest example of automakers prioritizing their more expensive models at a time when potential buyers have fewer options. For example, Cadillac will soon debut a $300,000 electric vehicle.
It's a move that's paying off for luxury car makers. Porsche, which is expected to go public by the end of the year, is expecting to see $39 billion in sales for 2022, up 20% from 2021.
Meanwhile, consumers are left with fewer and more costly options.
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Boeing officials said Thursday they will find new buyers for some Boeing 737 Max jets that were built for Chinese airlines but can’t be delivered because China’s aviation regulator has not cleared the plane to fly after two deadly crashes.
Boeing hopes the move will reduce its inventory of undelivered Max jets, which built up while the planes were grounded around the world.
However, the decision risks adding to tension between the aircraft manufacturer and China, which was once Boeing’s biggest market for the Max.
Arlington, Virginia-based Boeing had 290 undelivered 737s in inventory as of June 30, with about half of them earmarked for China, company officials said. The company did not disclose how many might be resold to new buyers.
Boeing’s hopes were raised last December, when China’s aviation regulator took a major step toward letting airlines resume using the Max. In February, Chinese airlines ran flight tests. But the Civil Aviation Administration of China has not taken the final steps to allow Max flights and deliveries to resume, which Boeing officials blame on COVID-19 lockdowns.
Meanwhile, the company was running out patience.
“We have deferred decisions on those planes for a long time. We can’t defer that decision forever,” Boeing Chief Financial Officer Brian West said Thursday. “So we will begin to re-market some of those airplanes that were otherwise earmarked for our Chinese customers.”
China “is an important market,” and Boeing did not make the decision lightly, West said during a Morgan Stanley investor conference. But he expressed confidence that Boeing can find new buyers for the planes, which list at $100 million and up — although airlines routinely get deep discounts.
China is the last major market where the Max is still awaiting approval to fly. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approved changes Boeing made to the plane in late 2020, and regulators in Europe, Canada and Brazil have followed suit.
The importance of the Chinese market to Boeing was underscored in July, when China’s three largest airlines ordered nearly 300 planes from its European rival Airbus.
U.S. relations with China were strained during the administration of former President Donald Trump, who waged a trade war with China. On Thursday, Boeing CEO David Calhoun said free trade with China has helped the company but that recent “geopolitical events” will “slow us down.”
“I think we will get back there some day,” Calhoun said at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event. “I just don’t think it’s a day soon.”
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX has hired an auto industry executive to lead the railroad after its current CEO retires.
Jacksonville, Florida-based CSX Corp. said Thursday that Joe Hinrichs will take over from Jim Foote at the end of this month. Hinrichs previously served as president of Ford Motor Co.’s global auto business.
Hinrichs said in an interview with The Associated Press he’s very excited that CSX and the other major railroads were able to reach a tentative contract agreement Thursday with unions to prevent a potentially devastating national strike.
“Our employees are going to get a well-deserved raise after working so hard the last couple years through the pandemic,” Hinrichs said. “We’re excited about moving from here. Now we can move our conversation into how do we work together to grow the business and better serve our customers.”
The railroads have been plagued with delivery delays that prompted shippers to complain loudly this year about poor service. Federal regulators got involved and ordered the railroads to address the problems.
But improvement has come slowly. CSX and the other major railroads each needed to hire and train hundreds of additional workers, and that has been difficult amid the ongoing nationwide labor shortage.
Hinrichs said he hopes the new union contracts will help CSX attract and retain more employees.
He said he knows the railroad business as a customer, but not the details of its operations. He has been studying up on the Precision Scheduled Railroading model that CSX has used to slash its costs in recent years and will plan to lean on the expertise of CSX’s managers.
“Fortunately, we have a very strong operating team here at CSX that has implemented Precision Scheduled Railroading in the last couple years,” Hinrichs said. “The results have been outstanding. Many people believe CSX is a leader in that regard.”
Hinrichs said he has “read all the books that Hunter Harrison put out” and has been talking to people in the industry to learn more. Harrison originated the Precision Scheduled Railroading model when he led the Canadian railroads and implemented it at CSX before his death.
The model relies on using fewer, longer trains with a mix of freight on them, so railroads can operate with fewer locomotives and employees. Since CSX put it in place, the model has been widely adopted by other U.S. railroads. Collectively, the major U.S. railroads have used the model to cut nearly one-third of their workforce over the past six years.
Foote agreed to remain on as an advisor through March to help with the transition.
CSX is one of the nation’s largest railroads, and it operates more than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of track in 26 Eastern states and two Canadian provinces after acquiring Pam-Am Railways in the northeastern United States earlier this year.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans picked up their spending a bit in August from July even as surging inflation on household necessities like rent and food took a toll on family budgets.
U.S. retail sales rose an unexpected 0.3% last month after falling 0.4% in July, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Excluding business at gas stations, sales rose 0.8%.
The sales figures for August were largely boosted by higher spending on vehicles. Sales of purchases at motor vehicles and parts dealers rose 2.8% last month. Excluding vehicle sales, spending slipped 0.3%. Excluding both vehicle and gas spending, retail sales rose 0.3%.
While the report showed shoppers’ resilience, the figures also are not adjusted for inflation unlike many other government reports. In fact, sales at grocery stores rose 0.5% , helped by rising prices in food.
There was, however, weakening in some areas of discretionary spending with Americans fully aware of inflation’s bite. Business at restaurants ticked up 1.1%, but the pace has slowed. Sales at furniture stores fell 1.3%. Online sales fell 0.7% last month after Amazon’s Prime Day boosted e-commerce sales in July.
“Retailers would probably like to be growing more, especially relative to inflation, but I’m not sure they could realistically hope for much more,” said Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate.com. “Consumer spending habits are changing as the pandemic continues to recede and inflation remains high.”
Consumer spending accounts for nearly 70% of U.S. economic activity and Americans have remained mostly resilient even with inflation near four-decade highs. Yet surging prices for everything from mortgages to milk have upped the anxiety level. Overall spending has slowed and shifted increasingly toward necessities like food, while spending on electronics, furniture, new clothes and other non-necessities has faded.
On Thursday, it appeared that the U.S. dodged a national freight rail strike, which could have sent retail prices higher.
Still, inflation remains stubbornly high. Lower gas costs slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but most other prices across the economy kept going up — evidence that inflation remains a heavy load for American households.
Consumer prices rose 8.3% from a year earlier and 0.1% from July. But the jump in “core” prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, was especially worrisome. It outpaced expectations and sparked fear that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates more aggressively and raise the risk of a recession.
Retailers are wrapping up what has turned out to be a decent back-to-school shopping season. But many retail executives say that customers are being more selective when they buy, a trend that could hold through the only shopping period that tops back to school in sales, the weeks leading up to winter holidays.
Jill Renslow, executive vice president of business development and marketing at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, said that mall is faring well with families generously spending for the back-to-school season. But she said the lower income Americans are tightening their belts and waiting for sales.
“They’re being more selective in where they are shopping and what they are purchasing, what they’re spending their time on,” she said.
Shoe Carnival, which has stores located in strip malls rather than enclosed malls, did well during the pandemic as Americans avoided being indoors as much as possible. CEO Mark Worden said the chain is now getting another bump as people trade down to lower price footwear amid soaring inflation.
Shoppers are buying fewer shoes this year compared with the last year when business was boosted by the government stimulus checks. But customers are still buying more shoes than in the pre-pandemic 2019.
The government’s monthly report on retail sales covers about a third of all consumer purchases and doesn’t include spending on most services, ranging from plane fares and apartment rents to movie tickets and doctor visits. In recent months, Americans have been shifting their purchases away from physical goods and more toward travel, hotel stays and plane trips as the threat of the virus fades.
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During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spent more than a third of their income on rent went up, according to survey results released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Providing the most detailed data to date on how life changed in the U.S. under COVID-19, the bureau’s American Community Survey 1-year estimates for 2021 showed that the share of unmarried couples living together rose, Americans became more wired and the percentage of people who identify as multiracial grew significantly. And in changes that seemed to directly reflect how the pandemic upended people’s choices, fewer people moved, preschool enrollment dropped and commuters using public transportation was cut in half.
The data release offers the first reliable glimpse of life in the U.S. during the COVID-19 era, as the 1-year estimates from the 2020 survey were deemed unusable because of problems getting people to answer during the early months of the pandemic. That left a one-year data gap during a time when the pandemic forced major changes in the way people live their lives.
The survey typically relies on responses from 3.5 million households to provide 11 billion estimates each year about commuting times, internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities, military service and employment. The estimates help inform how to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending.
Response rates significantly improved from 2020 to 2021, “so we are confident about the data for this year,” said Mark Asiala, the survey’s chief of statistical design.
While the percentage of married-couple households stayed stable over the two years at around 47%, the percent of households with unwed couples cohabiting rose to 7.2% in 2021 from 6.6% in 2019. Contrary to pop culture images of multigenerational family members moving in together during the pandemic, the average household size actually contracted from 2.6 to 2.5 people.
People also stayed put. More than 87% of those surveyed were living in their same house a year ago in 2021, compared to 86% in 2019. America became more wired as people became more reliant on remote learning and working from home. Households with a computer rose, from 92.9% in 2019 to 95% in 2021, and internet subscription services grew from 86% to 90% of households.
The jump in people who identify as multiracial — from 3.4% in 2019 to 12.6% in 2021 — and a decline in people identifying as white alone — from 72% to 61.2% — coincided with Census Bureau changes in coding race and Hispanic origin responses. Those adjustments were intended to capture more detailed write-in answers from participants. The period between surveys also overlapped with social justice protests following the killing of George Floyd, who was Black, by a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020 as well as attacks against Asian Americans. Experts say this likely lead some multiracial people who previously might have identified as a single race to instead embrace all of their background.
“The pattern is strong evidence of shifting self-identity. This is not new,” said Paul Ong, a professor emeritus of urban planning and Asian American Studies at UCLA. “Other research has shown that racial or ethnic identity can change even over a short time period. For many, it is contextual and situational. This is particularly true for individuals with multiracial background.”
The estimates show the pandemic-related impact of closed theaters, shuttered theme parks and restaurants with limited seating on workers in arts, entertainment and accommodation businesses. Their numbers declined from 9.7% to 8.2% of the workforce, while other industries stayed comparatively stable. Those who were self-employed inched up to 6.1% from 5.8%.
Housing demand grew over the two years, as the percent of vacant homes dropped from 12.1% to 10.3%. The median value of homes rose from $240,500 to $281,400. The percent of people whose gross rent exceeded more than 30% of their income went from 48.5% to 51%. Historically, renters are considered rent-burdened if they pay more than that.
“Lack of housing that folks can afford relative to the wages they are paid is a continually growing crisis,” said Allison Plyer, chief demographer at The Data Center in New Orleans.
Commutes to work dropped from 27.6 minutes to 25.6 minutes, as the percent of people working from home during a period of return-to-office starts and stops went from 5.7% in 2019 to almost 18% in 2021. Almost half of workers in the District of Columbia worked from home, the highest rate in the nation, while Mississippi had the lowest rate at 6.3% Over the two years, the percent of workers nationwide using public transportation to get to work went from 5% to 2.5%, as fears rose of catching the virus on buses and subways.
“Work and commuting are central to American life, so the widespread adoption of working from home is a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Michael Burrows, a Census Bureau statistician. “With the number of people who primarily work from home tripling over just a two-year period, the pandemic has very strongly impacted the commuting landscape in the United States.”
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Whether new or used, buying a car is tough these days. If you do find one, chances are the cost is sky-high.
"The price of a used car was the price of a new car, pretty much," potential car buyer Yesenia Maura said.
