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Seven Oaks denied COVID-19 funds from health department after violating health order
Seven Oaks Classical School will not receive COVID-19 grant money from the Monroe County Health Department after refusing to comply with the county’s previous emergency health order.
The county commissioners met Wednesday and did not consider the school's request for grant funds. This decision came at the recommendation of the Monroe County Health Department.
The health department received $440,000 in December 2021 to help local schools pay for expenses related to COVID-19. The federal funds pass through the Indiana Department of Health to the county health department.
The money doesn’t have to be used for anything in particular, said Monroe County Health Department administrator Penny Caudill, as long as it relates to recovering from the pandemic.
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Schools applying for the grant must meet a set of deliverables and attest to being in compliance with local, state and federal regulations during the grant cycle, which began in July 2021 and will end in June 2022.
Along with submitting a letter of interest and memorandum of agreement, Seven Oaks attested it has been in compliance with regulations. This is not true, Caudill said.
“We just don’t have actions that demonstrated that they had come into compliance,” she said in an interview with The Herald-Times.
In August 2021, the county health department issued Seven Oaks a citation and $250 fine, accusing the school of violating the county health order, which required face masks to be worn in indoor public spaces. Caudill issued the ticket after seeing very few masks being worn at the school.
The health department also received additional complaints about the school this winter, Caudill said. The county health order ended in March.
The commissioners did not vote on the request. Their approval is required for the school to receive the grant money.
Seven Oaks headmaster Stephen Shipp emailed the following in response to the commissioners' decision:
"The Indiana Department of Health means for the Co-Ag Public Health Crisis Response Grant to support all Indiana K-12 schools, including Seven Oaks Classical School. As an independent public charter school, we are proud of the tireless efforts by our faculty and staff to care for our school community and protect against infectious diseases, and we are surprised that the county commissioners would place obstacles in the way of any local school receiving IDOH funds intended to support those efforts."
Seven Oaks’ history of noncompliance
The county commissioners voted in August 2021 to require all people in the county, regardless of vaccination status, to wear a face covering while indoors in a public space, including schools.
When school started about a week later, Seven Oaks was the only K-12 school in the county to not require masks.
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The school passed a resolution in June 2021 establishing COVID-19 guidelines for the 2021-22 school year. It stated the school would operate in a “normal” fashion, which meant teachers, staff and students would not be required to wear masks at school.
After observing few masks being worn at the school at the start of the 2021-22 school year, Caudill issued the violation ticket to the school.
The school subsequently appealed. Shipp told the commissioners the health order did not apply to schools and enforcing the order could hurt students with disabilities.
Ultimately, the commissioners waived the $250 fine but denied the appeal.
Lawsuit between school and county commissioners, county health department continues
The commissioners’ hearing with Shipp was Sept. 20, 2021, but they didn’t make a ruling. Three days later, they waived the fine but denied the appeal.
In response, Seven Oaks filed a lawsuit accusing the commissioners and the health department of violating Indiana’s Open Door Law. The school is seeking to recoup its attorney fees, court costs and litigation expenses in the lawsuit.
The defendants — the commissioners and the health department — filed a motion for partial summary judgment on Dec. 7, 2021. Since then, Seven Oaks has made four motions for enlargement of time, pushing back the date in which the school has to respond to the defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment.
On April 13, the commissioners and county health department filed an objection to a fourth enlargement of time. In each motion, attorney Carl Lamb, who is representing the school and is running as a Republican for an open judge seat, has told the court he is busy and needs more time to conduct depositions.
Other schools to receive grant money
When President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established a cooperative agreement for emergency response to spread COVID-19 relief funds across the country. The Monroe County Health Department received $440,000 of those funds to distribute to local schools.
No formal applications have been submitted, but schools were recently asked to submit letters of interest to the health department if they wanted to receive funds. So far, at least half a dozen schools have submitted letters, Caudill said.
The letters will help the health department determine how many schools will likely share the funds. If a school has fewer than 50 students and qualifies for a grant, it will receive a minimum of $5,000. Any school with more than 50 students will receive a minimum of $10,000.
“The larger the school, obviously, the bigger portion they’re going to get,” Caudill said. “But we wanted to ensure any school that participated got enough money that it was worth doing.”
Although the funds must be used for COVID-19-related costs, schools will be fairly free to spend the money however they see fit, Caudill said.
“They’ve got some leeway in terms of how they use them,” she said. “It’s not, ‘You can do this, this or this, and that’s all.’”
Funds can be used for direct COVID-19 relief purposes, such as PPE and cleaning supplies, but can also be used for purposes such as e-learning technology.
Schools will have to get their grant requests approved by their respective school boards, so there is no hard deadline on when schools can submit applications, Caudill said.
Contact Christine Stephenson at cstephenson@heraldt.com.
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For veterans: VA adds 9 respiratory cancers to list of service-related illnesses
In last month's column I wrote that the Veterans Administration was considering adding some respiratory cancers to the presumptive list for Gulf War veterans. On April 25, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it is adding nine rare respiratory cancers to presumed service-connected disabilities due to military environmental exposures to fine particulate matter. This is a significant victory for Gulf War veterans!
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The VA will begin processing disability compensation claims for Veterans who served any amount of time in the Southwest Asia theater of operations beginning Aug. 2, 1990, to the present, or Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Syria or Djibouti from Sept. 19, 2001, to the present. VA determined a plausible link between airborne hazards and certain cancers of the respiratory tract.
Any veteran who has or had one of the listed cancers at any time during or after separation from military service may be eligible for disability compensation benefits. VA will contact impacted veterans and survivors to inform them about their eligibility and will provide information on how to apply
The following list of rare respiratory cancers have been added to the presumptive list:
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx.
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the trachea.
- Adenocarcinoma of the trachea.
- Salivary gland-type tumors of the trachea.
- Adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung.
- Large cell carcinoma of the lung.
- Salivary gland-type tumors of the lung.
- Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung.
- Typical and atypical carcinoid of the lung.
More:For veterans: Help for veterans in crisis just a call, text or chat away
If you are a Monroe County, Indiana resident and need assistance filing a VA disability claim or if you have questions about federal, state or local veterans benefits, please reach out to my office: Steven Miller, Monroe County veteran service officer, 812-349-2537, smiller@co.monroe.in.us.
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Get ready to sit back and relax on the Bryant Park lawn as Picnic Performances return this summer for a series of free live music, dance and theater events.
Presented by Bank of America, the lineup consists of over 20 shows, each starting at 7:00 p.m., and kicks off May 27 with "The Barber of Seville," a musical performance by the New York City Opera.
"'The People's Opera' is thrilled to be back in our summer home at Bryant Park, where we can continue our mission of free performances for New York audiences," Michael Capasso, General Director of New York City Opera, told NBC New York.
The schedule currently runs from mid-May to mid-September. Besides the New York City Opera, other participating organizations include Carnegie Hall, American Symphony Orchestra, Asian American Arts Alliance and Classical Theatre of Harlem.
Outdoor performances are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, with no tickets required. While guests may bring their own food and drink, on-site options will be available near the lawn for a rotating selection of NYC vendors.
"Seeing the emotional response that audiences have had to the return of live performances over the past year has been deeply moving to all of us at the Hall. Music and culture are the heart and soul of New York City, and we are excited to be a part of bringing everyone together to enjoy it,” Clive Gillinson, Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, said to News 4.
Bryant Park celebrates its 30th anniversary this year since its reopening and extensive redesign in 1992. This summer series incorporates a variety of genres, such as broadway, Afro-Latin jazz, electronica, soul and more.
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Season highlights also feature the annual LGBTQ+ Pride in the Park concert, Emerging Music Festival and the first-ever open rehearsal residencies with dance companies Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet and Athomasproject.
“Thanks to Bank of America’s commitment, Picnic Performances brings world-class music, theater, and dance to more than a quarter of a million people each summer – both in-person on the lawn and through the livestreams,” said Bryant Park Corporation's President, Dan Biederman.
Free picnic blankets will be available for audience members to borrow during the occasions. Performances can also be watched on the park's social media channels via livestream.
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A woman tried running for safety on a New York City street Sunday, only to be punched to the ground by her attacker -- a man police are still trying to track down.
Video released by police shows the daylight attack in Chelsea when the 68-year-old Asian woman fled from the man chasing her through the intersection of 9th Avenue and West 19th Street.
Police said the unidentified suspect threw a punch to her torso that knocked the woman down. She suffered bruised ribs and back pain.
The department released video of the assault and additional surveillance images of the man in hopes of tracking down his whereabouts.
A motive behind the attack and what events pre-dated the 9 a.m. assault were not immediately known. The investigation is ongoing.
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BANKS, Ore. — Firefighters successfully rescued two people on Saturday morning after their truck rolled down a steep embankment in a remote area northwest of Banks.
According to Banks Fire District 13, dispatch received a 911 call just before 5 a.m. from a caller who said they'd gone off the road and down a hill. However, first responders did not have more than an approximate location.
Banks firefighters worked with staff from the Washington County Sheriff's Office and Metro West Ambulance to scour the area southwest of Timber, using sirens in short blasts and listening for the caller's horn honking in reply.
The steep, heavily wooded terrain hampered search efforts, as did spotty phone service. Banks Fire said that they were able to ping the caller's phone, to an extent.
"Neither of the phones were able to hit more than one tower which is necessary to give a good triangulation," said Scott Adams, public information officer for Banks Fire. "The best location we had from the phones was what tower they were hitting, and in the coast range that can be very misleading."
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About two hours after the initial call, rescuers came across a hiker who was able to tell them the location of the crash.
Search crews finally found the truck and contacted the two people within. One had managed to get out of the vehicle, but another was trapped inside. That necessitated a high-angle rope rescue, fire officials said.
Rescuers successfully got both people free and up to the road. One was taken to the hospital by Life Flight in serious condition.
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SNEEDVILLE, Tenn. — In the small town of Sneedville and in an even smaller cabin, global missionary Joe Hurston prepares for his third trip to Ukraine.
His mission is to supply thirsty people with clean drinking water using ozone-UV water purifiers.
The 71-year-old appreciates a quaint and quiet life in the hills of Hancock County, but lately, the serene sounds of his small town are shattered by his memory of the war in Ukraine.
“They have hit hospitals and they have hit orphanages,” Hurston said.
The president and founder of Air Mobile Ministries has already gone to Ukraine twice in 2022, and with the unbearable weight of pain and suffering on his mind, he's going back a third time on May 10.
Huston will bring 10 water purifying units with him, equipped with ozone and UV technology.
"It's about 35,000 times more powerful than chlorine,” he said. "40 to 50 people per hour can get clean water on less electricity than a lightbulb."
Hurston’s quant cabin serves as his headquarters for Air Mobile Ministries where he builds his purifiers and plans his missions.
Joe has been going on global missions for at least 30 years.
“My mission with this remarkable miracle machine is to bring clean water to the thirsty people,” he said. “That's what the Lord would have me to do.”
Hurston plans to put his paradise on hold in exchange for peace of mind, providing humanitarian support to the Ukrainian people.
“I could not sit here at my little retreat cabin and sit on my front porch, watch my little animals, and watch our garden grow and not do something,” the 71-year-old said. “I leave Vladimir Putin in the hands of God.”
Hurston has over 1,500 purifying units in 48 countries.
He said he will continue missions as long as his body allows.
If you would like to contribute to Hurston’s mission, visit his donation link.
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SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. — Just two days after a search warrant shed light on the full scale of conditions at the home on Trout Run Road, flames broke out there.
"There were so many animals inside the house," said Dave Briggs, Union Township Supervisor, of the Thursday he and officials from several agencies began bringing out the animals.
"We were packed to the gills with all the transporters ... some of those animals now are having problems, they're ill," said Dana Mansell, Hillside SPCA Humane Officer based in Pottsville.
The fire started where more than 100 animals have now been confiscated in Zion Grove, which is in Union Township, near Ringtown. As of now, officials say the animals removed include 32 dogs as well as cats, goats, pigs, and horses.
"Even a turtle, we found in there," said Briggs.
The Department of Agriculture had been quarantining chickens and ducks there for fear of avian flu. The birds were cleared that morning.
"Thank God that nobody got hurt and that it wasn't like the house didn't burn down or anything like that," said Dave Grady, the owners' next-door neighbor.
Grady, who can see a good amount of the neighbors' mess from his yard, says the couple meant well.
"They're actually very nice people. I've known them a long time; I'm here over 27 years. They really did care about the animals, I know," he said.
But he admits the clutter was out of control.
"My insurance company was afraid of a fire hazard. And with pine trees like that, you can't have that."
Saturday's fire seemed to prove that right.
"With the way the leaves are and stuff now, I mean, there's always a potential," said Officer Phillip Beaver, Union Township Police Dept.
But neighbor Patricia Lombardi, who lives five miles down the road and came to help out after learning of the situation, says the owners were overwhelmed, trying to rescue animals.
"They're begging for help from people," she said. "Nobody helped."
Officials say the couple had started a controlled pit fire that morning to burn some of the trash.
"It was a fire that went from a fire pit and spread quickly. There were propane tanks up there that were exploding and stuff," said Officer Phillip Beaver.
Officials say the fire was contained to storage sheds on the property:
"With all that material leaning against it, the cardboard boxes -- with all that food, it just took off," said Briggs.
Multiple fire units from multiple jurisdictions showed up.
"They did an amazing job yesterday, keeping it contained to where it was. With the high winds and stuff that were here," said Ofc. Beaver.
Officials say to the best of their knowledge, all humans and animals made it out safely except for two rats.
Patricia Lombardi says she and one of the owners were able to get some of the remaining animals still on the property away from the fire.
"We both went running into a fire to catch ducks. She said, 'I'm not letting my animals die this way,'" said Lombardi.
Officials won't say at this time whether there will be any charges, as the investigation is still open.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — Southeast Texans filled the seats of the Jefferson Theatre Saturday to see the grand debut of the theatre's historic and newly repaired pipe organ.
After more than a decade, the sounds of the newly repaired Robert Mortan Pipe Organ onc again filled the theatre.
"It’s a really unique experience to hear the organ played," Emily Wheeler, director of event services for the City of Beaumont, said. "It was built for the theatre."
City officials are excited for the community to once again have the "magical and unique opportunity" to hear the Jefferson Theatre's pipe organ in action.
“I think it's fantastic," Wheeler said. "People are walking in very excited to hear the organ again. There’s alot of people here who are telling us they have not heard the organ played in decades."
Expectations were running high and those in attendance said they were excited to see it and were not left disappointed.
"Oh, it blew my expectations away," Chris Orta, Jefferson Theatre attendee said. "I had seen the silent film before but not live with an actual organ being played. I was wowed beyond belief."
"It feels fabulous. We've been waiting a long, long time," Rusty Hall, Jefferson Theatre attendee said. "Been waiting for years for this day. It's very historical."
The instrument was damaged in 2005 by Hurricane Rita, and repairs for the organ were set back in 2017 due to Tropical Storm Harvey. The damage done to it was described as, "just heartbreaking."
"I understand it's been dead for the last 15 plus years," Jim Crane, Jefferson Theatre attendee, said. "Getting to see it come back to life, and getting to hear it for the first time tonight at the Jefferson will be really impressive."
The organ was handmade by the Robert Morton Organ Company in California and shipped through the Panama Canal to Beaumont in 1927. There was a grand entrance for the instrument's grand comeback.
"Oh, way above my expectations, raising up the organ," David Rich, Jefferson Theatre attendee, said. "The organ actually raises out of the pit while he plays. That was really awesome."
Tom Helms performed the score for the 1925 silent film, The Phantom of the Opera. Helms was also the man chosen for the job of restoring the instrument.
"Leaky roof or whatever caused the ceiling to fall and crush the organ, and then parts were missing or whatever, but we've got it all restored now and it's shiny and clean and new upstairs in the pipes," Helms said.
Helms spent six months repairing the beloved organ and got to be the man behind the console on Sunday.
"It's like your own child," Helms said. "You invest so much in them, and you get to play them for people who have never experienced them. It's a thrill to share."
The heart of the theatre is beating once more.
"I think it’s a signature piece here, and I think that people associate the theatre with the organ and vice versa," Wheeler said. "So, bringing it back is just one critical piece to the success of the theatre and kind of helps makes it the crown jewel of downtown."
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WASHINGTON — A scary moment for many people brought out some of the bravest heroes we see every day in D.C.
Metro took the time to thank their employees for their courageous response to the Van Ness shooting last week in a heartwarming post.
The post comes after a gunman opened fire near the University of District of Columbia (UDC) campus and Edmund Burke School in D.C., injuring three adults and a 12-year-old girl.
Several schools, businesses, and apartment buildings were asked to evacuate and shelter in place during the frightening moment.
"We are incredibly grateful for your quick thinking and on-the-ground operations that helped keep our community safe. While operating a bus on city streets is a complex task, you went above and beyond and we're thankful for your resolve in the face of danger," the post read.
The bus operators who helped assist during the incident were:
- James Mack
- Yoma Getamesay
- Timothy Harrell
- Tuana Boyd-Railey
The transit field supervisors include:
- Gary Davis
- Haywood McNeil
- Amit Tonse
- Jane Jackson
- Gloria Brown
Metro says these individuals played a key role by quickly evacuating people in the Metrobus vehicles and driving them away from the scene to safety.
Metro made additional honorable mentions in their post. One of the organizations included Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD), who offered their assistance to the local and federal law enforcement on the scene.
Both Bus Operations Control Center and Rail Control Center were thanked by Metro for tracking the events in real-time and keeping the bus and rail service running as smoothly as possible despite street closure and other impacts.
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SAN DIEGO — A new set of rules for scooters and other ride share devices is being considered by the San Diego City Council. They would change the way scooter companies operate within the city.
“I think finally we have a set of proposed regulations and an approach that will be an improvement, or could be an improvement, over what we’ve had in the past,” said Jonathan Freeman, founder of the citizen’s group ‘Safe Walkways.’
The city’s Active Transportation & Infrastructure Committee approved the comprehensive proposal last Wednesday. The next stop will be full city council.
So what’s in these new rules?
First off, they’d be switching to a new system. The old one allowed any ride share company to operate if they paid for a permit. The new system would only allow a select few companies to have exclusive operating agreements with the city. It would also place a cap on the total number of scooters allowed.
“No more than 8,000 scooters will be deployed at any given time and no more than 4 operators,” said Alyssa Muto, Director of the City’s Sustainability & Mobility Department.
According to the City’s own data, about 6,000 to 7,000 ride share devices are deployed across the city on any given day, falling within that cap of 8,000.
But the new rules do propose cracking down on parking and staging on sidewalks. It would require all scooters be left in the city-designated corrals, which are those white rectangles painted on the ground.
“By making it one specific rule of parking in a corral, it’ll make it much more predictable and user-friendly for the users in San Diego,” said Muto.
One rider CBS 8 spoke to in Pacific Beach agreed.
“Parking them on the street or having designated areas for scooters to be parked, I think that’s great,” said Patrick Koetting. “You definitely don’t want them on the sidewalk, and the thing that bugs me is when people ride them on the sidewalks.”
The new rules would give companies one hour to respond after being notified that their scooters are parked on the sidewalk, and if they don’t take care of it, the scooters could be impounded with companies also paying a fine. Jonathan Freeman from the citizen’s group ‘Safe Walkways’ wants to see the city back up these new rules with some real enforcement.
“Without the city putting resources behind education, monitoring and enforcement, the rules themselves will be meaningless,” said Freeman. “We’re not anti-scooter. We’re pro-pedestrian safety.”
The new rules will likely go before the full city council sometime this month, and they may also need a green light from the California Coastal Commission.
WATCH: San Diego looking to downsize number of scooter companies in operation city-wide (May 2021).
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — A ticket with all six numbers in Saturday evening's SuperLotto Plus drawing was sold at a 7-Eleven store in San Diego and its purchaser has 60 days to choose between receiving the $38 million jackpot in 30 graduated installments or a lump sum cash payment.
The 7-Eleven where the ticket with all six SuperLotto Plus numbers was sold is located at 430 Spruce St., in Hillcrest.
Two tickets each with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold at a convenience store in San Jose and a market in Gardena, the California Lottery announced. They are each worth $21,265.
The numbers drawn Saturday night were 3, 15, 21, 35, 46 and the Mega number was 18. The jackpot was $38 million.
The drawing was the 32nd since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 41,416,353, according to the California Lottery.
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The DreamWorks animated heist movie “The Bad Guys” was the top film in U.S. and Canada theaters for the second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while the latest Liam Neeson thriller suggested the actor’s particular set of skills may be wearing thin with audiences.
“The Bad Guys,” distributed by Universal Pictures, made $16.1 million in ticket sales in its second weekend, holding well with only a 33% drop from last weekend. The film, adapted from Aaron Blabey’s kids’ graphic novel, has helped reignite family moviegoing.
April moviegoing was largely dominated by Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” — which stayed in second place with $11.4 million, bringing its cumulative total to $160.9 million — and “The Bad Guys,” with $44.4 million in two weeks.
The latest Neeson thriller, “Memory,”however, was mostly forgotten by moviegoers. The Open Road-Briarcliffe Entertainment R-rated release launched with an estimated $3.1 million in 2,555 locations. That’s much in line with the last few films staring Neeson. In the past two years, “Blacklight” (a $3.5 million debut), “Honest Thief” ($4.1 million) and “The Marksman” ($3.1 million) all opened similarly.
The last Neeson thriller to make a dent was 2019’s “Cold Pursuit,” which debuted with $11 million and ultimately grossed $62.6 million worldwide. But either due to oversaturation or lackluster reception (“Memory” has a 30% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes”), a once dependable box-office force has gone cold.
“Neeson’s pre-pandemic crime pics did well, including the successful ‘Taken’ series, but audiences are showing little interest now,” David A. Gross, who runs the movie consultancy FranchiseRe, wrote in a newsletter. “Moviegoing activity is improving, but ‘Memory,’ as well as ‘Blacklight’ and ‘The Marksman,’ are hitting a wall.”
The eighth-place “Memory” was the only new wide release on a quiet weekend in theaters ahead of the Friday release of Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” The Walt Disney Co. release will effectively kick off Hollywood’s summer season, one the industry is hoping will approach pre-pandemic levels.
Studios last week trumpeted their summer slates at the industry convention CinemaCon, raising expectations for big-budget films like “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Jurassic World Dominion.”
The brightest spot in theaters currently continues to be “Everything Everywhere all at Once,” which dropped just 2% in its sixth week of release with $5.5 million. The film, an existential metaverse action comedy starring Michelle Yeoh, has had unusually long legs in theaters, and with $35.5 million in sales so far, ranks as one of indie studio A24’s biggest hits.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “The Bad Guys,” $16.1 million.
2. “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” $11.4 million.
3. “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” $8.3 million.
4. “The Northman,” $6.3 million.
5. “Everything Everywhere all at Once,” $5.5 million.
6. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” $3.9 million.
7. “The Lost City,” $3.9 million.
8. “Memory,” $3.1 million.
9. “Father Stu,” $2.2 million.
10. “Morbius,” $1.5 million.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Well, hello first Monday in May.
The year’s biggest night in fashion, the Met Gala, returns to its usual berth on the social calendar this year after pandemic upheaval. And if it feels like one of those what, already moments, it is.
It’s been just under eight months since the last gala, anannual fundraiser that raises eight-figure sumsfor the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Pre-pandemic, about 600 A-listers from fashion, sports, music, film, TV, technology and beyond were invited. This year and last, the numbers were closer to 400. The 2020 gala was canceled.
More than $16.4 million was raised last year. The starry event is the institute’s primary budget feeder.
This year’s gala coincides with the opening of the second part of a two-part exhibit at the Costume Institutefocused on American fashion and style. The evening’s dress code is gilded glamour and white tie, a la the Gilded Age, that tumultuous period between the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century known for its robber barons, drama and grandeur.
This year’s walk up the Grand Staircase at the Met returns the gala to its legendary berth on the first Monday in May, with the official livestream appearing on Vogue’s website.
Vogue’s Anna Wintour has run the gala since 1995. She continues as one of the night’s honorary co-chairs, along with designer Tom Ford and Instagram’s Adam Mosseri. The official co-chairs for 2022 are Regina King, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The cost for a seat at last year’s Met Gala started at $35,000, though some attend for free. Celebrities are sometimes accompanied (and their tabs paid) by the designers who dress them or other companies that invite them. A focus on inclusivity in fashion this year may celebrate and include more unsung designer heroes than usual.
The event is the invention of the late Eleanor Lambert, a fashion publicist as powerful as Wintour in her day. In 1948, she needed to come up with a way to pay for the newly formed Costume Institute, the only department at the Met that must raise its own funds.
While many on Wintour’s carefully tended guest list follow the dress code, others go their own way. Interpretation is everything. Think Rihanna in a papal hat, Billy Porter as a sun god carried on a litter by shirtless men andLady Gaga peeling off layers as the fashion world came to a standstill to watch.
The gala also serves as a twisted time capsule of love gone wrong for celebrity couples who didn’t make it. Kim Kardashian and Ye, the former Kanye West, first attended in 2013. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes went in 2008. Jennifer Lopez attended with Marc Anthony in 2011, then with Alex Rodriguez in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Ben Affleck joined her inside last year after she walked alone.
Charlize Theron and Sean Penn were among the “it” couples invited in 2014. Selena Gomez and The Weeknd showed up together in 2017.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Sandy Mayor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Stan Pulliam says he was attacked during a campaign event in downtown Portland over the weekend.
Video provided by his campaign shows a group in all black show up to his event at Chapman Square in downtown on Saturday.
According to Pulliam, the group threw flash bangs, eggs, feces and paint at the rally.
He issued a statement following the incident saying “Portland doesn’t belong to Antifa.” Pulliam further claimed Portlanders are tired of homelessness and lawlessness.
In another statement, he listed a series of actions his administration will take to end Antifa in Portland, which included tripling the size of Oregon State Police, deputizing part of the state police as U.S. marshals, along with deploying National Guard members during riots.
Pulliam said this served as “a sign of the slow decay that has taken hold of our state and once beautiful city of Portland.”
KOIN 6 News has reached out to Portland police for more on the incident.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and one of the best gifts you can give your mom is a break from the kitchen!
Kohr Harlan is getting some homemade cooking inspiration from a Portland butcher shop — Phil’s Meat Market and Delicatessen on NW 23rd Place.
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Lincoln's white-hot real estate market has shrugged off every challenge that's come along, be it surging prices or a lack of homes for sale.
Even mortgage rates that are at their highest levels in more than a decade, potentially adding hundreds of dollars to monthly payments, are having little to no effect, at least for now.
Through the end of March, sales of existing homes are up more than 10% compared with the same period in 2021.
"The March numbers are still very strong for existing homes," said Kyle Fischer, executive vice president of the Lincoln Realtors Association. "Listings are up, pending sales are up and closed sales are up."
Sales of new homes are doing even better, up more than 35% from a year ago.
That is in contrast to what's happening nationally. The National Association of Realtors reported recently that existing-home sales dropped in March to their lowest pace in two years, while sales of new homes were at their lowest pace in four months.
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Lawrence Yun, the group's economist, said he believes sales could fall 10% nationally this year.
At least one local economist agrees that interest rates could have a chilling effect on home sales.
“Rising interest rates will reduce demand for housing in the coming months,” Eric Thompson, director of the Bureau of Business Research, said recently.
Another potential effect of rising mortgage rates is declining home prices.
Most people buying homes need to get a mortgage, meaning the decision on what they can afford is based more on the monthly payment than the actual price of a house.
When interest rates go up, they make the same house more expensive.
For example, the average rate on a 30-year mortgage at the start of the year was 3.2%. For a $200,000 loan at that rate, the monthly principal and interest payment would be approximately $865. By last week, the average 30-year rate had risen to 5.1%, which adds about $220 a month to the payment for that same $200,000 loan.
Rich Rodenburg with Coldwell Banker NHS Real Estate said he has seen some potential buyers scale back their price range because of higher rates.
But the possibility of declining prices remains a theoretical at this point, at least in Lincoln.
So far this year, prices are up compared with last year -- 11% for existing homes and nearly 20% for new homes.
Ben Barrett, a branch manager for Belay Bank Mortgage, said he doesn't see the current trajectory, where buyers are often making offers well over asking price, as sustainable.
"But there is a lot of underlying strength to the real estate market that will prevent a collapse in home prices," he said in an email.
Barrett said there are a number of factors that will keep the market from experiencing a crash similar to what happened in the mid-2000s, including buyers who are in better financial shape and tougher mortgage underwriting.
Freddie Mac, a quasi-governmental entity that buys mortgages on the secondary market, believes there will be very little change in the market for mortgages to purchase homes.
In a recent quarterly forecast, it predicted home purchase mortgage originations will grow from $1.9 trillion last year to $2.1 trillion this year, and to $2.2 trillion in 2023.
But the forecast is not good for the refinance market.
In the same forecast, Freddie Mac predicts refinance mortgage originations will drop by two-thirds, from $2.8 trillion last year to $960 billion this year and $535 billion next year.
Most people who bought homes in the past few years got low interest rates, and many existing homeowners took the opportunity to refinance loans at rates of 4% or lower.
In fact, a recent report from online real estate website Redfin estimates that more than half of homeowners with mortgages have rates below 4%.
That means there's very little interest in refinancing mortgages with rates above 5%, Barrett said.
"It may make sense for a debt consolidation with these rates if they are getting out from under higher-rate consumer debts, or if the homeowner decides to stay in their current home another 10 years and use a cash-out to do a major remodel project with their equity position so strong right now," he said.
Cities with the fastest-growing home prices in the Lincoln area
Cities with the fastest growing home prices in Lincoln metro area
#20. Pleasant Dale, NE
#19. Seward, NE
#18. Waverly, NE
#17. Utica, NE
#16. Garland, NE
#15. Lincoln, NE
#14. Hickman, NE
#13. Malcolm, NE
#12. Roca, NE
#11. Goehner, NE
#10. Denton, NE
#9. Sprague, NE
#8. Raymond, NE
#7. Bennet, NE
#6. Davey, NE
#5. Martell, NE
#4. Firth, NE
#3. Panama, NE
#2. Hallam, NE
#1. Cordova, NE
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On Twitter @LincolnBizBuzz.
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A Long Island little league is dedicating the remainder of its game this season to 10-year-old Lazar LaPenna who died during a weekend game in Long Beach.
The young athlete died "unexpectedly" from a medical condition at a game Friday evening, the Lido Beach Little League announced. They said LaPenna was on the field when the "tragic episode occurred."
"Our deepest sympathies go out to mother Monique, father and coach Gregg, brothers Gerry and Blaze, and the entire LaPenna family. Our thoughts and prayers are with them all at this time," the league wrote on Facebook.
The 10-year-old attended the fourth grade at East School in Long Beach.
"This tragedy is sure to raise many emotions, concerns, and questions for students and staff, particularly for who are close to this family," Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Gallagher said.
"All of our schools have a Crisis Intervention Team made up of a professionals trained to help with the needs of students, parents, and school personnel at difficult times such as this."
The district said grief counselors will be made available throughout the week for any students and parents who seek any assistance.
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A federal jury on Monday convicted an NYPD veteran of assaulting an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, rejecting his claim that he was defending himself when he tackled the officer and grabbed his gas mask.
Thomas Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a jury with a self-defense argument. Webster, who was wearing a face mask in court, showed no obvious reaction to the verdict finding him guilty of all six counts against him.
Webster, 56, testified that he was trying to protect himself from a “rogue cop” who punched him in the face. He also accused the Metropolitan Police Department officer, Noah Rathbun, of instigating the confrontation.
Rathbun testified that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster as a violent mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, disrupting Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory over then-President Donald Trump.
Webster’s jury trial was the fourth for a Capitol riot case. The first three defendants to get a jury trial were convicted of all charges in their respective indictments. A judge decided two other cases without a jury, acquitting one of the defendants and partially acquitting the other.
A grand jury indicted Webster on six counts, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, a metal flag pole. Webster wasn’t accused of entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Webster’s jury trial was the fourth for a Capitol riot case. The first three defendants to get a jury trial were convicted of all charges in their respective indictments. A judge decided two other cases without a jury, acquitting one of the defendants and partially acquitting the other.
Webster drove alone to Washington, D.C., from his home near Goshen, New York, on the eve of the Jan.6 “Stop the Steal” rally. He was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a U.S. Marine Corps flag on a metal pole when he approached the Capitol, after listening to Trump address thousands of supporters.
Webster said he went to the Capitol to “petition” lawmakers to “relook” at the results of the 2020 presidential election. But he testified that he didn’t intend to interfere with Congress’ joint session to certify the Electoral College vote.
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults before they made any physical contact. Webster said he was attending his first political protest as a civilian and expressing his free speech rights when he yelled at officers behind a row of bike racks.
The body camera video shows that Webster slammed one of the bike racks at Rathbun before the officer reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face. Webster said it felt like he had been hit by a freight train.
“It was a hard hit, and all I wanted to do was defend myself,” Webster said.
Webster also said he believed Rathbun was coming after him and recalled thinking, “He’s gone rogue.”
Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain.
After Rathbun struck his face, Webster swung a metal flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a bike rack. Rathbun grabbed the broken pole from Webster, who charged at the officer, tackled him to the ground and grabbed his gas mask.
Rathbun testified that he started choking as the chin strap on his gas mask pressed against his throat.
“That’s not a position that anyone wants to be in,” Rathbun said.
Webster said he grabbed Rathbun by the gas mask because he wanted the officer to see his hands.
During the trial’s closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly urged jurors to reject Webster’s self-defense argument.
“Don’t let the defendant off the hook for what he did that day,” Kelly said.
Defense attorney James Monroe said Webster had a right to defend himself against a “bad cop” who was using excessive force.
“Get behind the truth. And I’m talking about the whole truth,” Monroe told jurors.
Rathbun reported a hand injury from a separate encounter with a rioter inside the Capitol. He didn’t report any injuries caused by Webster, but jurors saw photos of leg bruises that Rathbun attributed to his confrontation with the retired officer.
A Metropolitan Police Department detective who investigated the incident said Rathbun didn’t recall his encounter with Webster several days after the riot. Rathbun said seeing the body camera video refreshed his memory.
Webster faced six counts: assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer using a dangerous weapon; civil disorder; entering and remaining in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; and engaging in an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service, which included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991.
More than 780 people have been charged with riot-related federal crimes. The Justice Department says over 245 of them have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. More than 100 officers were injured.
Two other defendants testified at their trials. Dustin Byron Thompson, an Ohio man who was convicted by a jury of obstructing Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory, said he was following orders from then-President Donald Trump. A judge hearing testimony without a jury acquitted Matthew Martin, a New Mexico man who said outnumbered police officers allowed him and others to enter the Capitol through the Rotunda doors.
Two riot defendants didn’t testify at their trials before jurors convicted them of all charges, including interfering with officers. One of them, Thomas Robertson, was an off-duty police officer from Rocky Mount, Virginia. The other, Texas resident Guy Wesley Reffitt, also was convicted of storming the Capitol with a holstered handgun.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump nominee who acquitted Martin of all charges, also presided over a bench trial for New Mexico elected official Couy Griffin. McFadden convicted Griffin of illegally entering restricted Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct.
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A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the city discriminated against the activist, Harold Shurtleff, because of his “religious viewpoint,” even though it had routinely approved applications for the use of one of the three flagpoles outside City Hall that fly the U.S., Massachusetts and Boston flags.
Occasionally, the city takes down its own pennant and temporarily hoists another flag.