A new report shows consumers paid an average of $44,559 for a new, non-luxury car in August. And the average used car went for just under $32,000 in July.
Stubborn inflation coupled with supply chain issues made the auto market impossible for consumers.
Now, many are holding on to the cars they already have for longer.
"It used to be people would keep their cars eight years. Then it was 10 years. Now, it's 12-14 years the average person is keeping their car for," Ron Katz with Midas said.
But it's not just a problem for your average car buyer. Even police departments are having a hard time.
"This past Monday, we were notified that Ford canceled all of our orders for 2022 police interceptors," said Robert L. Ruxer III, law enforcement services division commander for the Colonial Heights, Virginia, police department.
The department was then given the chance to buy 2023 models instead. But that came at an extra cost of $7,500 per vehicle, which the city government ended up covering.
It's the latest example of automakers prioritizing their more expensive models at a time when potential buyers have fewer options. For example, Cadillac will soon debut a $300,000 electric vehicle.
It's a move that's paying off for luxury car makers. Porsche, which is expected to go public by the end of the year, is expecting to see $39 billion in sales for 2022, up 20% from 2021.
Meanwhile, consumers are left with fewer and more costly options.
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PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the plastic tanks on the truck’s flat bed.
His timer is set for 5 minutes, 20 seconds — when the tank will be full and he’ll turn to the second one.
The water pulled from the ground here will be piped dozens of miles across rugged landscape to serve the roughly 700,000 tourists a year who visit the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai reservation in northwestern Arizona — an operation that is the tribe’s main source of revenue.
Despite the Colorado River bordering more than 100 miles of Hualapai land in the canyon, the tribe can’t draw from it. Native American tribes in the Colorado River basin have inherent rights to the water, but the amount and access for a dozen tribes hasn’t been fully resolved, not for decades.
The 1922 Colorado River Compact that divided the water among states didn’t include a share for tribes. Now that the river is shrinking because of overuse, drought and human-caused climate change, tribes want the federal government to ensure their interests are protected.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
A water settlement pending in Congress would give the Hualapai Tribe the right to draw river water, plus $180 million to pipe it to tribal communities and the main tourist center at Grand Canyon West.
“It was the best of a bad deal,” said Phil Wisely, the tribe’s public services director. “And the thing is, I don’t think we could get a better deal, especially now.”
The Colorado River can no longer can meet the needs of the 40 million people and $15 billion agriculture industry that depend on it. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation recently announced that Arizona, Nevada and Mexico would see deeper cuts to their water supply in 2023. The agency also is asking seven Western states to find a way to conserve more.
LONG-STANDING RIGHTS
The 29 tribes in the Colorado River basin are in fact among the river’s most senior water rights holders, a determination often tied to the date the federal government established a reservation. Tribal water rights — once they’re fully resolved — could add up to about one-quarter of the river’s historic flow, according to the Water & Tribes Initiative.
Unlike other water users, tribes don’t lose access to water when they don’t use it. A 1908 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as the Winters Doctrine says tribes have the right to enough water to establish a permanent homeland. Often, tribes give up potentially huge water claims in exchange for an assured supply and federal funding to deliver it.
To the northeast of Hualapai, the Ute Indian Tribe has Colorado River tributaries flowing on its reservation east of Salt Lake City. While the tribe has secured some rights, not everyone agrees on how much more it should receive, delaying a settlement for decades.
Ute Indian Tribe leaders say they’re tired of reiterating that the federal government needs to protect tribal interests, a duty laid out in treaties and other acts.
“Until you start to deal with the inequities or the injustice, you can never really have any momentum going forward,” said Shaun Chapoose, chairman of the Ute Business Committee.
“You’re not resolving that. And they are in a position to do that, they are the federal government.”
The situation of both the Hualapai and Ute Indian Tribe highlights the frustration of Native American leaders across the basin that although their rights may not be quantified, they are real.
Other tribes that have secured water rights have pitched in to help their neighbors amid the prolonged drought by conserving water in key reservoirs along the Colorado River. Some lease or exchange water, and use it to sustain the environment, sometimes creating revenue for themselves.
But Jay Weiner, who represents tribes in water settlements, said it would be unjust to continue to rely heavily on tribes when they haven’t had access to the water as long as states in the basin.
“The tribes have already front-loaded and sacrificed by the fact that the basin has been able to use huge amounts of water that tribes have rights to over the past 100 years,” Weiner said.
In a statement to The Associated Press, the Interior Department did not say how tribal water rights, which are federal rights, would be protected as the river’s flow decreases. It said it is working with tribes that are affected by drought.
HAULING WATER ON HUALAPAI LAND
Querta’s job is a grind but he’s well-suited for it — analytical, quick and goal-oriented. He takes meticulous notes on water levels and quality as he fills the tanks that ensure tourists at Grand Canyon West have water.
The truck takes a beating on the gravel and dirt road on multiple round trips of more than 30 miles most days. The side mirrors and back windows that rattled loose are held together by red duct tape. Querta keeps tools on hand for minor repairs. Major ones or illness can put him out of commission.
He was out for two weeks because of COVID-19 last year and had no replacement.
“I didn’t mind because I didn’t want anybody to mess up my truck or my tanks,” said Querta. “I take care of this truck like it’s mine.”
Once he’s filled the tanks on the truck bed, the water is sent through a pipeline from just outside of Peach Springs to Grand Canyon West. The tourist center is crucial. Revenue from it funds tribal programs for the elderly, public works, the cultural center, scholarships and other social services. The main attraction is the Grand Canyon Skywalk — a horseshoe-shaped glass bridge that gives tourists a view of the Colorado River 4,000 feet below.
There is not a drop to spare at Grand Canyon West. A restaurant that overlooks the Grand Canyon has waterless urinals in the restrooms and faucets with sensors. Customers are served bottled water and food in disposable containers with plastic utensils, cutting out most of dish washing.
Even if the Hualapai eventually get water from the Colorado River, those practices will stay in place, said operations manager Alvaro Cobia-Ruesga.
“We see what’s going on, we have to conserve water for our future,” he said.
The tribe has long planned to expand Grand Canyon West with a store, fire and police station, housing and elementary school to serve tribal members who ride a shuttle up to five hours round trip daily from Peach Springs and surrounding communities to their jobs there.
But without a secure source of water for Grand Canyon West, it won’t happen, said tribal Chairman Damon Clarke. Under the settlement pending in Congress, the tribe would be responsible for building out the infrastructure to deliver water.
“One of the biggest things with our settlement is hope for the future and getting this not for us at this time but for the generations ahead,” Clarke said.
Part of the reason the Hualapai Tribe did not prioritize discussions on water rights long ago is because tribal members believed that water came with their land, said Rory Majenty, board chairman of the Grand Canyon Resort Corp. that oversees Grand Canyon West.
“We took things for granted,” he said. “Like you knew you were going to eat, you knew the sun was going to come up. Tomorrow is another day.”
The settlement has its critics, including Hualapai rancher Clay Bravo. He said the tribe should wait, negotiate a better deal and develop groundwater resources at the same time. He’s not satisfied with a lower priority water right that he equates to crumbs, given the Hualapai Tribe has been on the land since time immemorial.
“How can we run a race and come in first and get the fourth-place trophy?” Bravo said, leaning against a pickup truck on a rocky road overlooking an old water well that was contaminated with radium.
Even with secure water rights, tribes can’t always fully put the water to use because they lack infrastructure. A pipeline eventually will reach the southwestern portion of the Jicarilla Apache Nation in New Mexico through another tribe’s water settlement to boost economic development in the region. Jicarilla Apache has leased water it already has access to for energy production, recreation and conservation, and to benefit threatened and endangered fish. Tribes in the Phoenix area have leased water to nearby cities.
The Colorado River Indian Tribes, whose reservation sits along the river bordering Arizona and California, doesn’t have the legal authority to lease its water, though a bill is pending in Congress to authorize it.
“It’s our sovereignty and beneficial rights of our water — the full beneficial rights of our water,” said tribal Chairwoman Amelia Flores. “We want to lease, we don’t want to sell our water, and that’s the difference.”
WHAT IS JUST?
The Ute Indian Tribe wants that same ability. The tribe asserts rights to 550,000 acre-feet. (An acre-foot is enough water to serve two to three U.S. households annually). A settlement negotiated 30 years ago recognizes about half of that.
“Utah’s position is that’s the number we’re comfortable with, and we think that does more than enough to satisfy the claims of the Utes,” said Utah deputy state engineer Jared Manning.
But the tribe hasn’t ratified the settlement. The Utes have sued in federal court over access to water. A judge ruled in one case last year that the tribe waited too long to bring its claims against the federal government and Utah.
Daniel McCool, professor emeritus at the University of Utah, said the larger question is whether the Ute Indian Tribe has been treated justly and whether funding for water diversions have been on par with non-Native American interests.
“There’s a reason why the tribe doesn’t have much water and why almost all the water in the region is being used by white people,” said McCool, who studies tribal water rights. “Look at who got the money, the Central Utah Project. Who got the water? Ask yourself that and ask, ‘does this look fair to you?’”
It’s a question tribal members have posed for decades, whether the first inhabitants of what’s now the U.S. should have anything but the oldest, most secure water rights. Inevitably, others will lose water they’ve grown accustomed to using as tribes gain access to it.
“People have been taking our water. Are they taking it legally or illegally?” Majenty said.
“The argument from the other side is it’s capitalism, free enterprise. That’s where they got us. Ownership is where it’s at. Until you have a piece of paper, it’s not yours.”
___ Fonseca covers Indigenous communities on the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/FonsecaAP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in residential Washington on Thursday morning in the bitter political battle over the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants out of Texas to cities with Democratic mayors as part of a political strategy this year because he says there are too many arrivals over the border to his state. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also has adopted this policy, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also got in on the act recently. It was first dreamed up by former President Donald Trump.
Abbott tweeted that he’d sent the buses that arrived Thursday: “We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.”
About two dozen men and women stood outside the U.S. Naval Observatory at dawn, clutching clear plastic bags of their belongings carried with them over the border, before moving to a nearby church. Harris’ office had no immediate comment.
The steady flow of migrant buses has caused a scramble in Washington, with Mayor Muriel Bowser calling for federal intervention and a coalition of NGOs forming to handle the new arrivals, backed by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This coalition has become accustomed to wildly divergent levels of coordination between the Texas and Arizona buses.
Tatiana Laborde, managing director of the international relief agency SAMU First Response, said the buses from Arizona come with detailed manifests of passengers and their nationalities, coordination on arrival times and medical personnel aboard each bus.
“They don’t want to just dump people here,” Laborde told The Associated Press last month.
In contrast, she said, the Texas buses arrived chaotically. They only hear from charitable groups on the Texas end that a bus carrying a certain number of people has departed. At some point about 48 hours later, that bus drops off riders at Washington’s Union Station.
Thursday morning’s surprise drop-off outside Harris’ residence suggests governors like Abbott were looking for creative new ways to make their political point — with the District of Columbia as the playing field.
Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, called the move “inhumane” and accused Abbott of “using human beings, babies, families, as political pinatas”
Speaking to reporters outside Harris’ residence, Garcia said the two busloads of migrants from Texas were “dumped like human garbage” in Washington on Thursday. He also said many of the migrants were being “tricked into signing these releases,” – something both the Texas and Arizona governments have denied.
He also called for both Republican and Democratic politicians to come together around, “a bipartisan solution to fixing our broken immigration system. I agree that it’s broken.”
After migrants seeking asylum cross the U.S.-Mexico border, they spend time in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility along the border until they are generally released into the U.S. to wait out their cases. Republicans say Biden’s policies encourage migrants to vanish into the U.S.; Democrats argue the Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to wait out their asylum cases in Mexico was inhumane.