Shurtleff and his Camp Constitution wanted to fly a white banner with a red cross on a blue background in the upper left corner, called the Christian flag.
Breyer said the case hinged on whether the flag-flying is an act of the government, in which case Boston can do whatever it wants, or private parties like Shurtleff.
Breyer wrote that “the city’s lack of meaningful involvement in the selection of flags or the crafting of their messages leads us to classify the flag raisings as private, not government, speech — though nothing prevents Boston from changing its policies going forward.”
The city has said that in the event of a loss at the Supreme Court it probably will change its policy to take more control of what flags can fly.
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The case is Shurtleff v. Boston, 20-1800.
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Teen shot through house in Shreveport identified
Caddo Parish Coroner's Office has released the name of the teen that was killed Sunday afternoon after a stray bullet struck her inside a residence on Fairfield Avenue.
Landry Anglin, 13, was shot just a little before 2:30 p.m. May 1, in the 4500 block of Fairfield Avenue.
Anglin was transported to Ochsner LSU Health Hospital where she later died from her injuries.
Chief Wayne Smith said Anglin was struck by the bullet after two vehicles appeared to be chasing each other down Erie Street, during that chase they began shooting. One of the stray bullets traveled west and struck the home hitting Anglin who was inside the residence.
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"This is a very sad day, an emotional day, that a shooting takes place period in our city that people get injured. It's hard," Smith said.
Sunday night, state representative Thomas Pressly took to Facebook to express condolences and outrage.
"Let this be the loudest of wake up calls to all our public officials, community leaders, and citizens to come together to truly address the crime plaguing our city," he said.
The shooting remains under investigation by the Shreveport Police Department.
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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LEE COUNTY, Fla. – Waste Pro is switching to a one-day pickup for trash, recycling and yard waste per week for some residents in Lee County.
The change begins Monday, May 16 for residents in Estero, San Carlos, Gateway and South Fort Myers, according to a release from the county.
City officials said the change will affect 45,500 addresses in Lee County.
“We continually look for ways to improve residents’ experiences,” said Doug Whitehead, Lee County Solid Waste director. “Same-day service minimizes the time residents have material sitting curbside and reduces collection-vehicle traffic in neighborhoods to one day per week.”
Officials said postcards will be mailed out to homes that will be affected by this change.
Residents can use the search feature on Lee County Solid Waste’s website to find their collection day starting on May 6 or use the Resident Information Tool.
Anyone with questions on the switch can contact Waste Pro customer service at 239-337-0800.
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LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Ala. —
UPDATE: May 2, 2022 10:30 a.m.
In a news conference this morning, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said that a warrant has been issued for Lauderdale County Corrections Assistant Director Vicki White for the charge of Permitting or Facilitating Escape in the First Degree.
The case is now considered a major case by the U.S. Marshals Service and officials believe she was involved in inmate White's escape. Being designated a "major case" allows for additional resources on the case.
The U.S. Marshals Service said Sunday that it is offering up to $10,000 for information about an escaped inmate and a “missing and endangered” correctional officer who disappeared Friday after the two left a jail in north Alabama. Submit tips at 1-800-336-0102 or click here. Investigators emphasized that Casey Cole White is 6'9" tall, which would make him stand out.
During the news conference, Sheriff Singleton explained how the policies in place for inmate transport. Department policy states that inmates much be escorted by two deputies. Earlier in the day, two vans of inmates left for the courthouse, one with five inmates, one with seven each with two officers. After they left, Director White asked for inmate Casey White to be brought for transport. She said she was the only firearms-certified deputy available.
Casey White was brought out and handcuffed and shackled and the two left at 9:41 a.m. Director White said she was taking him to the courthouse for a mental evaluation and would give him to other deputies. Video surveillance showed her car parked at 9:49 a.m. The video was not clear enough to show any individuals. Sheriff Singleton said that she would not have had time to go to the courthouse, drop him off, and get to that parking space.
On Friday, the sheriff said that no appointment had been scheduled and they they never showed up at the courthouse.
Officials now believe that Director Vicki White was involved planning and executing the escape. They don't know yet if there was a previous relationship between the two or if any threats or coercion were involved. Sheriff Singleton said they are reviewing video and phone records to see if there was any unusual interaction between them. He did state that in her position, she does walk the halls of the detention center and has opportunity to interact with any given inmate.
Inmate Casey White was transferred to the Lauderdale County Detention Center from the Alabama Department of Corrections for pending court hearings. He was charged with capital murder in the death of Connie Ridgeway in 2015. While inmate White was at LCDC in 2020, Officials heard rumors of an escape plan and found a shank in White's cell. He was transferred back to ADOC. The transport policy of two deputies per inmate was emphasized after this incident, and the sheriff says Director White was aware of it.
Inmate White is considered to be armed and extremely dangerous, and Sheriff Singleton cautioned all law enforcement officers to not take any chances with him.
According to the sheriff, Director White had been talking about retiring and sold her home earlier this year. Friday, April 29 was to be her last day of work. Her retirement paperwork had been filed with the state but not completed, as she had to have a conference with the personnel director. Without completed paperwork, benefits could not be released. Those who worked with her say this is not the Vicki White they knew.
May 2, 2022
The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office released new pictures of inmate Casey Cole White. According to the Sheriff's Office, this is the most current photo of inmate Casey Cole White. The search for White and Lauderdale County Corrections Assistant Director Vicki White (no relation) continues.
May 1, 2022: Reward offered
The U.S. Marshals Service said Sunday that it is offering up to $10,000 for information about an escaped inmate and a “missing and endangered” correctional officer who disappeared Friday after the two left a jail in north Alabama. Submit tips at 1-800-336-0102 or click here.
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Lauderdale County corrections officer Vicki White is missing in the line of duty. White is the Assistant Director of Corrections.
AD White left the detention center to escort inmate Casey White (no relation) at approximately 9:40 a.m. to the courthouse. Casey White is 38 years old, 6'6", 252 pounds. He was in custody on charges of capital murder in the death of Connie Ridgeway.
At about 11:30, AD White's patrol vehicle was located in a parking lot in Florence. In ALEA's Blue Alert, they state that, "Casey White is believed to be a serious threat to the corrections officer and the public."
According to a timeline released by the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office, at 9:20 a.m., White left the detention center to escort inmate Casey White to the Courthouse for a mental health evaluation. She reportedly told the booking officer that she was the only deputy available who was firearms certified and she was dropping him off to other deputies at the courthouse.
They never arrived.
If you have any information or have seen AD White or Casey White, please call 911.
U.S. Marshals, FBI, ATF, Secret Service, and ALEA are al working on the investigation. According to the timeline, AD White's car was searched but, "no evidence was located to assist [us] in the investigation."
Timeline released Saturday, April 30.
In a news conference on Friday, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said:
She was escorting inmate Casey White to an alleged mental health evaluation this morning at Courthouse. We have confirmed that there was no mental health evaluation scheduled. They left jail at 9:41 this morning. Shortly after 11:00 today, someone spotted her patrol vehicle parked in a parking lot at a local shopping center, so we know it was there as early as 11:00 or shortly after.
When she left the detention center, she informed the booking officer that she was going to drop the inmate off here at the courthouse with other deputies and that she was going to seek some medical attention because she wasn't feeling well. We confirmed that she never made that appointment. Wasn't exactly an appointment - she was going to one of the local Express Med kind of places and she never showed up there.
At 3:30 that booking officer reported to the other assistant director Missy Smith that they had been trying to contact Director White and couldn't get her, couldn't get in touch with her, couldn't get her to answer her phone. In fact, her phone was going to straight voicemail. So they became concerned and at that time knowing that she left that morning with inmate White they confirmed that he was not back at the detention center either. That was about 3:30 this afternoon. We immediately began our investigation, our search to see what we had going on. That's where we're at now. We are still aggressively investigating trying to find out what happened and trying to locate Deputy White and inmate White.
In reponse to reporter questions about policies for transporting inmates, Sheriff Singleton said, "She was along, which was a strict violation of policy. Our policy is any inmate under those charges are to have two sworn deputies escort them and that did not happen. Now, Director White was over the operations of the detention center. She coordinates all the transport from the detention center to the court, and so forth. So I'm sure her subordinates didn't question her when she told them she was bringing him to court for a mental evaluation. that she left that she was that he was being transferred. No matter No. We've confirmed there were no mental evaluations. No other court appearance."
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon State Police say they arrested a 30-year-old Winnetka, California, man who led them on a wild chase in a stolen ambulance.
Troopers responded to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 near Portland on Friday night, KPTV reported. The driver started to run, but returned and stole the Woodburn ambulance that had responded.
The driver took the ambulance north into Portland, where police soon started receiving calls about it driving on sidewalks and the wrong way down one-way streets.
Officers tried to pin the ambulance but the driver rammed a cruiser, hit a building and continued driving. Eventually, the driver got on I-5 southbound.
Police arrested him after he stopped the ambulance and tried to get into another car on the freeway.
Authorities said he had a blood alcohol content of .21, nearly three times the legal limit.
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TUPELO • Lee County supervisors are considering reviving the county's long-dead website after a local political advocacy organizer requested more transparency online.
On Monday, Dinetia Newman, an organizer with the political advocacy organization Indivisible Northeast Mississippi, asked the board of supervisors to place agendas online ahead of meetings. She said this would increase transparency about the topics being discussed by county leaders and would likely bolster attendance at the meetings as well.
“I think that would encourage more attendance and participation by Lee County citizens,” she said.
The board asked if the county could post the agenda on the county website, and County Administrator Bill Benson said the county had not maintained the website since the former administrator retired.
Board President District 1 Supervisor Phil Morgan said the county should get the website up and running and said he was not opposed to putting agendas online. He noted that the county emails the agenda to interested parties before the meeting.
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Benson said after the meeting that the county would check out its options. He said Three Rivers Planning and Development District keeps Lee County's records on its website, so he would reach out to the non-profit to see if they would help reviving the county's website for them. He said if Three Rivers could not update the site, the board could hire a company to do the upgrades.
“It is not going to be done by the next meeting, but I am going to work on it,” he said.
Benson also floated creating a county Facebook page to release the agenda.
Newman said the May 2 meeting agenda was not emailed to her until 8 a.m. for the 9 a.m. meeting. She told the Daily Journal that she would have missed the meeting had she not checked her email.
“(Board of Supervisors Secretary Teresa Williams) does send me a copy of the agenda,” she said. “ I appreciate that, but I think that needs to be more broadly viewed and available. If they follow through with making their website more informational, they will need to put not only the agenda but also the supporting documents.”
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ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A 41-year-old man died as the result of an accident at Alabama International Dragway over the weekend.
According to the St. Clair County Coroner’s Office, a vehicle lunged and hit another vehicle that was on a jack being worked on. The second vehicle was knocked off the jack stand and resulted in the death of Chad McDonald, of Talladega.
Details are limited at this time.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Big things are happening in Salem, and we’re not just talking about what’s happening in the legislature.
Salem Mayor Chuck Bennett joined AM Extra to share updates on the city government level. Bennett touched on the infrastructure bond and the funding toward Salem policing to test and acquire body cameras.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Blanchet House is opening its doors again for indoor dining on Monday after COVID-19 forced the organization to only offer to-go meals nearly two years ago.
In a release, the Blanchet House said anyone needing a hot meal is welcome to dine in at the Founders Cafe. Those looking to grab a bite can indulge in unlimited servings of food, along with coffee and water.
“We know that reopening the cafe to indoor dining isn’t a total remedy to the problems our guests face. But we know being welcome indoors will bring some relief. And an opportunity to feel ‘more human’ again,” said Scott Kerman, Blanchet House Executive Director.
The cafe is open from Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.to 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Along with the cafe reopening, Blanchet House said volunteers will be handing out clothing, hygiene kits and offering resources.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. - Eligible frontline workers will soon receive either a check or deposit of $750 dollars from the state of Minnesota after lawmakers passed a bipartisan frontline worker bill on Friday.
The Minnesota Department of Labor said eligible workers will have 45 days from when the application opens to claim the one time payment.
In the Med City, swaths of employees are set to receive a payment, which has prompted different reactions.
Local nurse Amanda White tells KIMT she thought it was nice that lawmakers are compensating workers for their actions during the last few years.
"Personally it is nice that they are even doing anything. It is more so that they are recognizing that we worked through a hard time, so any amount of money is better than none in my opinion," White said.
However, another local nurse, Brooke Alexander, tells KIMT she believes the state should do more to address ongoing healthcare challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alexander said she did not agree with the states' parameters, which will only compensate workers that were on the frontlines between March of 2020 and June of 2021.
"I think anybody who is still working and still putting themselves at risk and still working at higher demand levels and higher patient ratios and stuff like that, I think they are just as deserving," Alexander said.
In addition to expanding eligibility requirements, Alexander said she would like to see the state act on patient to provider ratios, which she said are at unsafe levels.
The legislature has attempted to alleviate healthcare staffing shortages, with the GOP controlled senate passing the "Nurse Licensure Compact Bill" in Feb.
However, that bill has not made much headway through the DFL controlled house, even as nurses are continuing to leave, according to Alexander.
Alexander said despite drawbacks to the law, she is happy for frontline workers to finally get recognition by financial compensation.
"I feel like it is a really good step in the right direction to thank those who put their lives on the line and their safety on the line," Alexander said.
You can apply for the states' frontline worker pay by clicking here.
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FREEBORN COUNTY, Minn.- United Way of Freeborn County is asking you to participate in a screen free week.
It's celebrated every spring by thousands of families, schools and communities and this year it kicks off Monday May 2nd until Sunday May 8th.
During this time you are asked to play, explore, and rediscover the joys of life beyond screens.
In case you need some help finding activities to do, here is a poster of United Way of Freeborn County's list of events this week- attached here.
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GAS TRACKER: Prices in the area hovering near $4 a gallon May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 Updated 2 hrs ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Here's the latest as of May 2. Gas prices IA/MN Infogram Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save More From KIMT News 3 Olmsted County Nationwide air travel headaches not hitting RST Updated Dec 27, 2021 News Albert Lea man to stand trial for threatening woman with a knife Updated Apr 25, 2022 Cerro Gordo County Authorities ID Clear Lake bicyclist hit by truck and killed Wednesday Updated Dec 2, 2021 Local Rochester Grizzlies are off to a hot 2-0 start Updated Dec 2, 2021 News The Salvation Army fights hunger with Feed The Need food drive Updated Apr 30, 2022 Coronavirus Rochester Public Transit introduces advanced air purifying filters to busses Updated Dec 2, 2021 Recommended for you
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What we know about escaped inmate, corrections officer missing from Lauderdale County
A manhunt is underway after an inmate and corrections officer were reported missing from the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence Friday afternoon.
The two were last seen Friday morning. A Blue Alert was issued for the two later that afternoon when colleagues noticed the two had not returned.
Here's what we know about where the case stands.
What happened?
Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White and inmate Casey Cole White, who are not related, left the Lauderdale County Detention Center at about 9:30 a.m. Friday, bound for the courthouse, and they have not been seen since.
Sheriff Rick Singleton said Vicki White, a 25 year employee of the sheriff's office, told subordinates she was taking Casey White for a mental health evaluation, and afterward would be seeking medical attention herself.
He said investigators have since learned there was no scheduled mental health evaluation or any other court appearance, and that the officer never sought medical attention.
It is not known whether this is a case of an assisted escape or if Vicki White was perhaps overpowered and kidnapped, the sheriff said.
Authorities found the vehicle in which they left the detention center in the parking lot of a Lauderdale County shopping center.
Singleton said Monday that surveillance video of the patrol vehicle that was timestamped at 9:49 a.m. Friday leads them to believe that they went straight to the parking lot where the vehicle was found.
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Who is missing corrections officer Vicki White?
Vicki White is a 25 year employee of the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office, where she serves as the Assistant Director of Corrections.
Singleton said Monday that Vicki White had sold her home about a month ago and had talked about going to the beach. Friday was to be her last day at work before retirement.
A warrant has been issued for Vicki White's arrest on charges of 1st degree committing or facilitating escape.
"Those of us who work with Vicki White, and have worked with her for years, this is not the Vicki White we know, by any stretch of the imagination. She has been an exemplary employee," Singleton said Monday.
Who is escaped inmate Casey Cole White?
Singleton described Casey White as 6 feet 9 inches tall; a "Blue Alert" issued by Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says he is 6 feet 6 inches tall, 252 pounds. He was an Alabama Department of Corrections inmate, but had been brought to Lauderdale County in February 2022 to face capital murder charges.
The News Courier in Athens reported in April 2019 that Casey White had been sentenced to 75 years in prison after his conviction for two counts of first-degree kidnapping and attempted murder. He was accused of trying to kill his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping her two roommates. He also was convicted of first-degree robbery, first-degree and third-degree burglary, burglary of a vehicle, animal cruelty for shooting a dog, and attempting to elude.
He faced capital murder charges in the 2015 murder-for-hire slaying of Connie Ridgeway. She was found dead in her Meadowland Apartments home. Charges in the case were brought in September 2020, WAFF TV reported.
Singleton said Monday that his office had thwarted an escape attempt planned by Casey White while he was held in their facility in 2020.
What is a Blue Alert?
A Blue Alert is activated when a local, state or federal law enforcement officer in Alabama has been killed or seriously injured and the perpetrator is at large, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
The alert was issued Friday evening.
Donna Thornton, Miranda Prescott and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — UPDATE: The lockdown has been lifted at College Station Elementary. Law enforcement checked the area and gave the school the "all clear." The school day will resume as normal.
Pulaski County Special School District announced College Station Elementary was placed on lockdown after staff heard gunshots in the area.
"Out of an abundance of caution, College Station Elementary is currently on lockdown. Staff heard gunshots in the area and immediately initiated lockdown procedures. Local authorities are on the scene. We will update as soon as we know more information," the statement read.
We will update this article with more information as it becomes available.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Arkansas Blood Institute (ABI) is offering donors free tickets to Magic Springs Theme and Water Park.
ABI says it currently has less than half of the blood supply needed to support local patients. This creates a threat to the blood availability for local hospitals overall.
“Summer traditionally challenges our ability to collect blood products, as many are vacationing and outside of their normal routines,” said Dr. John Armitage, president, and CEO of Arkansas Blood Institute. “We’re so thankful to our loyal summer partner Magic Springs for helping us reward those who make their summer a lifesaving one by donating blood for those in need.”
Anyone 16 years of age or older is encouraged to donate immediately. ABI says blood donations normally take about an hour, and one donation can save up to three lives.
Successful donors will receive an “Adventure Starts Here” t-shirt and a free ticket to Magic Springs Theme and Water Park in Hot Springs.
ABI supports the blood inventory of patients in over 40 local hospitals, medical facilities, and air ambulances across the state.
You can make an appointment online or by calling 877-340-8777.
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NEWTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — Today, Haley Zega lives a relatively everyday life of a 27-year-old. The Fayetteville native still calls Northwest Arkansas home as she pursues an acting career, works at TheatreSquared, and loves hiking the historic trails of Arkansas.
Those close to Zega, her family, and even those who lived in the area in 2001 know there is more to the young woman than meets the eye.
“Let’s start at the very beginning, I guess. A perfect place to start,” said Zega in a 2020 video from her YouTube page.
On April 29, 2001, Zega and her grandparents set off to hike in the Upper Buffalo Wilderness of Newton County, Arkansas. The family and some friends ventured out to Hawksbill Crag. The late April weather was mild. Sunny skies and temperatures near 80 degrees – ideal for hiking the scenic trail.
As the group reached Whitaker Point, Haley could hear a waterfall below the bluff. Eager to see the falls, Haley begged her grandparents to take her closer. However, a quick look and growing tired from the hike led her grandparents to reject the request.
Zega recalled sitting down where she stood and telling the group that she would stay put until they took her to see the falls. Calling her bluff, her grandparents and the group refused and turned to leave, knowing Haley would quickly give up the objection and follow them back down the trail.
They were correct, but they quickly found themselves in the middle of a 52-hour-long nightmare.
As Haley took off after the group, she spied a game trail just off the path. She followed it, thinking it bent around a cluster of trees and would drop her on the trail. Zega followed the game trail but never found her way back to the main trail and became lost.
“It was like a curtain dropped. I couldn’t see or hear anybody. I was basically instantly lost, and then I stayed lost,” recalled Zega.
Haley continued to twist her way through the woods, searching for her family, the trail, and any sign she was on the right path, but none of which came. Some have described what happened as divine intervention, a guardian angel, a spirit guide, or even an alien? For Haley, it was Alicia – who she describes as her only imaginary friend who showed up when Haley needed her most.
“She was with me the whole time, and she was a comforting, positive presence,” said Zega. “She was just there the whole time and kept me focused on my goal.”
That goal was to get home safely. Zega recalled having a determined attitude that would see her get through, “I got myself into this mess, so there’s no reason why I can’t get myself out of it.”
The preliminary search for Haley had begun.
Back in Fayetteville, Haley’s mom, Kelly Syer, attended a film festival on a rare day off that would soon become anything but relaxing.
“From the back of the room, the announcer got to the microphone and asked me to please come to the back of the room, and it scared me half to death,” said Syer. “I was told by two friends who had come at the request of my parents and the folks that were with them to get me because Haley had gone missing.”
Before setting off on the nearly two-hour drive to the trailhead, Syer rushed home. She grabbed clothes and Haley’s pillowcase – anything she felt would aid rescue team K-9s in picking up her daughter’s scent.
On the drive there, Syer says the fear began to sink in. “I was not exactly panicky, but really, really scared. I knew that the trail was along a bluff line that drops a couple of hundred feet down to the Buffalo River and so knowing that, and the treacherousness, I was just scared to death that she had fallen.”
Haley had not fallen but had somehow navigated down the bluff uninjured and made it to the Buffalo River thanks to the help of her imaginary friend Alicia.
As the first day turned to night, Zega followed the river and eventually fell asleep atop a rock on the river. The sun came up, and a hungry and thirsty six-year-old once again set off downriver.
Search and rescue teams fanned out, and helicopters with infrared cameras flew along the river valley, searching for Haley. She told 5NEWS that she remembers seeing and hearing the helicopters and doing everything she could to be seen to no avail.
Night fell for a second time, and fearing it might rain, Haley found a small cave to spend her second night alone in the wilderness.
Temperatures fell into the 40s that night, and Syer remembers stepping into the cabin's bathroom that became home during the ordeal and opening the window to feel the cool air, thinking about how it must feel for her daughter.
May 1 arrived with Haley still missing. Syer, search and rescue teams, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Colleen Nick, the founder of the Morgan Nick Foundation, had amassed one of the largest search and rescue groups in Arkansas history with over 1,000 volunteers.
However, as time wore on, their search efforts began to change.
“We were basically thinking she had been abducted at this point because there was no trace of her and so we had sort of changed the direction of the search,” said Syer.
Little did she know that Haley had already been found around the same time.
Two men who lived in the area had approached the search and rescue teams suggesting a place they thought Haley could have wandered to. Search crews dismissed the idea, but that would not deter the men.
Familiar with the area and terrain, William Jeff Villines and Lyttle James set off with two mules and packed down into the valley, where they eventually found Haley curled in a ball near the banks of the Buffalo River.
The men offered Haley a Diet Coke and chocolate pudding as they got her situated on a mule and began their ascent back out of the valley and to a nearby road.
“I hate Diet Coke, and I didn’t like Diet Coke then, but it was like mana from Heaven,” said Zega.
After a few hours, the three made it back to the road and were able to contact crews to get an ambulance to their location as medical professionals began to assess Haley.
Back at the cabin, Syer recalls seeing former Washington County Sheriff Steve Whitmill pull down the long driveway. Anxiously awaiting any news, Syer and others stood out on the porch, ready to hear what Whitmill would tell them.
“He gets out of the vehicle and we’re just standing there, just staring,” said Syer. “He takes a few steps, he’s got a really serious look on his face, and then he said, ‘I’ve got a little girl who wants to see her momma.’”
Syer ran inside to get Haley’s favorite blanket before getting in Sheriff Whitmill’s vehicle as they set off to reunite mother and daughter. All along the way, Syer says she and Sheriff Whitmill were shouting out to search and rescue crews that Haley was found and safe – hearing the message echoed down the line as the news spread.
As they arrived at the ambulance where Haley was, Syer was thrilled to see her little girl.
“They opened the doors, and I just basically crawled on top of the gurney and was just like hovering over her. She was so tired and exhausted and didn’t have a lot to say, but she was just so happy,” said Syer.
After 52 long hours, Haley Zega was safe and once again with her family. At six years old, she had defied all odds and survived alone, without food, water, or shelter.
Today, Haley still hikes the trail at least once a year, and any chance she gets, she is excited to show the waterfall named after her to any hiking partner.
Haley was safe and unharmed. The family is grateful the outcome was not what it easily could have been. They don’t let the experience define who they are but rather use it as a way to teach others to be safe.
Syer urges anyone who hikes with children to bring whistles and dress in bright clothes. Both are great tools to be seen and heard if anyone is separated.
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Franklin's Treasures and Treats, which was started in a former Ben Franklin location by the same family that owned the last Lincoln location in the chain, has closed.
"With heavy hearts we are announcing the closure of Franklin's Treasures and Treats," the store said in a Facebook post on Saturday, which was its last day in business.
The store is planning to reopen at 10 a.m. Wednesday at its location at 920 N. 70th St. in the Meadowlane Shoppping Center for a closing sale.
Franklin's Treasures and Treats opened in November 2017, about a year and a half after Carol Schoenleber, whose family had run Ben Franklin stores in Lincoln for half a century, closed the last Lincoln location of the five-and-dime chain.
The new store, which had some of the same type of inventory as Ben Franklin's, was a family affair as well, with Schoenleber running it along with her husband and daughter.
Kelsey Schoenleber said in an email that there were a couple of reasons behind the decision to close the store.
For one, she's now moved out of state and isn't around to help with the store anymore. The store's lease also is expiring, "and we didn't want to sign another five-year lease with the uncertainty of retail these days."
For smaller businesses like us, prices on products have gone way up," Kelsey Schoenleber said. "Companies we have ordered from for the last 10-20 years, who never had a price increase during that time, have now had two to three price increases in the last year. We just felt it was a good time to step away."
Grocery chain Hy-Vee will ask up to 500 of its employees to move from corporate-level jobs to retail positions at its stores, it said in a public statement.
After the pandemic forced the last two meetings to be streamed online, Buffett clearly relished the chance to bring Berkshire’s loyal and devoted shareholders back to his hometown for what he likes to call “the Woodstock of Capitalism.”
Thousands of investors are in Omaha for the first normal Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in three years because of the pandemic. Here's why Warren Buffett and others are excited.
The company on Thursday announced plans for another data center in Omaha. Meanwhile, a data center project in Lincoln that's rumored to involve Google has showed little progress since being proposed in 2019.
The union also takes issue with BNSF’s new “HiViz” attendance policy. "The attempt is to keep people from taking a day off, and it’s working,” a union leader said. “It’s also driving people out of the industry.”
The EPA’s decision last week to suspend restrictions of summer sales of the lower-carbon, lower-cost E15 gasoline is temporary and only applies to the 2022 summer driving season.
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A 22-year-old Lincoln man who garnered the attention of his neighbors after assaulting a woman in his front lawn Sunday night later pointed a rifle at a group of people, prompting a standoff with police, according to authorities.
Lincoln Police Sgt. Chris Vollmer said officers first responded to the man's residence, near 30th and Vine streets, shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday after neighbors reported he had assaulted a woman out front.
As people intervened, Thomas Doran retreated to his residence and loaded a rifle, pointing it at at least six bystanders, Vollmer said.
Police arrived and a standoff ensued, lasting close to two hours before Doran surrendered himself to officers without further incident, Vollmer said.
The 22-year-old was arrested on suspicion of third-degree domestic assault, false imprisonment, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony and six counts of terroristic threats.
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Andrew Wegley joined the Journal Star as breaking news reporter after graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in May 2021.
Both drivers were headed in opposite directions on 70th Street at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when they collided near Revere Lane, one block south of Pine Lake Road, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
The Lincoln property owner awoke to a knock on her door in the hours after the March 19 fire, which investigators initially ruled an accidental electrical fire. Immediately, she suspected that assessment was wrong.
Haroon Sediqi, a 57-year-old Lincoln man, was pronounced dead at Bryan West Campus shortly after crashing Tuesday near 70th Street and Revere Lane, the sheriff's office said.
Deputies say the 30-year-old entered the unlocked business at 3705 S. Coddington Avenue and threw trash cans and chairs around, flipping equipment and spray-painting the building's exterior.
Two days before Kayla Matulka would be found stabbed and strangled, engagement photos of a seemingly happy couple were posted to their shared Facebook page. But texts and Internet phone searches showed a stormier reality.
The grenade's pin had been pulled, but the years of dirt and rust likely prevented the explosive from detonating when a worker uncovered it at around 2:30 p.m. Monday, according to the sheriff.
Elise Poole was attempting to flee tear gas fired by police when she was struck in the face by a projectile fired by an unknown officer, the lawsuit alleged.
Police arrested the 31-year-old on suspicion of robbery near Ninth and G streets at around 8:30 a.m. Sunday — but they didn't learn her true identity for several hours.
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Two Lincoln teenagers are in jail and a third was referred to juvenile court after police tied the group to a weekend smoke shop burglary of more than $10,000 worth of product, according to authorities.
Lincoln Police Sgt. Chris Vollmer said officers responded at around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to an alarm at Generation V smoke shop, 1501 N. Cotner Blvd., where police found the front glass broken and vape products stolen.
Vollmer said "previous intelligence" from ongoing investigations into similar break-ins led officers to 30th and N streets, where they found the three teens and the missing products in a car.
Police arrested 19-year-old Kaiden Cleary and 18-year-old Jamaul Williams on suspicion of burglary, a class 3 felony. A 16-year-old boy was referred to juvenile court on the same charge.
Vollmer said police haven't officially linked the teens to any prior break-ins.
Cleary and Williams were taken to the Lancaster County jail.
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A group of Native community members and others who oppose a housing development adjacent to Wilderness Park near First Street and Pioneers Boulevard have set up a prayer camp on the land to pressure the mayor into scuttling the project.
Overnight, Native leaders set up the Niskithe Prayer Camp -- a name taken from an UmoNhoN word meaning Saltwater -- to mark one week since the City Council approved zoning changes and land annexation that will allow the development to proceed.
The prayer camp name acknowledges the centuries-long relationship Indigenous people of many nations have had with this region and the Salt Creek waterway.
“We are here today to take back our voice, which was stolen from us at last week’s City Council hearing,” said Kevin Abourezk, a leader of the peaceful prayer camp. “As Indigenous people of this land, we have had much taken from us over the past few centuries. Today we are standing up and saying, ‘No more! We are here. We are strong. We will remain.'”
Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird has agreed to meet with the group sometime Tuesday, said Jennifer Williams, her chief of staff.
Environmental activists and members of the Native community sent over 100 letters opposing the proposed development, and turned out in force to speak at a City Council public hearing against the development known as Wilderness Crossing.
Opponents are concerned about the effect the traffic, light and noise will have on the native habitat and wildlife of the park — and that it will disrupt the sanctity of one of the oldest and most-used Native sweat lodges in the city. The sweat lodge is on private land that’s surrounded by Wilderness Park across the street from the proposed development.
Sam Manzitto Jr. plans to build 162 single-family homes, 134 townhomes and 205 apartments on about 75 acres south of Pioneers Boulevard between First Street and U.S. 77.
The land is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, which plans to sell the land and has been working with Manzitto since 2018 on plans to develop it. The land has been designated in the Comprehensive Plan for future urban residential development since 2002.
Last week, the City Council — with the exception of Sändra Washington and Jane Raybould — approved zoning changes, annexation of 141 acres of land in the area and changes to the Comprehensive Plan’s land use designations in the area.
Washington unsuccessfully tried to exempt the piece of private land where the sweat lodges are located from annexation.
Members of the Native community were especially upset that only Washington and Raybould even mentioned their concerns surrounding the sweat lodge, and Abourezk specifically called out Tom Beckius, Bennie Shobe and Tammy Ward as council members he’d considered allies.
The group wants a formal apology from the council and for members to engage in a restorative justice process with them, and asks the mayor to veto the council’s action last week.
Among their other demands: creation of a city Native Advisory Committee and appointment of Native members to the planning commission; an apology from the Catholic Church and for the church to reconsider its contract to sell the land to the Manzittos; a meeting with the developers to discuss possible solutions; and creation of city and county policies that protect special religious Indigenous ceremonial sites.
Margaret Reist is a recovering education reporter now writing about local and county government and the people who live in the city where she was born and raised.
A letter accompanying an application for a planned use development says the project will include 230 luxury apartment units to be built on the northern part of the lot by EPC Real Estate Group.
The City Council on Monday approved zoning changes and an annexation that will allow a controversial housing development near Wilderness Park to proceed.
One of the Republican candidates for Lancaster County Treasurer -- Tracy Refior, a financial adviser and small business owner, and Jasmine Gibson, a title clerk -- will face the incumbent in November.
The City Council approved zoning and annexation changes that will allow a luxury-style apartment community to move forward in the Waterford Estates neighborhood in northeast Lincoln.
The Lancaster County Democrats passed a resolution urging the City Council to rescind -- for now -- the ordinance updating city code to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.
Lancaster County Public Defender Joe Nigro is being challenged by another longtime attorney in the office, Kristi Egger. The winner will face Lincoln attorney Trevin Preble in the general election.
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Suspicious trash can leads to Knoxville street closures near campus
Knoxville police closed off several streets near the University of Tennessee campus Monday morning and early afternoon after a suspicious trash can was spotted.
Bomb crews worked to determine whether the contents of the trash can near the corner of 16th Street and Clinch Avenue were dangerous, but police determined that was not the case. Police were called just after 8 a.m. Monday and the streets were blocked until about 1 p.m.
Knoxville police officers responded after managers of a business reported seeing a man on surveillance video dropping off the trash can behind the building, placing items from his personal belongings in the trash can and then leaving the scene.
Out of an abundance of caution, explosive ordnance disposal experts were requested at the scene, a police spokesperson said. At least one adjacent building was evacuated, he said.
After deploying a robot, it was determined there was nothing dangerous in the trash can.
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Sheriff's Office, state fire marshal Investigate 'suspicious' Mims fire; woman, son die
Brevard County sheriff’s agents are reviewing the deaths of a mother and her 12-year-old son following a Saturday morning residential fire In Mims.
The fast-moving fire swept through the family’s Kingswood Drive home. Brevard County Fire Rescue crews were called at 9:30 a.m. and battled the blaze and discovered the remains of an unidentified 40-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy.
The state fire marshal was called in to investigate the origin of the fire. Homicide agents from the Sheriff’s Office also joined the investigation after being alerted.
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“The fire was very suspicious, and I cannot provide additional details except to say this incident was turned over to the state fire marshal’s office and Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for investigation,” said Don Walker, spokesperson for Brevard County Fire Rescue.
An autopsy is expected to be conducted this week to determine the exact cause of death for the two, including whether the woman and child were killed as a direct result of the fire.
J.D. Gallop is a Criminal Justice/Breaking News Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallop at 321-917-4641 or jgallop@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @JDGallop.
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SEATTLE — Starting Monday people hoping to catch the sights of Alaska will have another way of getting there.
Carnival Splendor will once again set sail from Seattle marking the full return to service for the cruise line's 23-vessel fleet.