DeSantis flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. And last week, Abbott sent about 75 migrants to Chicago.
Bowser has requested a National Guard deployment but was rejected by the Pentagon; the deployment was opposed by the NGOs, who called it an unnecessary militarization of a humanitarian issue.
Last week, Bowser declared a limited state of public emergency over the migrant issue and proposed forming a new Office of Migrant Services with $10 million in funding. The proposal comes before the D.C. Council next week.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just rocket fuel propelling America’s first moonshot after a half-century lull. Strategic rivalry with China’s ambitious space program is helping drive NASA’s effort to get back into space in a bigger way, as both nations push to put people back on the moon and establish the first lunar bases.
American intelligence, military and political leaders make clear they see a host of strategic challenges to the U.S. in China’s space program, in an echo of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry that prompted the 1960s’ race to the moon. That’s as China is quickly matching U.S. civil and military space accomplishments and notching new ones of its own.
On the military side, the U.S. and China trade accusations of weaponizing space. Senior U.S. defense officials warn that China and Russia are building capabilities to take out the satellite systems that underpin U.S. intelligence, military communications and early warning networks.
There’s also a civilian side to the space race. The U.S. is wary of China taking the lead in space exploration and commercial exploitation, and pioneering the technological and scientific advances that would put China ahead in power in space and in prestige down on Earth.
“In a decade, the United States has gone from the unquestioned leader in space to merely one of two peers in a competition,” Sen. Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, declared this week at a Senate Armed Services hearing. “Everything our military does relies on space.”
At another hearing last year, NASA administrator Bill Nelson brandished an image transmitted by a Chinese rover that had just plunked down on Mars. “The Chinese government … they’re going to be landing humans on the moon” soon, he said. “That should tell us something about our need to get off our duff.”
NASA, the U.S. civilian space agency, is awaiting a new launch date this month or in October for its Artemis 1 uncrewed test moonshot. Technical problems scrubbed the first two launch attempts in recent weeks.
China likewise aims to send astronauts to the moon this decade, as well as establish a robotic research station there. Both the U.S. and China intend to establish bases for intermittent crews on the moon’s south pole after that.
Russia has aligned with China’s moon program, while 21 nations have joined a U.S.-initiated effort meant to bring guidelines and order to the civil exploration and development of space.
The parallel efforts come 50 years after U.S. astronauts last pulled shut the doors on an Apollo module and blasted away from the moon, in December 1972.
Some space policy experts bat down talk of a new space race, seeing big differences from John F. Kennedy’s Cold War drive to outdo the Soviet Union’s Sputnik and be the first to get people on the moon. This time, both the U.S. and China see moon programs as a stepping stone in phased programs toward exploring, settling and potentially exploiting the resources and other untapped economic and strategic opportunities offered by the moon, Mars and space at large.
Beyond the gains in technology, science and jobs that accompany space programs, Artemis promoters point to the potential of mining minerals and frozen water on the moon, or using the moon as a base to go prospecting on asteroids — the Trump administration in particular emphasized the mining prospects. There’s potential in tourism and other commercial efforts.
And for space more broadly, Americans alone have tens of thousands of satellites overhead in what the Space Force says is a half-trillion dollar global space economy. Satellites guide GPS, process credit card purchases, help keep TV, radio and cell phone feeds going, and predict weather. They ensure the military and intelligence community’s ability to keep track of perceived threats.
And in a world where China and Russia are collaborating to try to surpass the U.S. in space, and where some point to private space efforts led by U.S. billionaires as rendering costly NASA rocket launches unnecessary, the U.S. would regret leaving the glory and strategic advantages from developing the moon and space solely to the likes of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Tesla magnate Elon Musk, Artemis proponents say.
The moon programs signal that “space is going to be an arena of competition on the prestige front, demonstrating advanced technical expertise and know-how, and then also on the military front as well,” said Aaron Bateman, a professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University and a member of the Space Policy Institute.
“People who are supportive of Artemis and people who see it as a tool of competition, they want the United States to be at the table in shaping the future of exploration on other celestial bodies,” Bateman said.
There’s no shortage of such warnings as the Artemis program moves toward lift-off. “Beijing is working to match or exceed U.S. capabilities in space to gain the military, economic, and prestige benefits that Washington has accrued from space leadership,” the U.S. intelligence community warned this year in its annual threat assessment.
A Pentagon-commissioned study group contended last month that “China appears to be on track to surpass the U.S. as the dominant space power by 2045.” It called that part of a Chinese plan to promote authoritarianism and communism down here on Earth.
It’s sparked occasional heated words between Chinese and U.S. officials.
China’s space program was guided by peaceable principles, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in July. “Some U.S. officials are constantly smearing China’s normal and reasonable outer space undertakings,” Zhao said.
Flying on the mightiest rocket ever built by NASA, Artemis 1 aims for a five-week demo flight that would put test dummies into lunar orbit.
If all goes well with that, U.S. astronauts could fly around the moon in 2024 and land on it in 2025, culminating a program that will have cost $93 billion over more than a decade of work.
NASA intends that a woman and a person of color will be on the first U.S. crew touching foot on the moon again.
Lessons learned in getting back to the moon will aid in the next step in crewed flights, to Mars, the space agency says.
China’s ambitious space program, meanwhile, is a generation behind that of the United States. But its secretive, military-linked program is developing fast and creating distinctive missions that could put Beijing on the leading edge of space flight.
Already, China has that rover on Mars, joining U.S. ones already there. China carved out a first with its landing on the far side of the moon.
Chinese astronauts are overhead now, putting the finishing touches on a permanent orbiting space station.
A 1967 U.N. space treaty meant to start shaping the guardrails for space exploration bans anyone from claiming sovereignty over a celestial body, putting a military base on it, or putting weapons of mass destruction into space.
“I don’t think it’s at all by coincidence or happenstance that it is now in this period of what people are claiming is renewed great-power competition that the United States is actually investing the resources to go back,” said Bateman, the scholar on space and national security. “Time will tell if this turns into a sustained program.”
Competition isn’t necessarily a bad thing, said Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Does rivalry with the Chinese “ensure greater sustained interest in our space program? Sure,” Coons said. “But I don’t think that’s necessarily a competition that leads to conflict.
“I think it can be a competition — like the Olympics — that simply means that each team and each side is going to push higher and faster. And as a result, humanity is likely to benefit,” he said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, the White House announced Thursday.
“He wanted to let them know that they remain front of mind and that his team is working on this every day, on making sure that Brittney and Paul return home safely,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at Thursday’s press briefing at the White House.
The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans’ release. The administration said in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to get them home, but despite plans for the White House meetings, there is no sign a breakthrough is imminent.
“While I would love to say that the purpose of this meeting is to inform the families that the Russians have accepted our offer and we are bringing their loved ones home — that is not what we’re seeing in these negotiations at this time,” Jean-Pierre said.
She added: “The Russians should accept our offer. The Russians should accept our offer today.”
Griner has been held in Russia since February on drug-related charges. She was sentenced last month to nine years in prison after pleading guilty and has appealed the punishment. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges that he and his family say are false. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained, placing their cases with the office of its top hostage negotiator.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of announcing two months ago that the administration had made a substantial proposal to Russia. Since then, U.S officials have continued to press that offer in hopes of getting serious negotiations underway, and have been following up through the same channel that produced an April prisoner swap that brought Marine veteran Trevor Reed home from Russia, said a senior administration official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in advance of Thursday’s formal announcement.
The negotiations, already strained because of tense relations between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have also been complicated by Russia’s apparent resistance to the proposal the Americans put on the table.
The Russians, who have indicated that they are open to negotiations but have chided the Americans to conduct them in private, have come back with suggestions that are not within the administration’s ability to deliver, said the administration official, declining to elaborate.
The administration has not provided specifics about its proposal, but a person familiar with the matter previously confirmed it had offered to release Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer who is imprisoned in the U.S. and who has long been sought by Moscow. It is also possible that, in the interests of symmetry, Russia might insist on having two of its citizens released from prison.
Biden spoke by phone in July with Griner’s wife, Cherelle, and with Whelan’s sister, Elizabeth, but both families have also requested in-person meetings. On Friday, Biden plans to speak at the White House with Cherelle Griner and with the player’s agent in one meeting and with Elizabeth Whelan in the other, according to the official.
The meetings are being done separately so as to ensure that each family has private time with the president. But the fact that they are happening on the same day shows the extent to which the two cases have become intertwined since the only deal that is presumably palatable to the U.S. is one that gets both Americans — a famous WNBA player and a Michigan man who until recently was little known to the public — home together at the same time,
In the past several months, representatives of both families have expressed frustration over what they perceived as a lack of aggressive action and coordination from the administration.
Cherelle Griner, for instance, told The Associated Press in an interview in June that she was dismayed after the failure of a phone call from her wife that was supposed to have been patched through by the American Embassy in Moscow left the couple unable to connect on their fourth anniversary.
Whelan’s relatives have sought to keep attention on his case, anxious that it has been overshadowed in the public eye by the focus on the far more prominent Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time WNBA all-star. They also conveyed disappointment when Whelan, despite having been held in Russia since December 2018, was not included in a prisoner swap last April that brought home Reed.
Friday’s meetings were scheduled before news broke this week of an unconnected trip to Russia by Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been a veteran emissary in hostage and detainee cases. Administration officials reacted coolly to that trip, with State Department spokesman Ned Price saying Wednesday that dialogue with Russia outside the “established channel” risks hindering efforts to get Griner and Whelan home.
Administration officials say work on hostage and detainee cases persists regardless of whether a family receives a meeting with the president, though there is also no question such an encounter can help establish a meaningful connection.
Biden met in the Oval Office in March with Reed’s parents after the Texas couple stood with a large sign outside the White House calling for their son’s release. The following month, he returned home.
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Forrest B. Johnson and Associates Law Firm presented a $10,000 donation to the Bibb Education Foundation Thursday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Forrest B. Johnson and Associates Law Firm presented a $10,000 donation to the Bibb Education Foundation Thursday.
$5,000 will go to Ballard Hudson Middle School and $5,000 will go to Southwest High School.
Bibb County Superintendent Dr. Dan Sims spoke about the message this sends to the community.
“Here is a community member, a business who’s doing his part to help the school system,” he said. “We want everyone to be encouraged to do the same.”
Forrest B. Johnson and Associates Law Firm also recognized Bibb County school resource officers with $100 gas cards.
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Local health providers recommend high-dose flu vaccine for those 65 and up
As we approach flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending those 65 and older get a high-dose flu vaccine.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — As we approach flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending those 65 and older get a high-dose flu vaccine.
Staff at Piedmont Urgent Care say it’s not too early to start talking about the flu. The flu season starts toward the end of September.
Nurse Practitioners like Melissa Diahl say it’s important for people 65 and older to get a high-dose flu shot.
“They’re at higher risk of the chances of more immuno-compromised patients in that age group,” she said. “They’re also at higher risk of comorbidities.”
Michael Hokanson, the Public Information Officer for the North Central Health District, explains the difference between a regular flu shot and a high-dose one.
“It’s just a more powerful version of the flu shot,” he said. “It provides an extra level of protection over the regular flu shot.”
Hokanson says the high-dose flu shot contains products intended for those 65 and older.
He says although the pandemic may have lessened the spread of the flu, it’s still very prevalent. The health department’s goal is to see an increase in flu vaccinations this year.
“We want people to have that level of protection that they don’t have if they don’t have their flu shot,” he said.
While Piedmont Urgent Care says getting the flu vaccine now will help build up your immune system.
“It’s not necessarily going to prevent you from spreading the flu, but it will help your body fight off the virus and infection,” Diahl said.
Piedmont Urgent Care says flu vaccines will be available later this month. You can stop by or make an appointment at the center, located at 2410 Ingleside Avenue in Macon.
The North Central Health District is already offering flu vaccines by appointment only. You can schedule an appointment here.
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Macon Hispanic Fest happening this weekend
Several organizations are coming together to host Macon's Hispanic Fest during this Hispanic Heritage Month.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Several organizations are coming together to host Macon’s Hispanic Fest during this Hispanic Heritage Month.
The event is happening Saturday at Rosa Parks Square on Poplar Street. Notivision Georgia, Mercer University and Macon-Bibb’s Office of Small Business Affairs are hosting the event.
To kick off the month, organizers say they wanted to incorporate the Hispanic experience through music, dances and food.
The family-friendly event will include fun activities for kids like face painting and character appearances from the Disney movie “Encanto.”
A food giveaway and a diaper giveaway will also be happening.
Monica Pirela, the CEO of Notivision Georgia, explained the importance of the event.
“I think the most important is the message for the community to say we are here, and we are a big community. We are different people from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras.Wwe are 21 countries representing the Hispanic community, and this event is for everybody.”
Portions of Poplar Street will be closed for the event, which is happening from 1 to 7 p.m.
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Nice weather continues Friday
Sunshine will be sticking around through the day Friday with highs warming into the mid and upper 80s.
High pressure has really taken over control of our weather here in Middle Georgia this week and Friday will be no exception.
Overnight, clear skies will allow lows to drop into the upper 50s early Friday morning.
Sunshine will be sticking around through the day Friday with highs warming into the mid and upper 80s.
Not much changes over the weekend, other than a small spike in humidity that we will see Saturday and Sunday.
Rain chances stay very low over the weekend, but an isolated shower (mainly south of I-16) can’t be ruled out.
Our next change in the forecast comes next week, but it won’t include rain or storms.
Highs will be warming into the mid 90s by the middle of next week.
So it seems that our false fall will be coming to an end shortly.
In the Atlantic Tropical Storm Fiona formed yesterday and will slowly push west over the weekend.
At some point it seems like the storm will be weakened by shear in the area, as well as impact from land.
There are currently no impacts expected for Middle Georgia, but we will be keeping an eye on it for next week.
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Publix Super Market Charities donates $5 million to Feeding America food banks
September is Hunger Action Month, and Publix Super Market Charities is donating more than $5 million to hundreds of Feeding America food banks.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – September is Hunger Action Month, and Publix Super Market Charities is donating more than $5 million to hundreds of Feeding America food banks.
40 Publix volunteers representing five Publix store across Middle Georgia put the action in Hunger Action Month.
Volunteers came to the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank Thursday as part of the Publix Serves project to pack boxes of nutritious food for distribution to families in need.
Publix Super Market Charities recently announced a $5 million donation to help food banks across the country.
The Middle Georgia Community Food Bank received $60,000 of that total donation. Publix District Manager Rick Bryd says he’s happy to give back.
“There are a lot of people out there who need that extra support, and Publix is here to help support our community and to show that we’re not just a grocery chain, that we’re here serve our local community,” he said.
The Executive Director of the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank, Kathy McCollum, says the donation from Publix will help the food bank provide food to other food shelters and families throughout Middle Georgia.
“The beautiful thing about the funding we’re getting from Publix is that it is providing us with some much-needed funds to build some consistency and some sustainability in our network so that we are not just feeding people today, but we’re setting up those systems and expanding those systems that will feed people into the future,” she said.
In all, $5.6 million will help more than 300 food banks.
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ACCOMAC, Va. - On Courthouse Avenue heading toward downtown Accomac, visitors are welcomed by the Doric columns of the former Accomac High School and Elementary school, which was built in 1932.
Also welcoming visitors are cries of "SOS" peppered around town, a plea to "Save Our School."
"To ride in town and see this beautiful school here, we hate to see it torn down. If you tear it down it's history gone," said Accomac Town Councilman Tommy Hines.
The grounds of the former school have been used for several years as a storage area for Accomack County Schools. They are a proposed site for relocation of the County School Board and related offices.
One proposal for the property calls for a renovation and rehabilitation of the current building.
But what has neighbors concerned is the other proposal - to tear down the structure and build a new one.
Accomac families have a history in the former school.
"My grandmother grew up here in Accomac and she and her three sisters all went to Accomac School," said Accomac neighbor Rick Hall. Also also mentioned that his father attended Accomac High School for several years.
A cost analysis by a Virginia-based firm estimated that both options would cost nearly the same - about $5.5 million, with the renovation estimated to be only $5,000 more expensive.
But for Tommy Hines, the memories made in the former school are priceless.
"There was a lot of graduations from Onancock School here in this auditorium," Hines said."It had more room that we could graduate. [We have] a lot of memories from that."
WBOC reached out to several School Board members and district officials, some of whom support replacing the 90-year-old building, but they were unavailable for interviews. They said, though, that they are continuing to evaluate several different cost analyses for both options.
The Accomack County Board of Supervisors will ultimately made the decision on the future of the building. No timeframe has been set, though, on any possible vote.
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UPDATE: 23-year-old man found dead in east Macon
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a body was found in east Macon Thursday night.
UPDATE: A 23-year-old man was found dead Thursday night in east Macon.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to a call of a person shot at the intersection of Denton Street and Haywood Road. Upon arrival, deputies found 23-year-old Jermaine Brandon Reynolds lying in the road unresponsive.
Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley pronounced him dead at the scene.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a body was found in east Macon Thursday night.
Sgt. Clay Williams confirmed the discovery without confirming the exact location. He said he’s working to provide more information.
That’s all we have right now. Check back for updates.
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Historic Macon unveils new headquarters
The Historic Macon Foundation unveiled its new office headquarters Thursday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Historic Macon Foundation unveiled its new office headquarters Thursday.
The preservation group moved from Poplar Street to the old fire hall No. 4, located at 950 Third Street.
Crews rehabilitated the fire station, which was originally built in 1870.
Executive Director Ethiel Garlington says the building is a central location for all of the organization’s current projects and it brings life to historic downtown Macon.
“It really is pushing the development boundaries of downtown, and so this was a unique opportunity for us,” he said. “But when you see this building, you see our sign on this building, you think Historic Macon should have their headquarters in this beautiful historic building.”
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed on 41NBC News Top stories from September 15, 2022 September 15, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, 2 Arrested in Washington County for attempting to smuggle items into prison with drone Macon-Bibb files for closure of M&M Grocery of Montpelier Avenue Local health providers recommend high-dose flu vaccine for those 65 and up For other stories you may have missed, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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Macon elementary school celebrates ‘Dot Day’
Heard Elementary School celebrated International Dot Day Thursday by showing off some art work.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Heard Elementary School celebrated International Dot Day Thursday by showing off some art work.
Dot Day started with a book titled The Dot.
It’s a story of an art teacher looking to motivate a student who felt they couldn’t draw.
Heard Elementary art teacher Tracy Wheeler says when students are nervous about art, it’s best to start out slow.
“There’s something creative in everybody, and I just have to draw it out,” she said. “So I start with just a line and shape, and then add color, and to try to just get them ease, not to be afraid of it and be able to create.”
Principal of Heard Elementary Carol Cote said the students had a good time showing off their dot outfits.
“One little boy who came in with eyeballs glued on his shirt,” Cote said. “He was precious, and he was so proud, so you can tell that had been a family activity and activities like this they engage everybody, so it’s nice to have our parents help the children.”
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The End Zone Game of the Week Preview: ACE vs. Northeast, Pt. 3
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. at ACE.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The End Zone Game of the Week features a first-ever matchup between the ACE Gryphons and the Northeast Raiders.
The ACE Gryphons have kicked off year one under head coach Keith Hatcher 4-0 and are averaging 54.8 points per game, making this the best start to a Gryphons season since the football program began in 2018.
“The biggest thing we want to do is give our community a football team they can be proud of. We wanted to generate some excitement early on. We’ve done that. But again, we’ve got a long way to go. We’re still growing as a program. We want to get to the level where we can compete for championships,” said Hatcher.
After coming off their best season in program history, The Northeast Raiders haven’t had the best of luck this season, losing their first two games by a combined three points. But last week, the Raiders claimed their first victory against Carver, who was ranked second in the 3A. So for head coach Jeremy Wiggins, it’s about continuing what the team did well last Friday.
“Win all three phases of the game: special teams, offense and defense. Come out and play hard, play fast, play physical. Be mentally sharp. No mental mistakes. No stupid penalties, which we’ve been doing a good job of penalties and cutting down on that,” said Wiggins.
Facing a Macon school like Northeast gives the Gryphons a solid point of comparison.
“Northeast is an established program. Coach Wiggins has done a great job over there. They’ve got some really good players, and they’re well-coached. They’ve had a lot of success in recent years. They’re really where we want to get to. So this is a big measuring stick for us Friday night to kind of gauge where we are as a program,” said Hatcher.
The End Zone Game of the Week is scheduled for Friday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. at ACE.
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PARIS (AP) — Many domestic and some international flights were canceled in France Friday as air traffic controllers went on a national strike over pay and recruitment issues.
French civil aviation authority DGAC warned that domestic traffic would be “severely disrupted” with many flights canceled and other experiencing long delays. Travelers have been advised to postpone their trip if possible.
Air France said it has canceled 55% of its short- and medium-haul flights and 10% of its long-haul flights. The company could not rule out further delays and last-minute cancellations, it said in a statement.
Other companies operating in France, including Ryanair, Easyjet and Volotea, have also canceled flights.
Mamadou Souré, 42, arrived Friday morning at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport from Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
“We were supposed to take a flight to Milan at 9:30 a.m. but it was canceled, but thank God we found a flight at 1:30 p.m. for Turin. We’ll see if we can make it to Milan from there,” he said.
Maria Oudon, from Orlando, Florida, was relieved to see her flight mentioned as “on time” on the airport’s board. “We did spend all night worrying about it because they said to possibly change your flight or have other options. And we still came because we had to take our daughter to school,” she said.
France’s main union of air traffic controllers, the SNCTA, called the one-day strike to demand higher pay amid soaring inflation and demanding more staff to be hired in the coming years.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany is taking control of three Russian-owned refineries in the country to ensure energy security before an embargo on oil from Russia takes effect next year, officials said Friday.
Two subsidiaries of Russian oil giant Rosneft — Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH — will be put under the administration of Germany’s Federal Network Agency, the Economy Ministry said in a statement.
As a result, the agency will also control the companies’ shares in the refineries PCK Schwedt, MiRo and Bayernoil, located in the east and south of Germany.
“This is a far-reaching energy policy decision to protect our country,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. “We’ve long known that Russia isn’t a reliable supplier of energy anymore.”
“With today’s decision, we’re ensuring that Germany is supplied with oil in the medium- and long-term as well,” Scholz said. “That is particularly true for the Schwedt refinery.”
The facility provides petroleum products to much of northeastern Germany, including Berlin.
Rosneft accounts for about 12% of Germany’s oil refining capacity, importing oil worth several hundred million euros (dollars) every month, the ministry said.
It said the move would help ensure continued energy supplies and was initially due to last for six months.
Rosneft had previously made clear it had no intention to stop imports of oil via the Druzhba pipeline, which runs from Russia through Ukraine to refineries in central Europe, despite a looming EU embargo coming into force on Jan 1, 2023.