Carnival Cruise Line is the first company to make a full comeback since the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on the industry.
Carnival will run three ships to Alaska this summer, including Splendor and Spirit departing from Seattle and Miracle departing from San Francisco.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has previously said the cruise industry brings in 5,500 jobs and $14.5 million in local and state taxes that go back into the economy.
"This is a billion-dollar industry for us," said Harrell.
Many businesses downtown, especially those along the waterfront, count on the dollars cruise passengers bring into the city to boost their annual revenues.
Ivar's Acres of Clams said the daily number of customers during the summer at least quadruples compared to the winter months, and new customers from the cruise ships will likely drive those numbers even higher.
Visit Seattle said in March that overall tourism in Seattle, while far from pre-pandemic levels, is also on the uptick with an 11% increase downtown from January to February this year.
In celebration of the return of cruises, the Port of Seattle and Carnival Cruise Line are holding a Back to Fun ribbon-cutting event at Pier 91 on Monday at 10:30 a.m.
Attendees must be able to show proof of full vaccination.
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BOISE, Idaho — A gender pay gap and daycare issues contributed the Gem State's No. 47 ranking.
Working mothers in Idaho have a tougher time than in nearly anywhere else in the country, according to a new study.
Wallethub's 'Best & Worst States for Working Moms' ranking placed Idaho at No. 47 out of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Only four states: South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana came in lower.
The study examined factors including daycare quality and costs of childcare, pediatricians per capita, median salary for women, share of families in poverty, and parental leave policies in setting the ranking, among others.
"Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, and nearly 68% of moms with children under age 18 were working in 2021," Wallethub wrote. "Unfortunately, the share of women in the workforce declined due to the COVID-19 pandemic, dropping around 1.3% between Q3 2019 and Q3 2021 (compared to 1.1% for men)."
Idaho's daycare quality and a wide income gap between men and women contributed to the low ranking, according to the study's authors.
The top five states for working moms are listed as Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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TYLER, Texas — Editor's Note: This video is from a previous story in April 2022
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, several restaurants and stores are offering freebies, discounts and other deals to celebrate and honor educators this week.
Teacher Appreciation Week runs from this Monday through Friday, and Tuesday is also National Teacher Day, which could offer the most deals for educators.
According to USA Today, most establishments will ask teachers to show their school ID and each location of the business could vary with their offers.
WHATABURGER
This week, teachers can get breakfast items for free, and they will have a 25% discount on all retail items in the Whatastore with the code WHATATEACHER22.
In addition to the free breakfast and discounts, 30 teachers within areas that have a Whataburger can be nominated by their peers to win $1,000 each for their schools.
CHICK-FIL-A
All Chick-fil-A Tyler locations are offering a free large tea for teachers and administrators from Monday through Friday. This includes the South Broadway Ave., Broadway Square Mall, Troup Highway and North Tyler/Lindale locations. The school employee must have a valid school ID.
BARNES & NOBLE
On Tuesday, Barnes & Noble Cafés will give educators a tall cup of hot or iced coffee or tea once they show their teacher ID.
APPLEBEE'S
Participating Applebee’s restaurants are offering 20% off to teachers and school staff during Teacher Appreciation Week.
ACADEMY SPORTS AND OUTDOORS
From April 3 to May 8, Academy is offering 10% off online or in-store. To access this deal, the teacher must identity with ID.me or present their teacher I.D. to the cashier at checkout.
BUFFALO WILD WINGS
The restaurant is offering teachers and school employees a 20% discount through this Friday for dine-in orders and “in-store pay” pickup orders. School employees must show a valid school ID.
FREDDY'S FROZEN CUSTARD & STEAKBURGERS
Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers is offering a free one-topping mini sundae Monday through Friday at participating locations. Teachers must give a valid ID for their dine-in or drive-thru orders.
MARBLE SLAB CREAMERY
At Marble Slab Creamery, teachers and nurses can get a buy-one-get-one-free small ice cream through Friday with the ice cream chain's Heroes Week initiative. Those looking to participate must have a valid ID.
GREAT AMERICAN COOKIES
Great American Cookies is giving teachers and nurses a free Original Chocolate Chip Cookie through this Friday with any purchase and a valid ID. This is a part of the company's Heroes Week initiative.
SONIC
Sonic Drive-ins will give a free cheeseburger with a purchase to those who are enrolled in the Sonic Teachers’ Circle, which is a free rewards program for educators within the chain’s app. The educators will have to be verified by today and then get a reward for a free cheeseburger Tuesday through May 17.
OFFICE MAX AND OFFICE DEPOT
Until June 25, teachers can get 20% off their qualifying regular-priced purchases and can get 20% back in bonus rewards on a qualifying purchase (up to $50 in rewards). Teachers will need a valid teacher ID, coupon and rewards member number, according to USA Today.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's population continued to shrink in 2021 as the nation's most populous state posted its second consecutive decline, state officials said Monday.
California lost 117,552 people in 2021, bringing its population to 39,185,605. That's still the largest in the country ahead of second-place Texas. But after years of steadily approaching 40 million residents, California's population is now back to where it was in 2016.
State officials blame the loss on a declining birth rate coupled with an increase in deaths, mostly because of COVID-19. Fewer people are moving to California from other states. And state officials say federal immigration policies have drastically curtailed the number of people moving here from other countries.
California's population declined for the first time in 2020, the result of a multi-year slow-down in growth that led to the state losing a seat in Congress after the 2020 U.S. Census. The state also lost population during the 2021 fiscal year, which ended on June 30.
Thirty-four of the state's 58 counties lost population last year. That includes Los Angeles — the nation's most populous county with 9.8 million residents — and San Diego and Orange counties, which together make up three of the most populous counties in the country.
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VACAVILLE, Calif. — Police received reports of a black bear wandering through the North Orchard area of Vacaville Monday morning.
The Vacaville Police Department wrote in a social media post that officers watched the bear as nearby schools assembled for class.
According to Vacaville Police Department, black bears sightings are common in Solano County as their habitat surrounds the area. Authorities are not planning to do anything about the bear, unless it poses a threat, in hopes that it will find its way back home.
However, the public is advised to avoid the bear if seen, keep windows and doors closed and bring pets inside.
If the bear is seen exhibiting aggressive behavior, get to a safe location and contact local police immediately.
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
While the vast majority of California’s school districts lost students during most of this past decade, hundreds of districts — mostly small and rural — have grown, emerging from the height of the pandemic with higher enrollment.
Most districts would welcome an enrollment increase and the per-student state funding boost that usually comes with it. But these growing districts were shortchanged when the state implemented blanket COVID-19 policies protecting districts that lost enrollment during the pandemic.
“The decision to hold districts harmless for declining enrollment came from a well-intended solution,” said Peter Birdsall, president of lobbying firm Education Advocates. “Even at the time, the concern was raised that some districts were growing. ‘Hold harmless’ actually hurt them.”
Because schools are funded on a per-student basis, when attendance drops, so does district revenue. For the 2020-21 school year, the state froze funding for school districts at pre-pandemic levels. So districts that saw enrollment and attendance plummet during the pandemic maintained their funding levels. But those that grew ended up with less money per student.
Education Advocates and the Small School Districts’ Association, an advocacy group representing these districts, estimate that 169 school districts, mostly small and rural, weren’t funded for all their students last school year.
“I think a lot of people look at the statistics and they say, ‘Where are the kids going?’” said Nicole Newman, superintendent at the Wheatland Union High School District, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. “But that’s not the case for every school district.”
And while the shortchanged districts are asking the Legislature to make up the difference, key lawmakers appear to be split: Some say the state has an obligation to make these districts whole, but others say the districts should forget about the past and look forward to unprecedented funding headed for all California schools next year.
According to a CalMatters analysis, 189 of the state’s 940 school districts grew between the 2019-20 and the 2020-21 school years. The combined enrollment at those districts is about 10% of California’s total public school enrollment.
“This has never happened in California finance where a district isn’t paid for serving a student,” said Tim Taylor, executive director of the Small Schools Districts’ Association. “I know for a fact that if this had happened to any of the big districts, they would’ve been paid.”
By the end of the 2019-20 school year, Wheatland Union High had about 900 students. The following school year, it grew to 932 students, a 4% increase. Meanwhile, public school enrollment statewide decreased by 3% that first year of the pandemic.
The growth among many small districts reflected the availability of affordable housing, Newman and other district administrators across the state said. Residents from coastal urban areas started buying homes further inland when employers shifted to remote work during the pandemic.
In San Bernardino County, Lucerne Valley Unified School District didn’t budget for growth in the 2020-21 school year. Superintendent Peter Livingston said he submitted a budget to his county office of education that anticipated stable enrollment. He says if he had budgeted for growth, the county wouldn’t have believed him.
“The county would’ve kicked back our budget,” he said. “They would’ve said, ‘Where are these kids coming from?’”
But when the district’s enrollment, excluding charter schools, increased by about 40 students, the district budget was short $460,000, Livingston said. In a typical year, the state usually adjusts funding for growing districts, but because funding was frozen at pre-pandemic levels, Lucerne Valley Unified never got the money. The 840-student district had to hire four additional teachers and pay their salaries with reserve funds.
Newman is still hoping to get the $385,000 dollars her district should have received last year.
“I had to hire three more teachers, and those teachers had to get paid when I didn’t get the funding for those students,” Newman said. “In smaller school districts, that’s a significant amount.”
Newman said she had to dip into the district’s reserve fund to pay for extra staff. In total, Newman estimates that the 169 districts that grew in the last school year are owed $76.7 million — “a speck of water in the bucket for California,” she said.
San Benito High School District in Hollister, about 30 miles east of Monterey Bay, gained 160 students between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. It grew by an additional 142 students this year. Since the start of the pandemic, enrollment has increased by nearly 10%.
Superintendent Shawn Tennenbaum estimates the district should have received about $1.2 million more in funding for the 2020-21 school year.
“We need every dollar we can get to support our students,” he said. “All we’re asking for is the funds that were not paid during that anomaly.”
Wheatland Union High has also continued to grow. This school year, the district’s enrollment increased by 14%, to 1,066. Lucerne Valley grew by a hundred students, or about 5%.
At issue is a one-year blip: The state reverted to normal and did pay growing districts the full amount this year, based on real per-student enrollment. Even as school funding will reach another historic high this year, these superintendents still say their schools are still owed for last year’s growth.
“My concern is that it sets a precedent,” Livingston said. “If we don’t fund growth, we’re not supporting students.”
State Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Sacramento Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s education finance subcommittee, said districts shouldn’t expect to be reimbursed for any growth in the last school year. Instead, he said, theys should focus on the “bigger picture” of unprecedented public school funding on its way next school year.
The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates a 3.5% increase, about $4 billion more, in guaranteed K-12 education funding next year thanks to recent increases in state revenues. McCarty said districts are worrying about small dollar amounts when there’s plenty of money heading their way.
“We have more funding for schools than we’ve had in the history of California,” McCarty said. “If you have to dip into your reserves for a year, that’s a small price to pay.”
But Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, a Long Beach Democrat who chairs the education committee, said districts that grew in enrollment last year “should be made whole” through the state budget. He said the decision to fund schools based on 2019-20 attendance was “made in haste” during the early months of the pandemic.
“We paid more attention to declining enrollment than we have to the few districts that have increased enrollment,” O’Donnell said. “Those districts that have increased enrollment deserve a seat at the table.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — According to a pop-up message on Encina Preparatory High School's website, a lockdown was lifted Monday morning after a student was stabbed during a fight on campus in Sacramento.
The lockdown at Katherine Johnson Middle School, which is on the same campus, has also been lifted. Both schools are part of the San Juan Unified School District.
According to a statement from San Juan Unified School District, a fight happened Monday morning between two high school students during first period near the back of the campus. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, one student stabbed another student "superficially" and the student who was stabbed "just needs stitches."
The injured student is getting medical attention. The fight is under investigation.
The district said the school day with continue as normal. Families that want to pick up their students can check out their students at the front office.
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Customers at Green Apple Books on Clement Street didn’t expect to find a man with a guitar wandering among the fiction and cooking sections as they shopped.
It was Independent Bookstore Day, which occurs annually on the last Saturday of April, so they assumed he may have been part of the festive ambiance. But once they got a closer look at him, they couldn’t believe who it really was — and why the legendary musician was playing an otherwise unadvertised gig in San Francisco.
One after another, they quietly approached the bookstore staff for confirmation.
“People were like, ‘That’s not Jonathan Richman, is it?’” Green Apple Books employee Olivia Veveiros told SFGATE on Sunday afternoon. “When I said that it was, they were just blown away.”
Richman is known as the singer-songwriter, guitarist and one of the founding members of the Modern Lovers, a band on the cutting edge of punk and new wave that formed in the 1970s and was active with various members through the 1980s. The original lineup included guitarist John Felice, bassist Rolfe Anderson, who was replaced by Harvard student Ernie Brooks, drummer David Robinson, who would go on to become a co-founding member of the Cars, and keyboardist Jerry Harrison, who took the place of Felice and later joined the Talking Heads. Their sole, self-titled album, inspired by Richman’s teenage captivation with the Velvet Underground, was released through Berkeley label Beserkley Records and went on to influence the likes of the Sex Pistols, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Yo La Tengo, all bands that would notably cover their most popular track, “Roadrunner.”
Much like the drifting musical narrator he portrays in the Farrelly brothers’ 1998 romantic comedy “There’s Something About Mary,” Richman meandered around the store as he riffed through his impromptu hourlong set, which did not include any Modern Lovers songs, but a few tracks from his latest solo record, “Want to Visit My Inner House?” as well as some spontaneous melodies and monologues.
Veveiros said Richman is an old friend of former Green Apple Books manager Mary Goree and a longtime supporter of the bookstore, and that he came to the city to “surprise” patrons and staff with some music in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day. Aside from a cryptic tweet shared less than an hour before his arrival, Richman’s appearance wasn’t publicized by the bookstore — partly because the staff didn’t want the space to get too packed — though the crowd swelled to about 40 people as the word spread.
“I think a lot of people also just happened to be celebrating the day and showed up at just the right time,” Veveiros said.
For decades, Richman played in San Francisco for an annual show held in December to celebrate the birthday of another longtime friend, Dawn Holliday, who was the general manager of Slim's and the Great American Music Hall. He also had residencies at the Make Out Room and the Swedish American Hall.
But those who had a chance to catch the gig at Green Apple Books had a rare chance to see him in an intimate setting.
“[It was] an incredible surprise,” Veveiros said. “You never know what will happen when you visit our stores.”
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Police in New York City are looking into whether a disgruntled customer may be connected to the deadly shooting of deliveryman Zhiwen Yan, law enforcement sources tell News 4.
Yan, 45, was traveling through Queens late Saturday on his way to drop off a delivery when he was fatally shot in the chest around 9:30 p.m., police said.
Two days later, the police sources said detectives were investigating if a man with past run-ins at the Great Wall Chinese restaurant where Yan delivered from was involved in the shooting.
A police report had previously been filed by the restaurant against an individual in January for allegedly threatening to use a gun on staff there, according to those sources.
Yan was found unresponsive next to his scooter in Forest Hills at the intersection of 108th Street and 67th Drive. EMS units took him to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Friends in the community have been leaving flowers, cards and hand-written notes at a growing memorial for the husband and father of three.
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"We're all obviously a little shaken, he was someone that was very instrumental in the community. He was someone everyone knew and loved and he was kind of a symbol of community for the neighborhood," Matthew Murray said.
Rep. Grace Meng, who represents the Queens neighborhood, met with Yan's wife on Sunday, who said she was frozen in shock and barely able to walk or talk.
Neighbors remembering Yan describe a much beloved community man who would always say hello "my friend."
"He was just always excited to see you and he would just shout 'hi my friend' across Queens Boulevard. Not being able to have that and knowing that I'll never hear that again from him is very upsetting," Murray said.
Investigators over the weekend were looking into whether the shot that killed Yan was a "stray bullet."
No arrests had been made as of Monday afternoon.
The law enforcement sources said if previous incidents relating to the restaurant's customer complaints can be linked to Yan's killing, then police have a person of interest they want to question.
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COVINGTON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — On Monday, the former chief of the Brookside Police Department was arrested and charged with impersonating an officer, allegedly in order to get out of a traffic ticket.
Michael Ryan Jones, who formerly served as the chief of the BPD until resigning in January, turned himself over to the Covington County Jail Monday and was charged with impersonating a peace officer. His arrest comes after an incident on April 12, when he was allegedly used his Brookside Police badge to avoid getting a ticket during a traffic stop in Covington County.
“It’s more important now than ever before that law enforcement maintain high levels of professionalism and integrity,” Covington County Sheriff Blake Turman said in a statement. “In this case, we had a young deputy that was trying to be respectful to a supposed veteran officer and gave him a break. But Jones was not the Chief at Brookside when he held himself out to be, using deception to disrespect that young deputy. The deputy has since also issued a speeding ticket to go along with the Impersonation charge. This remains an active investigation and no further comments will be made at this time.”
Over the last several months, the Brookside Police Department has faced scrutiny over its ticketing practices, as well as alleged corruption. In a report published by AL.com, figures pointed to half of the town’s revenue had come from an increase in fines and forfeitures, including officers taking property during traffic stops.
Jones resigned less than a week after the AL.com report came out. Following Jones’ resignation, Henry Irby was named interim chief of the department.
The Brookside PD is currently being investigated.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A cathartic return of music and culture to New Orleans’ chief music festival after three years ended its first weekend with the Red Hot Chili Peppers honoring the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins by closing out the show for his band.
Hawkins died March 25 and the Foo Fighters bowed out of their slot at Jazz Fest, the first time New Orleans has held the massive festival since COVID-19 cancelled it in 2020 and 2021.
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith’s bass drum Sunday had a hawk silhouette like the one tattooed on Hawkins’ arm. Taylor was written across it, The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocatereported.