Scholz said a 1-billion-euro (dollar) aid package would secure jobs for about 1,200 people currently working at the PCK refinery in Schwedt and help with its long-term transformation as part of the transition toward a green economy.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said the refinery would in the future receive oil through a pipeline from the port city of Rostock and via neighboring Poland, which had refused to provide supplies as long as there was a risk that Rosneft might profit from them.
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The Queen’s State Funeral will of course feature a roll call of the great and the good in British royal spheres. The inner sanctum of the late Queen’s family who we will recognise, from the new Prince and Princess of Wales to Lady Louise Windsor, as well as many of her much-loved cousins. Plus there’ll be the most prominent figures in British politics. But of the 2,200 guests who have been invited (RSVPs ought to be in by now), there will be a wealth of international dignitaries that one may not immediately recognise – and, increasingly so, their plus ones (since all the various leaders have been invited with a guest of their choice – who, most likely, will be their spouse or partner). Here’s the definitive Tatler guide to some of the anticipated plus ones who have made the cut.
Tatler’s definitive guide to the plus ones you can expect to see at the Queen’s State Funeral
As far as Brits go: there’ll be the obvious ones – Hugh O’Leary, the accountant husband of Prime Minister Liz Truss and Downing Street’s newest resident (who one might recognise from those recent arrival photographs). Then there’ll be Carrie Johnson and Cherie Blair – whose other halves need little introduction. Other plus ones of high profile politicians will include Lady Starmer – and, less obviously, Emily Gasson (Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey’s wife), Peter Murrell (First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon's husband) and Mary O’Shea (the wife of Irish premier Michael Martin).
The ‘mammoth task’ of the Queen’s funeral has been likened by one official to organising ‘100 state visits at once’. That sounds reasonably accurate – plus one wise, we’ll be expecting First Lady Jill Biden accompanying her husband, the US President, Joe Biden. The White House confirmed earlier this week that former US Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump will not be in attendance, which by virtue means Blighty won’t be graced by the stylish presence of neither Michelle Obama nor Melania Trump. In place, the British government has invited former presidents to a memorial service for the Queen at Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday 21 September.
On to the European leaders’ plus ones: Brigitte Macron, always immaculately turned out, will likely accompany her husband the French President Emmanuel Macron. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will most probably come with his chic judge wife, Elke Büdenbender, who serves at the Berlin Administrative Court. Then we’ll hopefully see Finnish poet Jenni Haukio – the author of three published poetry collections – and the wife of Finland’s president Sauli Niinisto. Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, may well invite her husband Heiko, a German physician and aristocrat, who is the medical director of the US biotech company Orgenesis (which specialises in cell and gene therapies). While Charles Michel, the European Council President, will most probably bring his wife Amélie Derbaudrenghien Michel.
It is also hoped that Olena Zelenksa, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr, will attend the Queen’s funeral while her husband remains at home amid the continued war against Russia. She is a woman that has risen to national attention since 24 February, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, and no doubt many state funeral attendees will delight in the opportunity to voice their support to her and her country first hand.
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, has confirmed her attendance – likely in the company of her fiancé Clarke Gayford, a radio and television broadcaster (including of the popular fishing documentary, Fish of the Day). Plus, newly appointed Australian PM Anthony Albanese – who may well bring his partner Jodie Haydon, a financial services professional. Then there’s Justin Trudeau, who the Queen was known to be fond of, and who is likely to be accompanied by his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, a former television host. Michelle Bolsonaro, a Brazilian interpreter and the glamorous First Lady of Brazil, may well join her husband President Jair Bonsonaro – we'll have to wait and see. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will attend ‘if the schedule allows’ and if so, most likely in the presence of his wife, Emine Erdogan.
Additionally: Princess Charlene of Monaco and Prince Albert II, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway have all confirmed their attendance – as well as Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia. But, in these royal examples, neither is really a ‘plus one’ as such.
And between the famous heads of state, there will also be all the holders of the Victoria Cross or George Cross – plus Her Majesty’s many close staff, such as her ladies-in-waiting and footmen. The official guest list is still to be revealed – the RSVP deadline was yesterday, Thursday 15 September, so the seating plan will be rolled out imminently. The plus ones are likely to have quite a day ahead of them, and all in memory of our beloved late Queen Elizabeth II.
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If hell is a teenage girl, then count on Netflix’s Do Revenge to deliver your latest dose of purgatory. Starring Camila Mendes as fallen It girl Drea and Maya Hawke as outsider Eleanor, the film centers on a vengeance plot deliciously conceived by high schoolers, and pays homage to Y2K-era movies from Clueless to Cruel Intentions along the way.
“Do Revenge is like a Pinterest board exploded on Netflix,” filmmaker Jennifer Kaytin Robinson previously told Vanity Fair. When she wasn’t curating the film’s hyperspecific onscreen aesthetic, Robinson spent her time capturing the behind-the-scenes vibes for posterity. “I love Polaroids, and I’ve always been drawn to that type of photography,” she said during a recent Zoom. “I started this knowing that I wanted to document the making of the film and have my own little time capsule of it. Polaroids just felt like a really fun version of that. Ultimately, I want to make a coffee-table book of all of them.”
Always armed with her Polaroid Now i-Type and Polaroid OneStep+ instant cameras, Robinson often had to sneak in spontaneous pictures either during rehearsal or at the tail end of a take. “It’s funny because I didn’t want to be intrusive to my own process as a filmmaker as this Polaroid photographer, which was my side hustle,” she said with a laugh. “But I tried to find those moments, and then whenever I remembered the camera was out, I tried to set up these tableaux and get these little pictures.”
In celebration of her sophomore directorial feature (streaming now on Netflix), Robinson shared her exclusive behind-the-scenes photo diary with VF—and couldn’t resist quoting Clueless in the process.
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LONDON — Prince William has told well-wishers that walking behind the coffin of his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was “challenging” and brought back memories of the funeral of his mother, Princess Diana.
William and his wife, Catherine, the new Princess of Wales, spent almost an hour Thursday chatting with dozens of people and viewed floral tributes outside Sandringham Estate, the royal country residence in Norfolk.
During Wednesday’s coffin procession, William and his brother, Prince Harry, walked behind the queen’s coffin along with their father, King Charles III, and the king’s siblings from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.
William, speaking of the procession, said: “The walk yesterday was challenging.”
Jane Wells, 54, was among the thousands who turned up outside Sandringham Thursday. “I said how proud his mother would have been of him, and he said how hard it was yesterday because it brought back memories of his mother’s funeral,” she told reporters afterward.
Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Many in Britain still remember the image of a young William and his brother Harry walking with their father behind her coffin.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— London mourners brave 9-hour wait to say goodbye to queen
— What to know about the queen’s lying in state
— Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy
— With its queen gone, Britain ponders how to discuss death
— Palace reveals details of queen’s state funeral on Monday
— Find more AP coverage here: https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday it would be “perfectly acceptable” for King Charles III to continue to advocate for climate change action in his new apolitical role as monarch.
Albanese was speaking ahead of his departure for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
Albanese said the new king would decide whether he continues to advocate for reduced greenhouse gas emissions, as he has done for years as a prince.
“It’s important that the monarchy distance from party political issues. But there are issues like climate change where I think if he chooses to continue to make statements in that area, I think that is perfectly acceptable,” Albanese said. “It should be something that’s above politics, the need to act on climate change.”
The British monarch is also Australia’s head of state.
In his first speech as king last week, Charles suggested he would be more circumspect as monarch and step back from his advocacy on a range of issues.
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KAMPALA, Uganda — Hundreds of Ugandans attended a memorial service in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, a somber ceremony that underscored affection for the departed British monarch in this East African country.
Speakers in the Anglican cathedral in the Ugandan capital on Thursday included Foreign Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo, who paid tribute to the queen as an “endearing” leader.
“She wasn’t the queen of England alone,” she said. “She was the queen of all of us in the Commonwealth.”
The Rev. Jonathan Kisawuzi, the cathedral’s dean, spoke of the queen’s “faith, courage and direction” in her 70-year reign. “We will remember her always,” he said.
Uganda is one of the 56 member states of the Commonwealth, a group of mostly former British colonies that now includes others, such as Rwanda, that were not part of the British Empire.
Elizabeth is fondly remembered among Ugandans, who recall her attendance at the 2007 Commonwealth summit held in Kampala.
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TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he’ll travel to London with former prime ministers for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and that Canadians will continue to benefit from the stability the monarchy provides.
Trudeau and Canada’s opposition leaders paid tribute to the late queen in a special session of Parliament on Thursday. She visited the country 22 times as monarch.
Trudeau said she embraced her role as queen of Canada and said “her sudden absence has struck us all palpably and profoundly.”
“Her Majesty was everywhere. Her face on our coins. Her portrait hanging in Parliament and post offices. Her televised Christmas address a cozy ritual in homes from coast to coast to coast,” Trudeau said.
“Canadians feel like they’ve lost a family member – a family member who grew up alongside us.”
Trudeau said in Canada’s constitutional monarchy, the crown’s function is to be a bedrock for the constitution, and to transcend daily political debates.
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LONDON — A group of British legislators sanctioned by China have written to officials expressing concerns that the Chinese government has been invited to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.
Conservative lawmaker Tim Loughton told the BBC on Thursday the invitation to China should be rescinded, citing the country’s human rights abuses and treatment of Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.
Britain “can’t possibly have official representatives of the Chinese government attending such an important occasion,” he said.
The Chinese ambassador to the U.K. is banned from Parliament after Beijing sanctioned seven British legislators last year over their stance on China.
It is not clear whether President Xi Jinping, currently meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Uzbekistan, will attend Monday’s state funeral. Media reports suggest Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan may attend.
Russia, Belarus and Myanmar were not included in the funeral invitation list.
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LONDON — Thousands of people have turned up at Sandringham Estate, the royal country estate in Norfolk, to greet Prince William and his wife Catherine.
The royal couple appeared outside the gates of the estate to view the sea of floral tributes left for Queen Elizabeth II and to greet thousands of well-wishers.
A large crowd gathered outside the country residence on the eastern English coast early Thursday, hoping for a chance to meet and speak with the couple.
William and Kate, known since the queen’s death as the Prince and Princess of Wales, walked slowly along metal barriers as they received bouquets from the public and chatted to well-wishers.
Sandringham was the queen’s country retreat, where she spent some of her childhood years and where she presided over many Christmas family gatherings.
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LONDON — Buckingham Palace has announced that two minutes of silence will be observed across the United Kingdom at the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral.
The funeral is to be held at Westminster Abbey on Monday, with some 2,000 guests attending, including visiting heads of state and other dignitaries.
Officials said Thursday that after the funeral, the late queen’s coffin will be transported through the historic heart of London on a horse-drawn gun carriage.
It will then be taken in a hearse to Windsor, where the queen will be interred alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
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LONDON — While mourners in London are standing in a 4-mile (6.5-kilometer) line to view Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lying in state, members of the royal family are meeting crowds gathered in other parts of Britain.
Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, went to Manchester in northern England on Thursday to view tributes left for the queen and speak to well-wishers.
Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, was due to visit Glasgow in Scotland later in the day with her husband, Sir Tim Laurence.
Meanwhile, the Prince and Princess of Wales were to view flowers left outside Sandringham House in Norfolk, in eastern England.
King Charles III, the new monarch, spent a day in private.
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LONDON — Standing in line to see the queen’s coffin as it lies in state in London is proving a test of patience and stamina for thousands of people.
By late Thursday morning, the line had grown to about 3½ miles (5.6 kilometers) long on the south bank of the River Thames, reaching as far as Tower Bridge.
Authorities warn those planning to come: “You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down, as the queue will keep moving.”
The closed coffin sits on a raised platform, called a catafalque, inside Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament.
Visitors go through airport-style security. Only small bags are permitted.
The venue is to stay open 24 hours a day until just after dawn on Monday, the day of the queen’s state funeral.
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LONDON — The spiritual leader of the Church of England has been meeting mourners in the long line of people waiting patiently to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
Wearing a high-visibility vest, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was on hand Thursday to speak to some of the thousands of people in the queue along the south bank of the River Thames.
He paid tribute to the late monarch, who died last Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
“She was someone you could trust totally, completely and absolutely, whose wisdom was remarkable,” he said.
Her death and transfer of the crown to her son, King Charles III, “means we will move seamlessly to another person who will demonstrate service for the country, and see their role not as over everyone, but to serve the country and the constitution,” Welby said.
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LONDON — Thousands of people have stood in line through the night in London, waiting their turn to view Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin as it lies in state.
Authorities said the line on Thursday stretched about 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) along the south bank of the River Thames.
The queen’s flag-draped oak coffin is lying in state at 900-year-old Westminster Hall for four days before her funeral on Monday.
People, hushed and somber, streamed past each side of the coffin.
Military detachments standing guard are rotated every 20 minutes.
One of the ceremonial guards appeared to faint early Thursday and fell off the raised platform. His condition was not immediately clear.
The queen died in Scotland last Thursday at age 96, ending a 70-year reign.
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has sent King Charles III his condolences and offered him his full support in addressing “common challenges.”
Those challenges include “the protection of the climate and the planet,” a statement from the French presidency said.
Before he became monarch after last week’s death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles often spoke out on those issues. But as sovereign he is expected to tread more carefully in his political comments.
Macron spoke with the king by phone on Wednesday. He said on Twitter he will attend the Queen’s funeral.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in residential Washington on Thursday morning in the bitter political battle over the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants out of Texas to cities with Democratic mayors as part of a political strategy this year because he says there are too many arrivals over the border to his state. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also has adopted this policy, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also got in on the act recently. It was first dreamed up by former President Donald Trump.
Abbott tweeted that he’d sent the buses that arrived Thursday: “We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.”
About two dozen men and women stood outside the U.S. Naval Observatory at dawn, clutching clear plastic bags of their belongings carried with them over the border, before moving to a nearby church. Harris’ office had no immediate comment.
The steady flow of migrant buses has caused a scramble in Washington, with Mayor Muriel Bowser calling for federal intervention and a coalition of NGOs forming to handle the new arrivals, backed by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This coalition has become accustomed to wildly divergent levels of coordination between the Texas and Arizona buses.
Tatiana Laborde, managing director of the international relief agency SAMU First Response, said the buses from Arizona come with detailed manifests of passengers and their nationalities, coordination on arrival times and medical personnel aboard each bus.
“They don’t want to just dump people here,” Laborde told The Associated Press last month.
In contrast, she said, the Texas buses arrived chaotically. They only hear from charitable groups on the Texas end that a bus carrying a certain number of people has departed. At some point about 48 hours later, that bus drops off riders at Washington’s Union Station.
Thursday morning’s surprise drop-off outside Harris’ residence suggests governors like Abbott were looking for creative new ways to make their political point — with the District of Columbia as the playing field.
Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, called the move “inhumane” and accused Abbott of “using human beings, babies, families, as political pinatas”
Speaking to reporters outside Harris’ residence, Garcia said the two busloads of migrants from Texas were “dumped like human garbage” in Washington on Thursday. He also said many of the migrants were being “tricked into signing these releases,” – something both the Texas and Arizona governments have denied.
He also called for both Republican and Democratic politicians to come together around, “a bipartisan solution to fixing our broken immigration system. I agree that it’s broken.”
After migrants seeking asylum cross the U.S.-Mexico border, they spend time in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility along the border until they are generally released into the U.S. to wait out their cases. Republicans say Biden’s policies encourage migrants to vanish into the U.S.; Democrats argue the Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to wait out their asylum cases in Mexico was inhumane.
DeSantis flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. And last week, Abbott sent about 75 migrants to Chicago.
Bowser has requested a National Guard deployment but was rejected by the Pentagon; the deployment was opposed by the NGOs, who called it an unnecessary militarization of a humanitarian issue.
Last week, Bowser declared a limited state of public emergency over the migrant issue and proposed forming a new Office of Migrant Services with $10 million in funding. The proposal comes before the D.C. Council next week.
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Perry school named 2022 National Blue Ribbon School
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recognized 297 schools Friday.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Houston County elementary school is one of six Georgia schools named as a 2022 National Blue Ribbon School. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.
Friday, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recognized 297 schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022. The list includes six Georgia schools:
- Georgia – Appling – North Columbia Elementary School, Columbia County School District.
- Georgia – Bremen – Jones Elementary School, Bremen City School District.
- Georgia – Jefferson – Jefferson Elementary School, Jefferson City School District.
- Georgia – Perry – Kings Chapel Elementary School, Houston County School District.
- Georgia – Rome – Armuchee Primary School, Floyd County School District.
- Georgia – Trion – Trion Middle School, Trion City School District.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, National Blue Ribbon Schools serve as models of effective school practices for state and district educators and other schools throughout the nation. A National Blue Ribbon School flag at a school’s entryway is a recognized symbol of exemplary teaching and learning.
“I applaud all the honorees for the 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools Award for creating vibrant, welcoming, and affirming school communities where students can learn, grow, reach their potential, and achieve their dreams,” said Secretary Cardona. “As our country continues to recover from the pandemic, we know that our future will only be as strong as the education we provide to all of our children. Blue Ribbon Schools have gone above and beyond to keep students healthy and safe while meeting their academic, social, emotional, and mental health needs. These schools show what is possible to make an enduring, positive difference in students’ lives.”
The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program has bestowed approximately 10,000 awards to more than 9,000 schools.
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UPDATE: Man arrested in connection with robbery of north Macon Dollar Tree
A 23-year-old is now in custody in connection to the armed robbery of Dollar Tree on 175 Tom Hill Sr. Blvd. this week.
UPDATE (9/16): A 23-year-old is now in custody in connection to the armed robbery of Dollar Tree on 175 Tom Hill Sr. Blvd. this week.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says Taqwa Suwan Dixon of Macon was identified as one of the suspects involved and warrants were issued for his arrest.
He was located at his home and taken into custody.
Dixon is being held at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center without bond. He’s charged with armed robbery, false imprisonment and kidnapping.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a commercial armed robbery that happened Wednesday night.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says it happened just before 10 o’clock at Dollar Tree, located at 175 Tom Hill Sr. Boulevard.
Witnesses told deputies two males, dressed in dark clothing with their faces hidden, entered the store with guns and demanded money from the clerk. They ran after receiving cash, and no one was injured.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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NPR's Juana Summers chats with Marcus Mumford about his debut solo album, Self-Titled, which is a deeply personal exploration of healing, mercy and forgiveness.
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NPR's Juana Summers chats with Marcus Mumford about his debut solo album, Self-Titled, which is a deeply personal exploration of healing, mercy and forgiveness.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers face felony charges for allegedly shooting and seriously wounding an unarmed man during a July shootout on the city’s southwest side that also wounded a second man, authorities said Friday.
Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos, 43, and Officer Ruben Reynoso, 42, have been charged with one count each of aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and official misconduct, said Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
Foxx said the officers were relieved of their police powers on Thursday before they turned themselves in to authorities.
Foxx said both officers “are being charged with having fired their shots” that wounded an unarmed 23-year-old man — identified separately Friday through a civil court filing as Miguel Medina — on July 22 in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood. That man has since recovered and is cooperating with the investigation, she said.
“The victim who was shot and injured in this incident was not in possession of a weapon, nor did he fire a weapon at these two officers,” Foxx said during a news conference.
After the shooting, police said in a statement that two officers who had observed four people loitering in front of a closed store stopped to investigate and identified themselves as police.
Police said one of the four in the group then displayed a handgun and an exchange of gunfire ensued in which Medina suffered gunshot wounds and was transported to a hospital in serious condition.
Foxx said that based on a review of the evidence, including video surveillance footage, prosecutors believe “the officers involved in this incident did not have provocation or justification to shoot the unarmed” Medina.
“The evidence does not support the use of deadly force related to the shooting of the unarmed victim, and was not lawful,” Foxx said.
Assistant State’s Attorney Alyssa Janicki said Friday at the officers’ bond hearing that a juvenile and Medina initially approached the unmarked police vehicle when questioned by the officers.
The juvenile ran, but Medina showed both hands to the officers as Reynoso and Liakopoulos both pointed their guns out the vehicle’s passenger window and started shooting. Medina was shot in the back and leg.
The juvenile, who Janicki said had a gun in a satchel across his chest, kept running before turning and firing shots at the officers who shot back. A pedestrian near the juvenile suffered a grazing wound.
The officers were heading to a morning training course and were in plain clothes at the time of the shooting. Neither had on their police body cameras because they were going to training, Janicki said.
Prosecutors later obtained surveillance video from the area.
After the shooting, Foxx said, the two officers “made representations to legal authorities, including the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, that was directly contradicted by the videotaped evidence.”
Brian Sexton, Reynoso’s attorney, said during Friday’s hearing that his client was focused on the 17-year-old with the gun and never shot in the direction of Medina.
Sexton said that after Reynoso watched a surveillance video of the shooting, he told the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the state’s attorney’s office that he “just didn’t remember” the shooting.
Tim Grace, Liakopoulos’ attorney, told the judge that the officers were confronted “by an armed assailant who points a gun at them and eventually fires at them.”
“We are supposed to see if the police officer’s actions were objectively reasonable,” Grace said. “We don’t use 20/20 hindsight. We don’t second-guess. We don’t slow down video like the state’s attorney’s office does.”
Medina filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against Liakopoulos and the city accusing the officer of using excessive force and battery during their interaction and falsely arresting him afterward.
Medina alleges that he and others were walking when the officers drove up in police vehicle and started questioning the group. Medina says he showed his hands and began walking away when Liakopoulos fired shots at him from the vehicle, striking him several times.
Medina was treated at a hospital for his wounds and then held for several hours at a police station, though he was never charged, according to the lawsuit, which doesn’t say how much Medina is seeking and requests a jury trial.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating the shooting and has a deadline of Sept. 22 to release materials related to the shooting, including videos, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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In Do Revenge, a deliciously dark comedy now streaming on Netflix, Maya Hawke’s Eleanor declares herself “a disciple of the ‘90s teen movie.” The same could be said for director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who tonally and visually pays homage to a number of that era’s movies in her own sophomore directorial effort.
The spiky misadventures of Eleanor and Camila Mendes’s Drea at preppy Rosehill Country Day evoke shades of Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Jawbreaker, and Cruel Intentions, among other titles. “If you put all of those things in a boiling pot and created a soup, I would hope that Do Revenge would emerge from the soup,” Robinson tells Vanity Fair during a recent Zoom. “I wanted to make a campy popcorn movie that does not live in reality. Do Revenge is a world unto itself.”
To craft an aesthetic that would appeal to varied audiences and blend Y2K sensibilities with Gen Z touchstones, complete with Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish needle drops, Robinson enlisted costume designer Alana Morshead and production designer Hillary Gurtler. “All three of us really immersed ourselves in all of these films,” she says. “We each brought something different to the table from rewatching and spending time in the worlds that we were pulling inspiration from.” In revisiting the films, Robinson says she was struck by how expertly shot they were. “As a kid, you’re experiencing something and you just love it. And that’s not to say that they weren’t always well-made,” she explains. “I feel like coming back to them as a filmmaker, I was just really taken aback about how beautiful these films are.”
Although Robinson teases that there are roughly “30 to 40 Easter eggs” scattered throughout Do Revenge for eagle-eyed watchers to find, here VF highlights homages to five classic teen movies in the new comedy.