And at the end of the 90-minute set, Smith took center stage as Hawkins’ widow and members of the Foo Fighters stood just off stage.
“We love the Foo Fighters and we love our brother Taylor Hawkins. It’s meant a lot to us to be able to play for them,” said Smith who then led the crowd in chanting ‘We love you Taylor!’”
The vibe of the 2022 Jazz Festechoed the 2006 festival, held eight months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The 2020 and 2021 festivals were canceled by an entirely different storm — COVID-19.
The two-weekend event draws tens of thousands to the city’s Fair Grounds Race Course, where as many as 80 musical acts perform daily on more than a dozen stages, complemented by art and craft exhibits and an array of booths featuring foods from Louisiana and beyond.
Jazz Fest attracts well known acts like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who and Lionel Richie but it might be best known for showcasing a dizzying array of Louisiana musical talent, styles and genres — jazz, blues, Cajun, Zydeco and more.
Masks were a rare sight at the festival, most of which takes place outdoors. It is taking place as COVID-19 cases are at a lower point than they’ve been in months and two-thirds of the U.S. population is vaccinated.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Johnny Depp’s agent testified Monday that his ex-wife’s 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post describing herself as a victim of domestic abuse was “catastrophic” to his career and coincided with the loss of a $23 million deal for a “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel.
Amber Heard’s lawyers pushed back aggressively against the agent’s assertion on cross-examination, suggesting that the article was inconsequential amid a stream of bad publicity for Depp brought on by his own bad behavior.
Depp is suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court, saying her article defamed him when she described herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” The article never mentions Depp by name, but Depp’s lawyers say he was defamed nevertheless because it’s a clear reference to abuse allegations Heard levied in 2016.
In testimony Monday, agent Jack Whigham said Depp was still able to work after the initial allegations made against him in 2016. He was paid $8 million for “City Of Lies,” $10 million for “Murder on the Orient Express” and $13.5 million for “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” all of which shot in 2017, albeit under contracts reached prior to the allegations made against him.
But he said The Washington Post piece was uniquely damaging to Depp’s career.
“It was a first-person account, extremely impactful,” Whigham said of the op-ed.
After that, he said Depp struggled to get any kind of work. He had to take a pay cut — down to $3 million — to do the independent film “Minimata,” and a $22.5 million verbal deal he had with Disney for a sixth “Pirates” film was scuttled, Whigham said.
On cross-examination, though, Heard’s lawyers asked whether the “Pirates” deal had already gone south by the time Heard’s article was published. Whigham acknowledged he never had a written deal for Depp to appear in a sixth “Pirates” film.” And while he said “Pirates” producer Jerry Bruckheimer talked favorably throughout 2018 about Depp coming back to the franchise, Disney executives were noncommittal at best.
By early 2019 — weeks after Heard’s op-ed — Whigham said it was clear that Depp’s role in any “Pirates” film was scuttled and that producers were instead looking to move ahead with Margot Robbie in a lead role.
Heard’s lawyers have cited a variety of factors — including reports of heavy drug and alcohol use, a lawsuit by a crew member in July 2018 who says he was punched on set by Depp, and a separate libel lawsuit Depp filed against a British newspaper in 2018 — as things that damaged Depp’s image more than the Post article.
For Depp’s Virginia lawsuit to be successful, he not only needs to show that he was falsely accused, but he also needs to show that the op-ed piece — not Heard’s abuse allegations in 2016 when she filed for divorce and obtained a temporary restraining order — is what caused the damage.
Depp’s lawyers also presented testimony from an intellectual property expert who testified about the negative turn in Depp’s reputation. But his own data, showing trend lines from Google searches, showed negative spikes occurring after the 2016 abuse allegations, but negligible or nonexistent changes after the Post article.
The trial has now entered its fourth week. Much of the testimony during the first three weeks centered on the volatile relationship between Depp and Heard. Depp says he has never struck Heard. Her lawyers said during the trial’s opening statements that she was physically and sexually abused by Depp on multiple occasions.
Heard is expected to testify later this week.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former ABC News anchor Charles Gibson dropped completely out of the public eye upon his retirement in 2009. Now, prodded by his daughter Kate, he’s back.
The two are collaborating on “The Book Case,” a weekly podcast on reading and authors produced by ABC Audio that debuted Monday and featured a conversation with Oprah Winfrey about her influential book club. The Gibsons will interview authors and, in general, do what they can to encourage reading.
Even during some strained times in her teen years, Kate said she could always talk to her father about books. Kept apart during the pandemic — she lives in Minneapolis, dad is in New York — those discussions continued. She suggested a podcast on reading, and he readily agreed, perhaps not realizing what he was getting himself into.
“He called me up and said, ‘Oh, my God, this is going to be a lot of work,’” said Kate Gibson, a mother of two who worked as a television executive but now is studying for a master’s degree in library and information science.
Yet in conversation, the 79-year-old Gibson is clearly juiced by the project.
He’s never written a book himself. He marvels about their interviews with authors and the different approaches writers take to their work. Some map their books out completely ahead of time, others go sentence by sentence to see where it leads them.
“It’s proving to be extraordinarily educational for us, and I think, not only will you get some good recommendations of books, but I think you’ll learn a lot about writing,” he said.
They lean toward fiction, but not solely. Father and daughter each have veto power; each has to agree a particular book is worth recommending or believe that an author will make a compelling interview. On each podcast, an independent bookseller will report on what is selling in their region.
Besides individual books — each marvels about Niall Williams’ novel “This is Happiness” — they want to talk about ways to encourage young people to read. A goal is to make libraries seem less intimidating, and one of their early episodes includes a talk with Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress.
They talk to novelist Anna Quindlen not only about her work but on how handwritten notes and letters are becoming rarer, and how this will hinder future historians in knowing about day-to-day life.
“Write,” Charles Gibson said. “Even if you don’t have anything to say. She writes about how she wishes her father had written a journal, so that she could have a piece of him now that he’s gone.”
Following the debut, new episodes will be released each Thursday on most services that carry podcasts, starting this week.
“It ‘drops’ on Thursday, as they say,” Gibson said.
“Hipster alert!” his daughter jokes.
Gibson said his essential disappearance from public upon retirement was quite intentional. Gibson was a “Good Morning America” host from 1987 to 1998, then returned from 1999 to 2006. He was “World News Tonight” anchor from 2006 to 2009.
Some people hang around in some type of “emeritus” fashion; he wanted to cut the cord. He reemerged once, as a commentator on ABC News’ Election Night coverage in 2016, and found it unsatisfying. His time had passed.
He keeps up with “Good Morning America” some, and sees the evening news regularly. Yet he finds that difficult because he’s always editing in his head, wondering why one story was chosen over another, or whether something important went unsaid.
“It’s hard to watch because you know a lot about what is going on behind the scenes,” he said. “It’s better to be gone, and I have enjoyed retirement immensely.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one.
Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your actors are mannequins, and the costumes have been chosen for you.
“Create a one-frame movie in a period room? A great opportunity and an intriguing challenge,” the director writes in a statement next to his creation, a mysterious mix of characters, emotions and fashion in the museum’s striking Frank Lloyd Wright Room.
Eight other directors are also putting their stamp on the period rooms, for “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” the Met’s spring Costume Institute exhibit that will be launched with Monday’s Met Gala, opening to the public on May 7. Guests at the gala, which raises millions for the self-funding institute and has become a major fashion and pop culture spectacle, will be among the first see the displays.
The exhibit is the second part of a broader show on American fashionto mark the Costume Institute’s 75th anniversary. Masterminded as usual by star curator Andrew Bolton, the new installment is both sequel and precursor to “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which opened last September and is focused more on contemporary designers and establishing what Bolton calls a vocabulary for fashion. (The shows will run concurrently and close together in September.)
If the new “Anthology” show is meant to provide crucial historical context, it also seeks to find untold stories and unsung heroes in early American fashion, especially female designers, and especially those of color. Many of their stories, Bolton said when announcing the show, “have been forgotten, overlooked, or relegated to a footnote in the annals of fashion history.”
The nine directors were tapped to enliven the storytelling with their own varying aesthetics. In addition to Scorsese they include two of the Met Gala’s hosts Monday night — actor-director Regina King and designer-director Tom Ford. Also contributing are last year’s Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, Radha Blank, Janicza Bravo, Sofia Coppola, Julie Dash and Autumn de Wilde.
For King, the Richmond Room, depicting early 19th-century domestic life for wealthy Virginians, provided a chance to highlight Black designer Fannie Criss Payne, who was born in the late 1860s to formerly enslaved parents and became a top local dressmaker. She was known for stitching a name tape into her garments to “sign” her work — part of an emerging sense of clothes-making as a creative endeavor.
King says she was looking “to portray the power and strength Fannie Criss Payne exudes through her awe-inspiring story and exquisite clothing,” placing her in a prosperous working situation — and proudly wearing her own design — fitting a client, and employing another Black woman as a seamstress.
Filmmaker Radha Blank looks at Maria Hollander, founder of a clothing business in the mid-19th century in Massachusetts who used her business success to advocate for abolition and women’s rights. In the museum’s Shaker Retiring Room, director Zhao connects with the minimalist aesthetic of 1930s sportswear designer Claire McCardell.
De Wilde uses her set in the Baltimore Dining Room to examine the influence of European fashion on American women — including some disapproving American attitudes about those low-cut gowns from Paris. Dash focuses on Black dressmaker Ann Lowe, who designed future first lady Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress but was barely recognized for it. “The designer was shrouded in secrecy,” writes Dash. “Invisibility was the cloak she wore, and yet she persisted.”
In the wing’s Gothic Revival Library, Bravo looks at the works of Elizabeth Hawes, a mid-20th century designer and fashion writer. And Coppola, given the McKim, Mead & White Stair Hall and another room, writes that she at first wasn’t sure what to do: ”How do you stage a scene without actors or a story?” She ultimately teamed with sculptor Rachel Feinstein to create distinctive faces for her “characters.”
Each filmmaker reached into their own bag of tricks. For Scorsese, the fashions he was given were designed by the brilliant couturier Charles James — the subject of his own Costume Exhibit (and Met Gala) in 2014. Scorsese knew he needed to create a story “that could be felt across the length of that room.” He turned to 1940s Technicolor films and used John Stah’s “Leave Her to Heaven,” what he calls “a true Technicolor noir.” As to what happens before and after the scene we see — which includes a woman crying near a portrait of a man, and a Martini glass nearby — “my hope is that people will come away with multiple possibilities unfolding in their mind’s eye.”
Sure to be a talker is the display in the museum’s Versailles room, so known for its panoramic circular view of Versailles painted by John Vanderlyn between 1818 and 1819.
Ford transforms the room into a depiction of the “Battle of Versailles” — not a military conflict but the name given to a major night for American fashion in 1973, when five American sportswear designers (including Oscar de la Renta and Anne Klein) “faced off” against five French couture designers at a show in Versailles and showed the world what American fashion was made of.
In his tableau, Ford decided to make it a real battle with warring mannequins, many dressed in ensembles from that pivotal show. “The weapons have changed,” Ford writes. “In place of fans and feather boas are fencing foils and front kicks.”
“In America: An Anthology of Fashion” opens to the public May 7. Part one, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” remains open at the Anna Wintour Costume Center. Both close in September.
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— The suppressed emotions and anxieties of a seemingly flawless 12-year-old girl gather monstrous proportions in Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching,” a Finnish body horror fairy tale that begins streaming Friday on Hulu. In the film, young Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), whose mother runs the artificially upbeat video blog “Lovely Everyday Life,” hides a dead bird’s egg in her bedroom that grows unusually large and hatches a very metaphorical beaked beast. In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr praised “Hatching” for “poking holes in the gnawing fear of all perfectionists, especially girls on the verge of puberty, that the pretty veneer is hiding something ugly, or worse.”
— Ifthe radiant “Apollo 10 1/2,” recently released on Netflix, reminded you of the warm and wistful pleasures of Richard Linklater’s deceptively modest films, a new Criterion Channel series will be a welcome sight. As of May 1, the Criterion Channel is hosting a 15-film series devoted to the Austin, Texas, auteur, streaming films from Linklater’s Gen X-defining breakthrough “Slacker” to his years-in-the-making Oscar-nominated hit “Boyhood.” If you haven’t seen them, keep an eye out for some less heralded gems like the well-observed backstage drama “Me and Orson Welles” and the black comedy “Bernie,” with a tour-de-force Jack Black.
— Sofia Alvarez penned two well-received Netflix teen rom-coms adapted from Jenny Han’s novels: 2018′s “To All the Boys I’ve Ever Loved” and its 2020 sequel, “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You.” In “Along for the Ride,” debuting Friday on Netflix, Alvarez makes her directorial debut. Adapted from Sarah Dessen’s 2009 novel, set in a seaside town over summer, it stars Emma Pasarow and Belmont Cameli as two insomniac teens who connect on moonlight walks.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
MUSIC
— Arcade Fire’s sixth album, “WE,” is only about 40 minutes long but there’s a lot in those 40 minutes, ranging from throbbing, chilly electronica to earnest camp-fire singalongs. The band says the seven tracks are split into a side “channeling the fear and loneliness of isolation” and the other “expressing the joy and power of reconnection.” Second single “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” is definitely from the latter, with the lyrics “Some people want the rock without the roll/ But we all know there’s no God without soul.” The band has tapped Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich to produce alongside the band’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. Catch the result on “Saturday Night Live” the day after the album drops.
— It’s the 50th anniversary of 1972 and The Black Crowes are celebrating with an EP of covers from songs that came out that year. There are renditions of The Rolling Stones‘ “Rocks Off,” T. Rex‘s “The Slider,” Rod Stewart‘s “You Wear It Well,” Little Feat‘s “Easy to Slip,” David Bowie‘s “Moonage Daydream” and The Temptations‘ “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” The Black Crowes’ album is titled “1972” and frontman Chris Robinson says that year was a watershed, saying “some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll songs ever made came out of that year.”
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— “Meltdown: Three Mile Island” examines the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant’s brush with disaster in 1979. The four-part documentary uses re-enactments, archival footage, home video and interviews to detail what is considered the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history. “Meltdown” relies on the perspective of engineer and whistle-blower Richard Parks and members of the community that lived through the partial meltdown of one plant reactor. Directed by Kief Davidson (“The Ivory Game”), the docuseries premieres Wednesday on Netflix.
— “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” offers another twist in the space saga that keeps on giving. The Paramount+ series is set during the pre-Capt. Kirk years of the U.S.S. Enterprise, when Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) commands the ship on its search for new worlds. Also in the cast: Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock, Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel and Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura. Akiva Goldsman (“Star Trek: Picard”) wrote and directed the series premiere of the 10-episode season debuting weekly beginning Thursday.
— A documentary about Sheryl Crow is described as an “intimate story of song and sacrifice,” detailing her life and career through interviews with the Grammy-winning musician and friends and collaborators including Laura Dern, Emmylou Harris and Joe Walsh. “Sheryl,” debuting Friday on Showtime, includes footage from two decades of touring as it covers the obstacles she faced from sexism in the music industry, her driving need for perfection and struggles with depression and cancer. Her influential legacy and late-in-life motherhood also are part of the film directed by Amy Scott.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean superstar PSY said his new album marks a “farewell to ‘Gangnam Style’” — the hit song that propelled him to superstardom exactly a decade ago.
Indeed, the music video for the lead single — “That That” featuring Suga from BTS — shows PSY in the famous blue suit he wore in the “Gangnam Style” video.
“So, a guy in a blue tuxedo comes out and gets a slap from Suga and goes on his way,” alluding to his old self walking away from the past, PSY told The Associated Press during an interview before the album’s release. His latest album “PSY 9th,” released Friday, has 12 songs, including one featuring Korean-Canadian rapper Tablo.
PSY, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, swept the world with “Gangnam Style” in 2012. The song, with its addictive horse-riding dance and catchy melodies, made a global splash and currently has over 4.4 billion views on YouTube.
In an interview, PSY discussed the long gap in recordings, whether he’s still pressured by the global success of “Gangnam Style,” and what he envisions for himself and the Korean pop industry.
Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.
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AP: “PSY 9th” took five years. What took so long?
PSY: One can’t satisfy everyone. People’s taste is subjective. But if I let someone listen to my music and even if that person isn’t from the industry, if that person says, “This is not that great,” I make a change. There are 40 to 50 people I play my music to when it’s ready. Until they collectively say, “This is the best it can get,” I search for the song. So… I also make a lot of changes. Our artists find this difficult when working with me, and I want to change the habit, but it’s hard to correct it. When I make music, I listen to it on a cellphone speaker, on a big speaker, and do my best to try to find a fault… I kill many songs, and I’ve been in that process for a long time.
AP: Who are those 40-50 people?
PSY: Every artist in my company and some of our label employees. There are young and old people including my parents… The most random person is my best friend — someone my age living everyday life who has been continuously monitoring my songs ever since my first album.
AP: It’s been 10 years since “Gangnam Style.” Are you still conscious of “Gangnam Style?” Do you feel pressure?
PSY: The hidden theme of this music video is “Farewell to Gangnam Style.” So, a guy in a blue tuxedo comes out and gets a slap from Suga and goes on his way. There is a hidden theme in the song of me and Suga in new outfits sending old PSY off. It’s not a serious video but there is such a scene. But personally, and work wise, the success of “Gangnam Style” was a very big event so it’s impossible to not be conscious of it permanently. But at the same time, it’s been a long time, and right now I feel very free and easy. So instead of being conscious of it, I think of it as the biggest trophy on my shelf, nothing more or less. Right now, I’m just mesmerized by doing new music with new friends.
AP: So how long did it take you to get over “Gangnam Style?”
PSY: I couldn’t get over it at all for the 7th album. I was largely over it five years ago when I released my 8th album. Now, I am completely over it.
AP: What’s your favorite song in your music career?
PSY: There is a song called “It’s Art” in my 5th album. Whatever I write, it’d probably be difficult to beat that song.