Clueless
References to Amy Heckerling’s 1995 blockbuster are sprinkled throughout the film—from characters’ berets à la Alicia Silverstone’s Cher to Maude Latour’s cover of Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America,” which plays over Clueless's opening shots. A more obscure shoutout: Rosehill’s Horowitz Hall, an homage to Cher’s last name. And if you thought we didn’t notice the school landmark labeled J.K. Robinson Library, in honor of Do Revenge’s director and co-writer? As if!
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South Loop marijuana dispensary receives key approval
CHICAGO - The South Loop could be home to the first Black-owned marijuana dispensary.
Matt Brewer, CEO of Family Roots Dispensary, is a native South Sider, and a Harvard Business grad, who started the company, alongside his mother and brother.
The $650,000 project would create up to 50 construction jobs, and up to 45 permanent positions.
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The project still needs to pass the zoning board.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from September 16, 2022
- Judge approves temporary closure of M&M Grocery in Macon
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Man arrested in connection with robbery of north Macon Dollar Tree
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Macon Mental Health Matters offers courses to help teens deal with mental health issues
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Macon Mental Health Matters offers courses to help teens deal with mental health issues
"The biggest part is listening to him more, validating what they're feelings are and trying to be more open about what he has to say."
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— Macon Mental Health Matters is looking to change the stigma surrounding mental health. It’s doing so with a course known as “Teen Mental Health First Aid.”
MMHM is helping parents help teens struggling with mental health challenges.
The free course began Friday, for parents and leaders in the organization who work closely with teens.
One of the grandparents in attendance was Natalie Merriott. She says growing up, her family frowned upon mental health. Her goal by attending is to help reverse her idea of what mental health is.
“I honestly probably didn’t even think that it affected kids 10 years ago. But now since I’ve had the grandson at home, it’s like well this is going to affect him there’s no way around it,” said Merriott.
As the guardian of her 10-year old grandson, she says the course is helping her recognize the signs of mental health challenges and how to provide effective care for here grandson.
“The biggest part is listening to him more, validating what they’re feelings are and trying to be more open about what he has to say,” she said.
Jarvis Adside is a Pastor at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, and helped train the people in attendance. He says mental health signs can come in a variety of ways.
“Simple as a young person that’s sleeping a lot, simple as a young person that’s not taking care of themselves, what does that look like a young person that’s acting up in school, that does not want to go to school,” he said.
Adside says the course is meant to help spread awareness about mental health among children. He says it’s also a step in the right direction to tackling violence in the community.
“There’s a great deal of people who still don’t understand that mental health, mental disorders, and substance abuse is a contributing factor to a lot of the violence that we’re seeing today,” said Adside.
Merriott says the course opened her eyes to the mental health challenges the community faces. She had one message to those who frown upon mental health.
“We don’t choose to have it, but it’s something we do have and we have to learn how to deal with it, and find the right balance that works for us,” she said.
The second course is September 23. MMHM says it hopes to host the course more often.
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Middle Georgia school receives national recognition
The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Kings Chapel Elementary is one of six Georgia schools named as a 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
The award is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps.
Principal William Ray says this award is a collective community effort.
“We want to be a school that our community can be proud of, and I think this award is not just a school award but I think it’s a school community award because it’s the product of a lot of support from our school district, our parents, and our community partners,” said Ray.
Students were treated to popsicles in celebration of the national recognition.
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Museum of Aviation helping fight hunger around the world
Rise Against Hunger and Northrop Grumman partnered with the Museum of Aviation, to pack 10,000 meals to be shipped around the world.
WARNER ROBINS, Ga (41NBC/WMGT) – Rise Against Hunger and Northrop Grumman partnered with the Museum of Aviation, to pack 10,000 meals to be shipped around the world for those who struggle with hunger.
September is Hunger Action Month, and the Northrop Grumman is putting together 25 “Rise Against Hunger” events.
Over 100 volunteers packed bags of food that can feed up to a family of four. The bag is packed with rice, soy packets, dehydrated vegetables and vitamin packets.
Vice President for System Sustainment with Northrop Grumman, Scott Pfeiffer, said acts like these are a part of the company’s culture.
“I think it’s indicative of the culture within Northrop Grumman people care about their communities they care about their world and they’re proud to support these events like this where they know it’s going for a good cause”, said Pfeiffer.
Northrop Grumman looks to pack 10 million meals by 2030.
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THE END ZONE SCOREBOARD: Scores from Week 5 of high school football
Here are Middle Georgia's high school football scores from Week 5.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Here are Middle Georgia’s high school football scores from Week 5:
Games featured on The End Zone:
Northeast – 47
ACE – 21
Peach County – 7
Perry – 35
Jordan – 0
Southwest – 61
West Laurens – 0
Bleckley County – 33
Pacelli – 21
Stratford – 7
Mount de Sales – 21
Westfield – 49
***For highlights of the games featured on The End Zone, click here.***
Other scores:
Dutchtown – 14
Warner Robins – 7
Lakeside, Evans – 17
Veterans – 28
Northside – 20
North Cobb – 17
Locust Grove – 0
Jones County – 62
Pike County – 3
Howard – 14
Washington County – 43
Glenn Hills – 7
Twiggs County – 22
Hawkinsville – 58
Wilcox County – 52
Tiftarea – 28
East Laurens – 6
Johnson County – 34
Dublin – 0
Metter – 12
FPD – 28
Pinewood Christian – 34
Tattnall – 34
Mount Vernon – 35
Frederica – 13
John Milledge – 63
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: ACE welcomes Northeast in our Game of the Week
The Raiders came into the game after beating Carver last week, the #2 team in AAA. The Gryphons (4-0) were looking to remain undefeated on the season.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The ACE Gryphons hosted the Northeast Raiders in our Game of the Week Friday night.
The Raiders came into the game after beating Carver last week, the #2 team in AAA. The Gryphons (4-0) were looking to remain undefeated on the season.
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Bleckley County travels to West Laurens
The Royals (3-0) were coming off a win against the #4 team in Class A, Schley County. The Raiders (1-2) had been shut out the last two weeks by Houston County and Vidalia, respectively.
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The West Laurens Raiders hosted the Bleckley County Royals Friday night.
The Royals (3-0) were coming off a win against the #4 team in Class A, Schley County. The Raiders (1-2) had been shut out the last two weeks by Houston County and Vidalia, respectively.
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Mount de Sales visits Westfield
It was the first time these two teams had played since 2013.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Mount de Sales Cavaliers traveled to Marvin Arrington Stadium to take on the Westfield Hornets in Perry.
The Hornets (2-2) had won eight straight against Mount de Sales. The Cavaliers (2-1) were only scoring 16 points per game while giving up 21 points per game.
It was the first time these two teams had played since 2013.
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Peach County visits Perry
The Panthers (2-1) beat Veterans 37-6 last week. The Trojans (2-1) were also coming off a huge win last week, beating Jones County 35-3.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Peach County Trojans went on the road to take on the Perry Panthers in Week 5.
The Panthers (2-1) beat Veterans 37-6 last week. The Trojans (2-1) were also coming off a huge win last week, beating Jones County 35-3.
Tucker Sargent has the highlights from Herb St. John Stadium:
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Southwest hosts Jordan
The Patriots (0-3) were looking for their first win of the season. The Red Jackets (0-3) lost to ACE last week, 49-20.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Southwest Patriots welcomed the Jordan Red Jackets to Henderson Stadium Friday night.
The Patriots (0-3) were looking for their first win of the season. The Red Jackets (0-3) lost to ACE last week, 49-20.
Check out the highlights below:
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THE END ZONE HIGHLIGHTS: Stratford hosts Pacelli
The Eagles (3-0) were averaging 41 PPG and trying to remain undefeated on the season. The Vikings (3-1) shut out Mount de Sales last week 38-0.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Stratford Eagles welcomed the Pacelli Vikings from Columbus in Week 5.
The Eagles (3-0) were averaging 41 PPG and trying to remain undefeated on the season. The Vikings (3-1) shut out Mount de Sales last week 38-0.
Check out the battle of the private schools from Eagle Field:
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UPDATE: 16-year-old dies after being shot Tuesday night
A 16-year-old has died after being shot Tuesday night in the 3300 block of Hollingsworth Road.
UPDATE (9/16) : A 16-year-old has died after being shot Tuesday night in the 3300 block of Hollingsworth Road.
That’s according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release, which said Deputy Coroner Luann Stone dentified the victim as I’ming Trevon Jackson.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –The Bibb Sheriff’s Office is investigating an Aggravated Assault in the 3300 block of Hollingsworth Road just before midnight on September 13, 2022.
Deputies responded to the 3300 block of Hollingsworth Road, regarding a person shot. Upon arrival deputies found an unresponsive 16-year-old male who had been shot. He was transported to the Atrium Health Hospital where he is listed in critical condition. No one else was injured.
This incident is still under investigation, anyone with about this incident is urged to contact the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at 478-751 -7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were found near the mountain resort town of Breckenridge in 1982.
Alan Lee Phillips, 71, was arrested last year in the mountain hamlet of Dumont, west of Denver, after local, state and federal authorities using DNA evidence identified him as a suspect in the killings of Annette Schnee, 21, and Barbara “Bobbi Jo” Oberholtzer, 29.
A Park County jury in Fairplay deliberated for just five hours before convicting Phillips of eight counts late Thursday, including first-degree murder after deliberation and first-degree murder involving felony kidnapping and robbery, Rob McCallum, a spokesman for the Colorado Judicial Department, said Friday.
Phillips faces life in prison when he is sentenced at a hearing set for Nov. 7.
Local, state and federal authorities used DNA testing to help identify Phillips as a potential suspect. A miner and automobile mechanic, Phillips had lived in the area over the past four decades. He was arrested in early 2021.
Authorities said the two women, whose bodies were found in separate locations, had no connection. Both were believed to be hitchhiking outside Breckenridge, a ski resort town about 60 miles (96 kilometers) southwest of Denver, when they disappeared on Jan. 6, 1982.
Friends and family discovered Oberholtzer’s body the next day in a snow drift on the summit of 11,542-foot (3,463-meter) Hoosier Pass, near Breckenridge, one day after she disappeared. Schnee’s body was discovered six months later, fully clothed, by a boy fishing in a creek in rural Park County. Both women had been shot.
Investigators said Phillips was rescued the night that the women disappeared from the top of nearby Guanella Pass when his truck got stuck during a snowstorm, KUSA-TV reported. The victims did not know Phillips or each other.
“Bobbi Jo was a fighter and is a hero. She fought back and because of that we were able to get DNA evidence to convict Annette and Bobbi Jo’s killer after all this time,” Linda Stanley, district attorney for the 11th Judicial District, said in a statement.
“This absolutely gives hope to people,” said Deputy District Attorney Mark Hurlbert, who helped prosecute the case. "This case being so old, this (verdict) shows there’s no case that can’t be solved.”
Phillips was represented by the public defender's office, which does not comment on cases.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Maryland company announced Friday it will build a natural gas power plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon in northern West Virginia. Officials said it was made possible by a recently signed law embraced by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin that gives tax breaks for alternative energy projects.
Competitive Power Ventures of Silver Spring, Maryland, will construct the 1,800-megawatt plant in Doddridge County, a top producer of natural gas in the state. More than 1,000 union jobs will be used in the construction of the combined-cycle plant, and the natural gas used by the facility will support hundreds of additional jobs, the company said.
“CPV is pleased to work closely with West Virginia to bring this project to fruition in the coming years,” company CEO Gary Lambert said in a statement.
The company said the extensive regulatory approval process has already started for the $3 billion project and officials expect it to go into operation later this decade.