AP: Why?
PSY: Even though I’ve been doing music for a long time, there are some of my own songs that still make me proud. That’s the song. It’s emotional and has nice beats and messages, and the audience loves the song. I’d never promoted the song, but it went viral and became the song that I sing after “Champion” and “Gangnam Style” during concerts.
AP: If there were to be the biggest change in the Korean pop industry in the near future, what would that be?
PSY: K-pop will continuously level up in terms of the size of budget and efforts going in, and the standard of trainees… I think the next change will be metaverse… Metaverse will bring changes to the K-pop industry by getting rid of boundaries for stage and audience.
AP: Are you preparing any NFT or metaverse-related project?
PSY: It’s my first time revealing this. I am preparing a character of myself that sings and dances. Thankfully, people are used to an illustration of me because I’ve been using it as my album cover ever since my debut… But PSY as a singer should remain active offline for a long time. I am not known for a muscular body or well-trained dance moves. The audience gets thrilled by my vibe and atmosphere on stage, so an audience-free concert won’t be an option for me. But I am working closely with artists in my label to prepare for the metaverse world.
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“Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency” by Mark K. Updegrove (Dutton)
Nearly six decades after his assassination in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy and his legacy remain an obsession for historians and the public alike. Mark K. Updegrove’s “Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency” demonstrates why that obsession is well-deserved.
Updegrove’s book provides a succinct but absorbing look at key moments in Kennedy’s time in office and provides a counterweight to some of the doorstopper biographies that have been published over the years. Unlike some of those, like Robert Dallek’s excellent Kennedy biography, Updegrove doesn’t aim for a sweeping history of every moment in Kennedy’s life.
Updegrove focuses on the key moments of Kennedy’s presidency, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Civil Rights Movement. The years leading up Kennedy’s time in the White House take up less than a third of the book, but hardly feel brushed over.
Few people are in a better position to write about Kennedy’s life and legacy than Updegrove, the former head of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and ABC News’ presidential historian.
The book’s most dramatic sections, as expected of any book on Kennedy’s presidency, are the ones focusing on Kennedy grappling with the Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union as well as the struggles over Civil Rights. Kennedy’s complicated relationship with Johnson, his unfaithful yet mythologized marriage to Jackie and his brother’s role in the presidency all are covered concisely, but none are given short shrift.
Updegrove provides a balanced look at Kennedy’s personal and political failings while offering a look at why a man who served just 1,036 days in office continues to rank so high by historians among the nation’s presidents.
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ZURICH (AP) — Wotan beckoned the other gods to join him in walking to Valhalla, their new home acquired at a high and painful price. Instead of following, they shot him looks of contempt and allowed him to enter on his own.
Andreas Homoki’s production of Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” that opened at the Zurich Opera on Saturday night is a family affair, stripping Wagner’s mythology of usual trappings, instead laser-focused on a dysfunctional, brooding bunch consumed by greed. No rainbow bridge, no hint of a river, mountaintop or underground mine, not even an eye patch.
“You don’t need to see Valhalla built up by the giants,” conductor Gianandrea Noseda said.
Only a 25-minute walk from the Escher Houses flats at 11-13 Zeltweg where Wagner composed “Rheingold,” “Die Walküre” and the first two acts of “Siegfried” from 1853-57, the Zurich Opera is staging its first “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Ring of the Nibelung)” since Robert Wilson’s typically austere rendition of 2000-01. Homoki and set designer Christian Schmidt will debut the four operas over two years, culminating in a pair of Ring Cycles in the spring of 2024.
Homoki, intendant of the Zurich Opera since 2012, is directing the Ring as among his imprints on the house, where he will be succeeded in 2025 by Matthias Schulz, currently intendant at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
“Literally 70% of the piece was composed in a house I drive by with my car to go to rehearsals,” Homoki said ahead of the opening. “In a way, the Ring comes back to its source, That adds an interesting coincidence with what we want to do with the Ring. So rather than offering interpretations, like what is the meaning of this and that, the emphasis will be on looking at the structure.”
They placed “Rheingold” in three large rooms that spun on a turntable, likened by Homoki to a mind’s imagination of a heavenly mansion.
The Almavivas or Larins would be at home here. Valhalla, the gods’ newly completed castle, was seen in a painting punctured by the giants demanding payment and represented near the end of the night by a new golden table of stage-wide length.
“There aren’t these whole sort of mythological godlike figures. It’s almost like make a family drama,” said Christopher Purves, a 62-year-old British bass-baritone who portrays the dwarf leader Alberich in a black leather sleeveless vest. “I think it’s relatable to the audience. I think they’ll understand who the characters are, but also where they’ve come from, why they’re angry, why they’re evil. I think it’s quite a simple reading of it in some respects.”
Wotan (Tomasz Konieczny) was banker-like in a gray three-piece suit and Fricka (Patricia Bardon) in a green dress that signaled elegance and big bucks.
Costume designer Florian Schaaf dressed Froh (Omer Kobiljak) and Donner (Jordan Shanahan), the gods of light and thunder, as dandies in rowing blazers and straw boaters, carrying cricket bats. The giants, Fasolt (David Soar) and Fafner (Oleg Davydov), were topped by Tyrolean hats. Only Loge (Matthias Klink), the god of fire who both embraces and shuns the others, looked out of place, in a rust velvet coat and long stringy hair. Rheinmaidens were in white with Marilyn Monroe wigs, Erda also in white, and the Niebelung in black.
Shorn from thematic concepts that have multiplied over the past half-century, Homoki’s staging relies heavily on the characters’ personalities — and what the singers bring to the roles.
“Alberich is sort of written with me in mind — it suits my character so well,” Purves said. “There’s something a little bit nasty. We enjoy very much finding horrible things in our souls as performers that we can then put on stage that we wouldn’t normally exhibit in real life.”
In a jewel box of a house with 1,100 capacity — houses in New York, London, Paris, Munich and Milan are vastly larger — singers don’t have to push their voices. Noseda conducted a propulsive, electric performance in his first attempt of a Ring opera, increasing intensity and decibels at key moments.
“It’s been very inspiring and enriching,” said the 58-year-old Noseda, who became the Zurich Opera’s music director last fall. “Just the fact that the idea of the Ring was born in this city makes it more meaningful.”
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NEWTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — Today, Haley Zega lives a relatively everyday life of a 27-year-old. The Fayetteville native still calls Northwest Arkansas home as she pursues an acting career, works at TheatreSquared, and loves hiking the historic trails of Arkansas.
Those close to Zega, her family, and even those who lived in the area in 2001 know there is more to the young woman than meets the eye.
“Let’s start at the very beginning, I guess. A perfect place to start,” said Zega in a 2020 video from her YouTube page.
On April 29, 2001, Zega and her grandparents set off to hike in the Upper Buffalo Wilderness of Newton County, Arkansas. The family and some friends ventured out to Hawksbill Crag. The late April weather was mild. Sunny skies and temperatures near 80 degrees – ideal for hiking the scenic trail.
As the group reached Whitaker Point, Haley could hear a waterfall below the bluff. Eager to see the falls, Haley begged her grandparents to take her closer. However, a quick look and growing tired from the hike led her grandparents to reject the request.
Zega recalled sitting down where she stood and telling the group that she would stay put until they took her to see the falls. Calling her bluff, her grandparents and the group refused and turned to leave, knowing Haley would quickly give up the objection and follow them back down the trail.
They were correct, but they quickly found themselves in the middle of a 52-hour-long nightmare.
As Haley took off after the group, she spied a game trail just off the path. She followed it, thinking it bent around a cluster of trees and would drop her on the trail. Zega followed the game trail but never found her way back to the main trail and became lost.
“It was like a curtain dropped. I couldn’t see or hear anybody. I was basically instantly lost, and then I stayed lost,” recalled Zega.
Haley continued to twist her way through the woods, searching for her family, the trail, and any sign she was on the right path, but none of which came. Some have described what happened as divine intervention, a guardian angel, a spirit guide, or even an alien? For Haley, it was Alicia – who she describes as her only imaginary friend who showed up when Haley needed her most.
“She was with me the whole time, and she was a comforting, positive presence,” said Zega. “She was just there the whole time and kept me focused on my goal.”
That goal was to get home safely. Zega recalled having a determined attitude that would see her get through, “I got myself into this mess, so there’s no reason why I can’t get myself out of it.”
The preliminary search for Haley had begun.
Back in Fayetteville, Haley’s mom, Kelly Syer, attended a film festival on a rare day off that would soon become anything but relaxing.
“From the back of the room, the announcer got to the microphone and asked me to please come to the back of the room, and it scared me half to death,” said Syer. “I was told by two friends who had come at the request of my parents and the folks that were with them to get me because Haley had gone missing.”
Before setting off on the nearly two-hour drive to the trailhead, Syer rushed home. She grabbed clothes and Haley’s pillowcase – anything she felt would aid rescue team K-9s in picking up her daughter’s scent.
On the drive there, Syer says the fear began to sink in. “I was not exactly panicky, but really, really scared. I knew that the trail was along a bluff line that drops a couple of hundred feet down to the Buffalo River and so knowing that, and the treacherousness, I was just scared to death that she had fallen.”
Haley had not fallen but had somehow navigated down the bluff uninjured and made it to the Buffalo River thanks to the help of her imaginary friend Alicia.
As the first day turned to night, Zega followed the river and eventually fell asleep atop a rock on the river. The sun came up, and a hungry and thirsty six-year-old once again set off downriver.
Search and rescue teams fanned out, and helicopters with infrared cameras flew along the river valley, searching for Haley. She told 5NEWS that she remembers seeing and hearing the helicopters and doing everything she could to be seen to no avail.
Night fell for a second time, and fearing it might rain, Haley found a small cave to spend her second night alone in the wilderness.
Temperatures fell into the 40s that night, and Syer remembers stepping into the cabin's bathroom that became home during the ordeal and opening the window to feel the cool air, thinking about how it must feel for her daughter.
May 1 arrived with Haley still missing. Syer, search and rescue teams, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Colleen Nick, the founder of the Morgan Nick Foundation, had amassed one of the largest search and rescue groups in Arkansas history with over 1,000 volunteers.
However, as time wore on, their search efforts began to change.
“We were basically thinking she had been abducted at this point because there was no trace of her and so we had sort of changed the direction of the search,” said Syer.
Little did she know that Haley had already been found around the same time.
Two men who lived in the area had approached the search and rescue teams suggesting a place they thought Haley could have wandered to. Search crews dismissed the idea, but that would not deter the men.
Familiar with the area and terrain, William Jeff Villines and Lyttle James set off with two mules and packed down into the valley, where they eventually found Haley curled in a ball near the banks of the Buffalo River.
The men offered Haley a Diet Coke and chocolate pudding as they got her situated on a mule and began their ascent back out of the valley and to a nearby road.
“I hate Diet Coke, and I didn’t like Diet Coke then, but it was like mana from Heaven,” said Zega.
After a few hours, the three made it back to the road and were able to contact crews to get an ambulance to their location as medical professionals began to assess Haley.
Back at the cabin, Syer recalls seeing former Washington County Sheriff Steve Whitmill pull down the long driveway. Anxiously awaiting any news, Syer and others stood out on the porch, ready to hear what Whitmill would tell them.
“He gets out of the vehicle and we’re just standing there, just staring,” said Syer. “He takes a few steps, he’s got a really serious look on his face, and then he said, ‘I’ve got a little girl who wants to see her momma.’”
Syer ran inside to get Haley’s favorite blanket before getting in Sheriff Whitmill’s vehicle as they set off to reunite mother and daughter. All along the way, Syer says she and Sheriff Whitmill were shouting out to search and rescue crews that Haley was found and safe – hearing the message echoed down the line as the news spread.
As they arrived at the ambulance where Haley was, Syer was thrilled to see her little girl.
“They opened the doors, and I just basically crawled on top of the gurney and was just like hovering over her. She was so tired and exhausted and didn’t have a lot to say, but she was just so happy,” said Syer.
After 52 long hours, Haley Zega was safe and once again with her family. At six years old, she had defied all odds and survived alone, without food, water, or shelter.
Today, Haley still hikes the trail at least once a year, and any chance she gets, she is excited to show the waterfall named after her to any hiking partner.
Haley was safe and unharmed. The family is grateful the outcome was not what it easily could have been. They don’t let the experience define who they are but rather use it as a way to teach others to be safe.
Syer urges anyone who hikes with children to bring whistles and dress in bright clothes. Both are great tools to be seen and heard if anyone is separated.
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TUPELO - The Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi (BGCNMS) raised over $256,000 during its annual fundraising campaign, which concluded last week.
That means BGCNMS concluded their 2022 campaign having beat their goal of 225,000 by 14%.
For the second year in a row, the campaign kicked off virtually in March. The campaign supports the five BGCNMS Clubhouse locations in Lee, Tippah, Union and Lafayette Counties. Community Captains were: Lindsey Chaney (Tupelo), Trey Hankins (Ripley), Dr. Stephen Monroe (Oxford) and Jay Herrington and Mike Nobles (New Albany).
To increase momentum, for the second year, the campaign included an incentive of a special summer surprise for members of the community securing the greatest percentage of perspective donors. This year's winner was the Ripley Community, who secured 138% of their campaign goal and raised more than $58,000. This was the second year in a row the Clubhouse was named competition winner.
"Our community has always believed that it's everyone's responsibility to ensure that all of our kids have what they need to succeed. This year's record-breaking total shows how committed we are to that idea. Our Club members are such great ambassadors for the program that it makes our job as fundraisers very easy,” said Hankins.
Over $17,000 was raised by new team members in each community, including Joyce Graddy of Ripley, Mike Nobles of New Albany, Ed Morgan of Oxford and Jill West and Chaney of Tupelo.
“The generosity of individuals and businesses to our 2022 Annual Campaign is so humbling. Your support of the youth served in your communities by our organization assures us that, with your help, we are making a difference in their lives on a daily basis,” said Zell Long, Chief Executive Officer of Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi.
The organization partnered with DNS Associates in Connecticut to conduct its annual campaign. Susanne Kenney of DNS Associates has worked with the BGCNMS board and leadership staff for nine years. She called them a dedicated and passionate group that works to ensure “every child that comes through the door is safe, cared for and succeeds- academically, socially and emotionally,” Kenney said.
“The Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi is truly changing lives each and every day,“ Kenney said.
Donations can still be made by going online to www.bgcnms.org or mailing a payment to Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi, P.O. Box 1098, Tupelo, MS 38802. More information about the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi is available at bgcnms.org.
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This screenshot shows the Lee County website's landing page as of May 2, 2022. The site has not been updated since late 2015. County officials are being pressured to update the site and begin posting the agendas for their regular meetings.
TUPELO • Lee County supervisors are considering reviving the county's long-dead website after a local political advocacy organizer requested more transparency online.
On Monday, Dinetia Newman, an organizer with the political advocacy organization Indivisible Northeast Mississippi, asked the board of supervisors to place agendas online ahead of meetings. She said this would increase transparency about the topics being discussed by county leaders and would likely bolster attendance at the meetings as well.
“I think that would encourage more attendance and participation by Lee County citizens,” she said.
The board asked if the county could post the agenda on the county website, and County Administrator Bill Benson said the county had not maintained the website since former administrator Sean Thompson was away from work about half-a-year in 2015 after suffering a stroke. He retired in 2017.
Board President District 1 Supervisor Phil Morgan supported the idea of revamping and relaunching the county's website, adding that he wasn't opposed to putting agendas online.
Following the meeting, Benson said the county would check out its options.
Three Rivers Planning & Development District currently maintains a variety of Lee County records on its website. Benson said he would reach out to the nonprofit to see if they would help revive the county's website for them.
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Benson said if Three Rivers could not update the site, the board could hire a company to do the upgrades.
“It is not going to be done by the next meeting, but I am going to work on it,” he said.
Benson also floated the idea of creating a Lee County Facebook page on which to release the agenda.
Currently, the county board emails the agenda for their regular meetings to anyone who requests them.
Newman said the May 2 meeting agenda was not emailed to her until 8 a.m. for the 9 a.m. meeting. She told the Daily Journal that she would have missed the meeting had she not checked her email.
Having a site in which anyone can access the agenda without having to request it would be a good first step in promoting civic engagement, Newman said.
“(Board of Supervisors Secretary Teresa Williams) does send me a copy of the agenda,” she said. “ I appreciate that, but I think that needs to be more broadly viewed and available. If they follow through with making their website more informational, they will need to put not only the agenda but also the supporting documents.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee announced dates to his last tour with a stop in Portland this August.
According to the Rose Quarter’s website, the global music icon’s farewell tour, “La Ultima Vuelta” (The Last Round), was announced along with last album, “Legendaddy.” The artist posted a heartfelt message to his fans on his website announcing his retirement from the music industry.
“… The five month trek includes some of the rapper-songwriter’s biggest headline shows in North America and Latin America to date,” the Rose Quarter’s website states.
Daddy Yankee is known for popular songs such as, “Gasolina” and “Dura.”
The concert is set for 8 p.m. on Wednesday, August 10. Tickets and more information are available here.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There are hundreds of coffee shops in Portland. But perhaps none is more unique than a coffee shop at the Downtown Transit Mall that not only serves coffee but offers a piece of Portland history.
Near the corner of SW 5th and Salmon, Ryan Jie Jiang is living his dream of owning his own coffee shop, Less and More — less mystery, more coffee. It’s inside the last 1970s style glass-enclosed, bronze appointed bus shelter on the transit mall.
“I didn’t know until I start selling coffee and a lot of customers telling me that, ‘Oh, I have memories here. I used to catch the bus with my grandmother,'” Jiang told KOIN 6 News. “It was like the ’70’s, and I feel a little grateful to have someone’s memories and remind them of their childhood.”