President Joe Biden signed the legislation last month that will invest $375 billion to fight climate change over the next 10 years. In addition to addressing health care costs and prescription drug prices, it will direct spending, tax credits and loans to bolster technology like solar panels, consumer efforts to improve home energy efficiency, emission-reducing equipment for coal- and gas-powered power plants, and air pollution controls for farms, ports and low-income communities.
The signed measure is a slimmed-down version of a more ambitious plan that Biden and Democrats unveiled early last year but was deemed too costly by Manchin.
“I’m pleased Competitive Power Ventures is investing in the Mountain State and look forward to seeing the benefits of this investment — including long-term, good-paying jobs and supporting our regional economies — for years to come,” Manchin said in the statement.
Some states are transitioning away from carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of a warming planet.
In late 2020, a study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found over 80% of 39 projects that have sought to commercialize carbon capture and storage ended in failure. The study cited lack of technological readiness as a top factor. Critics say carbon capture would require more energy to power the equipment, resulting in more air pollution because the technology can only catch a portion of the carbon emitted by a facility.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill earlier this year that established rules for companies using carbon sequestration.
“This is an outstanding day for West Virginia,” Justice said in the statement. “Competitive Power Ventures and the innovation they bring to the energy industry is amazing.”
CPV develops low-carbon electrical generation and conducts asset management services in the North American market. CPV is a subsidiary of Israel-based OPC Energy and was acquired in 2020.
CPV said it has combined gas and steam turbine projects in operation in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and a wind farm in western Oklahoma. Another combined-cycle facility is being built in northern Illinois, and solar power facilities are under development in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Earlier this week, Justice announced that a firm owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett has partnered with the state to buy and develop more than 2,000 acres (800 hectares) in Ravenswood for a $500 million industrial park powered by renewable energy sources.
In February, the Republican governor signed a bill eliminating the state’s 26-year-old ban on nuclear power plants.
West Virginia is the nation’s second-largest coal producer, behind Wyoming, and accounted for 5% of the nation’s total energy production in 2019, ranking fifth among the states, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But West Virginia has lost thousands of coal jobs in the past decade as companies and utilities explore using other energy sources such as natural gas, solar and wind.
In 2020, coal-fired electric power plants accounted for 88% of West Virginia’s electricity generation. Renewable energy resources, primarily hydroelectric power and wind energy, contributed almost 6% and natural gas provided more than 3%.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese consumer spending and factory output edged up in August but still were weak, official data showed Friday, and forecasters warned the second-largest economy is vulnerable to repeated shutdowns of cities to fight virus outbreaks.
Housing sales plummeted while prices edged lower, adding to a slide in real estate activity under pressure from a government campaign to control surging corporate debt that set off an economic slump in mid-2021.
“China’s economy held up slightly better than anticipated last month, but momentum still weakened,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics in a report. “September is shaping up to be even worse.”
Chinese leaders are trying to prop up economic growth that sank to 2.5% over a year earlier in the first six months of 2022, less than half the official 5.5% target, without big stimulus spending that might push up debt and housing costs.
Economists say this year’s Chinese economic growth might come in below 3%, less than half of last year’s 8.1%. The ruling Communist Party has stopped talking about being able to meet its 5.5% target.
Retail sales, one of China’s most important economic engines, rose 5.4% in August over a year earlier, double the previous month’s 2.7% growth, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That beat forecasts of 3.3%.
Factory output grew by 4.2%, up from July’s 3.8% but still weak by Chinese standards. Investment in factories, real estate and other fixed assets edged up to 5.8% from the previous month’s 5.7%.
China’s rebound from the pandemic was disrupted by anti-virus measures that shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers starting in March. Those restrictions have eased but controls have been temporarily reimposed on the southern business center of Shenzhen and other cities to control outbreaks.
The economy “remains at risk from future lockdowns,” said Robert Carnell of ING in a report.
The ruling party is sticking with a “zero COVID” strategy that calls for keeping the disease out of China by isolating every case. Officials have responded to complaints about the rising economic cost and social disruption by warning that lifting controls will lead to outbreaks that will be more expensive and destructive.
Housing sales fell 30.3% from a year earlier, reflecting disruption as builders cope with tighter limits on their use of debt. Many buyers appear to be reluctant to spend after thousands of apartments that already were paid for were left unfinished, forcing local authorities in some areas to step in and try to complete them.
Prices paid for new homes declined 0.3% from July.
“As a major pool of Chinese household wealth, this won’t help encourage spending,” said Carnell. “These numbers are likely to remain a blot on the economic landscape for quite a while.”
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Ugly, beaten down and bloody; hidden and lonely; sick and perverse, all around at his worst: This is where we find Oliver Sim as he opens Hideous Bastard. Over a serpentine bassline and big, weepy violins, Sim lances the infected wound of his self-esteem, asking over and over, "Am I hideous?" He doesn't get an answer, but he does come to a realization: "Radical honesty might set me free if it makes me hideous." Herein lies the central conceit of his debut solo album, that we may reclaim power for ourselves by embracing what makes us monstrous.
Sim is far from the first artist to turn to horror imagery to reckon with queerness; populated with unloved experiments and villainous boundary transgressors, horror has always contained an allegory for the queer experience. From the ostracization for same-sex intimacy in Carmilla, one of the earliest works of fiction about vampires, to the denial and disbelief in the supernatural that seals the protagonist's fate in the ghost story of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or the gender dysphoria of serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, queer horror fans have long seen themselves in parts of these stories.
More and more often lately, modern horror is explicitly centering queerness in shows like The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and What We Do In The Shadows and films like It: Chapter Two and Bodies Bodies Bodies. In the music world, Hideous Bastards joins recent releases like Rina Sawayama's "This Hell" and the music video for Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" that say: "If you can't join 'em in heaven, it's time to reclaim hell." Across 10 tracks, Hideous Bastard utilizes the sonic and narrative hallmarks of horror to interrogate Sim's own relationship to his sexuality and the visage he presents to the world, while — like the best of that genre — side-stepping easily packaged resolutions.
Maybe it's that iconic debut album cover, black with a bold white "x" in the middle, maybe it's the monochromatic wardrobe or the nighttime moodiness of the music, but members of The xx have always seemed at home in darkness. In the airy arrangements of the band's music, Oliver Sim anchored wispy musings on the cliff's edge of love and loss, spun alongside bandmate Romy Madley Croft and Jamie xx, with fluid bass playing and his plaintive baritone.
With room to move on his solo debut, Sim hones in on that darkness and the storytelling possibilities of the low end. A growling, pitch-shifted bass vocal adds harmonies to half the album's songs, lending menace and mixed feelings to lovelorn recollections ("Romance With A Memory," "Never Here," "GMT") and mocking weight to crises of confidence ("Unreliable Narrator" and "Confident Man").
It's a focus befitting the album's monstrous theme. Our villains often sing to us in trembling depths of pitch, from opera (Don Pizarro from Fidelio), to musical theater (Javert from Les Misérables, Hades from Hadestown), and Disney movies, too (Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Even outside a musical context, horror films have long utilized distorted bass effects and vocal doubling to convey that otherworldly evil is in the room, that ordinary characters are talking in its voice. On Hideous Bastard, that subterranean sound allows Sim to take on the voice of the villain, as he grapples with identity, shame and expectations of masculinity.
On "Unreliable Narrator" in particular, the only song in which this monstrous bass harmony backs every line, Sim sings about modulating his voice in an attempt to fit a certain perception of manliness, losing himself in a facade even as he "tried hard to be authentic." A horror and psychological thriller buff, Sim says the song is an intentional mid-point in the album — just as those films often destabilize viewers' expectations of who the protagonist can trust part way through the runtime, Sim here encourages the listener to consider if he himself is wearing a mask.
Similarly on "Never Here," a personal reflection on how we distort our own memories by choosing what we capture and preserve, Sim wonders if he exists at all when his feelings of insecurity contradict the evidence. "Pictures fade, technology breaks / I know the moment don't exist within its color and shape," he sings over an eerie, arpeggiated synth line reminiscent of The Twilight Zone's theme. As the song spirals into breakdown, Sim backs up from the mic and screams "I was never really here" again and again, much like a man hoping to be proved wrong. It's a bite-sized example of what can happen when collective queer history is erased: the demise of the individual queer self sometimes seems inevitable; doubly so when you feel greater kinship with the evil witches, serial killers and disfigured monsters of film, who inevitably meet a gruesome end, than with any traditional hero.
Sim doesn't just sing like a villain on Hideous Bastard; he also takes inspiration from several in particular. He says "Unreliable Narrator" was inspired by Patrick Bateman's monologue in the 2000 film American Psycho, in which Bateman coldly confesses that there is simply no one there under his elaborately constructed persona. Later, on Hideous Bastard's closing number, "Run The Credits," he sings, "Disney princes, my god, I hate them / I'm Buffalo Bill, I'm Patrick Bateman."
"Those characters were the ones who were being cast away for being hideous in some way," he said in an interview with the podcast Midnight Chats. Like many queer horror fans, Sim says he saw himself in those villains who face hostility from society, identifying with "a repressed queerness" he saw in them. Sim's interest has a historical precedent: The monsters of fiction have long been caricatures of societal fears, and several of Gothic literature's famous authors grappled with the taboo of homosexuality — sometimes their own — in their work. Bram Stoker used the hateful fervor around Oscar Wilde's homosexuality trial as inspiration for Dracula, and the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is called "More hideous than belongs to humanity" by the doctor who created him, rejected by the person who is by all intents his parent.
It's the latter that Sim takes clearest aesthetic inspiration from in Hideous, the short film that accompanies the album. In it, Sim plays an artist who, after coming out on live television and performing the undeniably celebratory "Fruit" with sensual self-possession, transforms into a clawed, horned and green-skinned monster to exact violence on the production crew that mocks him. If an ignorance of queer history can make a person feel doomed by their narrative, then by regaining our history and re-centering it — as Sim does in both the film and the album by stepping into a monstrous persona — we can finally begin to reclaim agency over our own lives.
Shame's journey is never over, and it isn't linear, but it's not without moments of reprieve. There's a playfulness in Sim's work, too, connecting to queer horror's habit of having fun with absurdity, referencing The Twilight Zone, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the hopeful ending of the film and throughout the album, Sim weaves a lighter narrative using the voice of Bronski Beat's Jimmy Somerville. The collaboration was the result of Sim's real-life desire to seek guidance from a queer elder before publicizing his HIV-positive status; throughout the record, Somerville's countertenor floats through moments of uncertainty, bolstering Sim when, like every villain, he falters in a song's third act. It's Somerville who encourages Sim to "be brave, have trust" and "be willing to be loved" on the opening track, after which "Am I hideous?" becomes a defiant rhetorical question instead of a self-effacement. Somerville emerges from the spectral mist of "Confident Man" as Sim's chanting of the chorus begins to feel frenzied; his voice is a reminder of what further possibilities exist in direct contrast to the toxic ideas symbolized in the bass vocal, which never reappears by itself to torment Sim after this song.
History may erase, society may discriminate, the self may succumb to shame. When others accuse you of dancing with the devil, Hideous Bastard argues — like decades of queer-interpreted horror before it — you can show them how he really moves. But though there is liberation in revelry and taking ownership of villainy, masks are meant to come off. A queer figure alone in a conformity-obsessed society can be a tragic one; when you live like that, it's easy to internalize that tenderness is not available to you. But care and community are instrumental to survival. If there is power in reclaiming monstrosity, Hideous Bastard posits that there is also power in reaching out our hands — be they clawed, scarred or deformed — for kindness, and receiving it in turn.
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