Before 2007, most all bus shelters in Portland looked like the Less and More coffee shop — and many included a pay phone. But when the transit mall was rebuilt between 2007 and 2009 to accommodate buses and the MAX, the old bus shelters were replaced by the modern versions currently in use.
Tad Savinar, a design consultant for TriMet, came up with the idea to preserve one and turn it into a coffee shop. It’s had different owners over the years.
“As you can see it’s a great, classic bus station, one and only left in Portland,” said Jiang, who took it over in the fall of 2021. “Every day, we see more and more customers.”
They come for the fresh roasted coffee and signature drinks like Tiramisu Latte.
At Less and More, the coffee comes with a bonus of nostalgia.
The bronze and other materials from the old bus shelters were recycled. But you can still see the oval outlines of those old shelters in the bricks throughout the transit mall.
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Woods Aitken LLP, along with the Lincoln Human Resource Management Association and the Lincoln Journal Star, have announced the finalists for the 2022 Best Places to Work in Lincoln awards.
The awards are determined based on the results of the Best Places to Work in Lincoln survey conducted earlier this year.
Finalists are split into four categories based on workforce size, with three finalists each in the small, medium and large categories. Because of a tie, the extra-large category has four finalists.
The final rankings for each category will be announced at an awards celebration on June 16 at Haymarket Park. Reservations can be made through June 2 at woodsaitken.com/bptw .
Here are this year's nominees, listed in alphabetical order in each category:
Small Companies (10-24 employees) : Complete Hearing, Custom Blinds & Design, KidGlov.
Medium Companies (25-49 employees) : Don't Panic Labs, Region V Systems, RentVision.
Large Companies (50-149 employees) : CompanyCam, Edward Jones, UNICO Group.
Extra Large Companies (150+ employees) : Commonwealth Electric Company of the Midwest, Community Action Partnership of Lancaster & Saunders Counties, Nelnet, Olsson.
Highest paying jobs in Lincoln that require a graduate degree
Highest paying jobs in Lincoln that require a graduate degree
Those with graduate degrees earn more on average than those without them—but not all jobs are equal. And while rising tuition costs are enough to turn people away from the prospect of a master’s or doctoral degree, many high-paying professions still require such degrees to get in the door. Stacker compiled a list of the highest- paying jobs that require a graduate degree in Lincoln, NE using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Jobs are ranked by 2020 annual mean wage.
The best way to guarantee a high return on investment in a graduate degree is to be aware of professions that pay top-dollar for that added educational investment. Keep reading to see where a graduate degree is required—and can earn you the most.
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#42. Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $48,930 (#327 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 300
National
- Annual mean salary: $62,320 (292,230 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA ($91,420)
--- El Centro, CA ($91,110)
--- Fresno, CA ($90,860)
Job description: Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.
VH-studio // Shutterstock
#41. Healthcare social workers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $51,830 (#269 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 140
National
- Annual mean salary: $60,470 (176,110 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($100,410)
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($98,980)
--- Salinas, CA ($95,690)
Job description: Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family caregivers. Provide patients with information and counseling, and make referrals for other services. May also provide case and care management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.
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#40. Survey researchers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $52,480 (#27 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 60
National
- Annual mean salary: $66,960 (10,350 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD ($95,010)
--- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($87,810)
--- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV ($87,570)
Job description: Plan, develop, or conduct surveys. May analyze and interpret the meaning of survey data, determine survey objectives, or suggest or test question wording. Includes social scientists who primarily design questionnaires or supervise survey teams.
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#39. Instructional coordinators
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $54,260 (#282 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 90
National
- Annual mean salary: $70,160 (174,900 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- New Haven, CT ($111,440)
--- Warner Robins, GA ($110,800)
--- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA ($104,000)
Job description: Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology into instruction in order to provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses. May train and coach teachers. Includes educational consultants and specialists, and instructional material directors.
Simon Fraser Universtiy // flickr
#38. Biochemists and biophysicists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $59,640 (#47 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 50
National
- Annual mean salary: $104,810 (32,010 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($145,020)
--- Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN ($132,280)
--- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI ($131,720)
Job description: Study the chemical composition or physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena. May conduct research to further understanding of the complex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproduction, growth, and heredity. May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.
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#37. Foreign language and literature teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $59,700 (#63 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $80,410 (22,790 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA ($129,500)
--- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($122,220)
--- Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA ($118,390)
Job description: Teach languages and literature courses in languages other than English. Includes teachers of American Sign Language (ASL). Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Shane Global // flickr
#36. Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $62,750 (#254 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 170
National
- Annual mean salary: $89,290 (111,320 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Santa Rosa, CA ($138,550)
--- Jefferson City, MO ($133,640)
--- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($125,020)
Job description: Assess, diagnose, and treat mental and emotional disorders of individuals through observation, interview, and psychological tests. Help individuals with distress or maladjustment understand their problems through their knowledge of case history, interviews with patients, and theory. Provide individual or group counseling services to assist individuals in achieving more effective personal, social, educational, and vocational development and adjustment. May design behavior modification programs and consult with medical personnel regarding the best treatment for patients.
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#35. Area, ethnic, and cultural studies teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $63,970 (#25 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 40
National
- Annual mean salary: $88,790 (9,960 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($143,090)
--- Rochester, NY ($133,150)
--- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA ($121,010)
Job description: Teach courses pertaining to the culture and development of an area, an ethnic group, or any other group, such as Latin American studies, women's studies, or urban affairs. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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#34. Chiropractors
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $65,460 (#108 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $83,830 (34,760 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA ($273,530)
--- Raleigh, NC ($149,430)
--- New Orleans-Metairie, LA ($139,970)
Job description: Assess, treat, and care for patients by manipulation of spine and musculoskeletal system. May provide spinal adjustment or address sacral or pelvic misalignment.
KSai23 // Shutterstock
#33. English language and literature teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $66,850 (#74 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 160
National
- Annual mean salary: $81,340 (64,800 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($141,420)
--- Fresno, CA ($130,580)
--- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA ($121,510)
Job description: Teach courses in English language and literature, including linguistics and comparative literature. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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#32. Urban and regional planners
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $67,310 (#107 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 50
National
- Annual mean salary: $79,410 (38,190 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($109,910)
--- Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA ($108,860)
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($107,810)
Job description: Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.
Knight Foundation // Wikimedia Commons
#31. Social work teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $69,860 (#26 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $78,110 (13,580 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Ann Arbor, MI ($110,520)
--- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($104,020)
--- Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY ($97,490)
Job description: Teach courses in social work. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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#30. Nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $70,200 (#88 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 100
National
- Annual mean salary: $84,060 (61,100 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL ($145,990)
--- Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH ($120,040)
--- Savannah, GA ($117,610)
Job description: Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Suzannekweiss // Wikimedia Commons
#29. Statisticians
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $70,410 (#88 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 80
National
- Annual mean salary: $97,170 (38,860 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($127,080)
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($120,850)
--- Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH ($118,900)
Job description: Develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields such as biostatistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, or economic statistics. Includes mathematical and survey statisticians.
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#28. Philosophy and religion teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $74,640 (#49 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 40
National
- Annual mean salary: $90,160 (22,900 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA ($140,300)
--- Providence-Warwick, RI-MA ($119,520)
--- Charlottesville, VA ($112,640)
Job description: Teach courses in philosophy, religion, and theology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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#27. Mathematical science teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $76,110 (#63 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 90
National
- Annual mean salary: $86,760 (49,550 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($147,770)
--- Fresno, CA ($129,330)
--- Ann Arbor, MI ($126,580)
Job description: Teach courses pertaining to mathematical concepts, statistics, and actuarial science and to the application of original and standardized mathematical techniques in solving specific problems and situations. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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#26. Speech-language pathologists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $76,450 (#202 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $83,240 (148,450 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Modesto, CA ($128,540)
--- Santa Rosa, CA ($120,920)
--- Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA ($115,480)
Job description: Assess and treat persons with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. May select alternative communication systems and teach their use. May perform research related to speech and language problems.
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#25. Communications teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $78,090 (#34 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $80,940 (28,430 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($143,510)
--- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA ($127,650)
--- Fresno, CA ($122,590)
Job description: Teach courses in communications, such as organizational communications, public relations, radio/television broadcasting, and journalism. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Simon Fraser Universtiy // flickr
#24. Education teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $79,040 (#35 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 400
National
- Annual mean salary: $75,010 (57,560 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Salt Lake City, UT ($104,950)
--- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA ($103,700)
--- Stockton-Lodi, CA ($100,980)
Job description: Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Fabrice Florin // flickr
#23. Veterinarians
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $82,980 (#244 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 90
National
- Annual mean salary: $108,350 (73,710 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX ($169,220)
--- Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT ($150,370)
--- Akron, OH ($150,330)
Job description: Diagnose, treat, or research diseases and injuries of animals. Includes veterinarians who conduct research and development, inspect livestock, or care for pets and companion animals.
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#22. Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $84,430 (#91 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 50
National
- Annual mean salary: $101,800 (126,110 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($143,800)
--- New Haven, CT ($142,330)
--- Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT ($136,230)
Job description: Conduct research dealing with the understanding of human diseases and the improvement of human health. Engage in clinical investigation, research and development, or other related activities.
National Eye Institute // Flickr
#21. Psychology teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $85,240 (#50 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 60
National
- Annual mean salary: $89,960 (36,520 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Santa Rosa, CA ($199,070)
--- Bakersfield, CA ($131,290)
--- Fresno, CA ($129,550)
Job description: Teach courses in psychology, such as child, clinical, and developmental psychology, and psychological counseling. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Fae // Wikimedia Commons
#20. Occupational therapists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $87,140 (#137 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 190
National
- Annual mean salary: $87,480 (126,610 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- The Villages, FL ($115,920)
--- Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV ($115,060)
--- Modesto, CA ($112,870)
Job description: Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.
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#19. Physical therapists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $87,180 (#229 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 330
National
- Annual mean salary: $91,680 (220,870 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- El Centro, CA ($143,500)
--- Modesto, CA ($123,370)
--- Visalia-Porterville, CA ($119,510)
Job description: Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.
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#18. Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $87,640 (#27 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $84,780 (91,170 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($122,920)
--- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI ($115,740)
--- Rochester, NY ($115,080)
Job description: Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Pressmaster // Shutterstock
#17. Biological science teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $90,130 (#54 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 180
National
- Annual mean salary: $101,320 (51,500 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR ($195,730)
--- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA ($161,980)
--- Salt Lake City, UT ($147,290)
Job description: Teach courses in biological sciences. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Jacob Lund // Shutterstock
#16. Health specialties teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $98,860 (#50 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 180
National
- Annual mean salary: $124,890 (200,040 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT ($211,500)
--- Jackson, MS ($195,830)
--- Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA ($176,930)
Job description: Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.
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#15. Chemistry teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $100,560 (#23 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 60
National
- Annual mean salary: $94,630 (21,530 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ($140,380)
--- Salt Lake City, UT ($136,630)
--- College Station-Bryan, TX ($136,080)
Job description: Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include providing instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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#14. Physics teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $100,640 (#26 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $101,290 (13,670 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Rochester, NY ($160,370)
--- College Station-Bryan, TX ($148,480)
--- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA ($141,180)
Job description: Teach courses pertaining to the laws of matter and energy. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Jacob Lund // Shutterstock
#13. Nurse practitioners
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $101,410 (#300 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 310
National
- Annual mean salary: $114,510 (211,280 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($188,070)
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($177,800)
--- Salinas, CA ($155,310)
Job description: Diagnose and treat acute, episodic, or chronic illness, independently or as part of a healthcare team. May focus on health promotion and disease prevention. May order, perform, or interpret diagnostic tests such as lab work and x rays. May prescribe medication. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education.
Monkey Business Images // Shutterstock
#12. Engineering teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $102,390 (#27 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 70
National
- Annual mean salary: $114,130 (38,520 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- College Station-Bryan, TX ($162,430)
--- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV ($142,380)
--- Austin-Round Rock, TX ($141,860)
Job description: Teach courses pertaining to the application of physical laws and principles of engineering for the development of machines, materials, instruments, processes, and services. Includes teachers of subjects such as chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, mineral, and petroleum engineering. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
GaudiLab // Shutterstock
#11. Education administrators, kindergarten through secondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $104,200 (#104 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 170
National
- Annual mean salary: $103,010 (262,480 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Modesto, CA ($154,970)
--- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ($146,070)
--- Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT ($145,590)
Job description: Plan, direct, or coordinate the academic, administrative, or auxiliary activities of kindergarten, elementary, or secondary schools.
David Bibo // Wikimedia Commons
#10. Optometrists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $106,160 (#122 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 40
National
- Annual mean salary: $125,440 (36,690 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Columbia, SC ($228,340)
--- New Haven, CT ($186,950)
--- Evansville, IN-KY ($182,980)
Job description: Diagnose, manage, and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system. Examine eyes and visual system, diagnose problems or impairments, prescribe corrective lenses, and provide treatment. May prescribe therapeutic drugs to treat specific eye conditions.
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#9. Physician assistants
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $114,190 (#143 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 190
National
- Annual mean salary: $116,080 (125,280 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Salinas, CA ($168,220)
--- Waterbury, CT ($165,230)
--- Portsmouth, NH-ME ($158,020)
Job description: Provide healthcare services typically performed by a physician, under the supervision of a physician. Conduct complete physicals, provide treatment, and counsel patients. May, in some cases, prescribe medication. Must graduate from an accredited educational program for physician assistants.
Ohiodominican // Wikimedia Commons
#8. Business teachers, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $116,430 (#33 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 220
National
- Annual mean salary: $107,270 (79,810 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Ann Arbor, MI ($174,050)
--- College Station-Bryan, TX ($172,650)
--- Durham-Chapel Hill, NC ($149,740)
Job description: Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor and industrial relations, marketing, and operations research. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Matej Kastelic // Shutterstock
#7. Lawyers
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $116,540 (#151 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 610
National
- Annual mean salary: $148,910 (658,120 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA ($231,610)
--- San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA ($201,920)
--- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV ($186,070)
Job description: Represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and other legal proceedings, draw up legal documents, or manage or advise clients on legal transactions. May specialize in a single area or may practice broadly in many areas of law.
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#6. Pharmacists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $122,210 (#243 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 290
National
- Annual mean salary: $125,460 (315,470 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Madera, CA ($165,350)
--- Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA ($162,540)
--- Vallejo-Fairfield, CA ($161,120)
Job description: Dispense drugs prescribed by physicians and other health practitioners and provide information to patients about medications and their use. May advise physicians and other health practitioners on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications.
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#5. Dentists, general
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $125,550 (#247 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 120
National
- Annual mean salary: $180,830 (95,920 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Dover-Durham, NH-ME ($286,540)
--- North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL ($278,790)
--- Portland-South Portland, ME ($278,390)
Job description: Examine, diagnose, and treat diseases, injuries, and malformations of teeth and gums. May treat diseases of nerve, pulp, and other dental tissues affecting oral hygiene and retention of teeth. May fit dental appliances or provide preventive care.
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#4. Education administrators, postsecondary
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $135,040 (#29 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 260
National
- Annual mean salary: $115,200 (140,880 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Master’s degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Ithaca, NY ($205,810)
--- Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC ($178,210)
--- Charlottesville, VA ($176,040)
Job description: Plan, direct, or coordinate student instruction, administration, and services, as well as other research and educational activities, at postsecondary institutions, including universities, colleges, and junior and community colleges.
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#3. Family medicine physicians
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $228,760 (#108 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 130
National
- Annual mean salary: $214,370 (98,590 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA ($309,800)
--- Napa, CA ($302,040)
--- Gadsden, AL ($292,110)
Job description: Diagnose, treat, and provide preventive care to individuals and families across the lifespan. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further diagnosis or treatment.
Canva
#2. General internal medicine physicians
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $268,380 (#18 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: data not available
National
- Annual mean salary: $210,960 (50,600 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Rochester, MN ($315,830)
--- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC ($314,080)
--- Wichita Falls, TX ($311,260)
Job description: Diagnose and provide nonsurgical treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults and adolescents, and are based primarily in an outpatient care setting.
Canva
#1. Surgeons, except ophthalmologists
Lincoln, NE
- Annual mean salary: $296,150 (#3 highest pay among all metros)
- Employment: 60
National
- Annual mean salary: $251,650 (37,900 employed)
- Entry level education requirements: Doctoral or professional degree
- Metros with highest average pay:
--- Sioux City, IA-NE-SD ($305,480)
--- Akron, OH ($297,710)
--- Lincoln, NE ($296,150)
Job description: Diagnose and perform surgery to treat and prevent rheumatic and other diseases in the musculoskeletal system.
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Franklin's Treasures and Treats, which was started in a former Ben Franklin location by the same family that owned the last Lincoln location in the chain, has closed.
"With heavy hearts we are announcing the closure of Franklin's Treasures and Treats," the store said in a Facebook post on Saturday, which was its last day in business.
The store is planning to reopen at 10 a.m. Wednesday at its location at 920 N. 70th St. in the Meadowlane Shoppping Center for a closing sale.
Franklin's Treasures and Treats opened in November 2017, about a year and a half after Carol Schoenleber, whose family had run Ben Franklin stores in Lincoln for half a century, closed the last Lincoln location of the five-and-dime chain.
The new store, which had some of the same type of inventory as Ben Franklin's, was a family affair as well, with Schoenleber running it along with her husband and daughter.
Kelsey Schoenleber said in an email that there were a couple of reasons behind the decision to close the store.
For one, she's now moved out of state and isn't around to help with the store anymore. The store's lease also is expiring, "and we didn't want to sign another five-year lease with the uncertainty of retail these days."
For smaller businesses like us, prices on products have gone way up," Kelsey Schoenleber said. "Companies we have ordered from for the last 10-20 years, who never had a price increase during that time, have now had two to three price increases in the last year. We just felt it was a good time to step away."
As forecasters monitored the likelihood of severe weather developing, Charles Herbster said he was in contact with Donald Trump, who along with the former president’s pilots and the weather service decided to postpone his appearance.
Both drivers were headed in opposite directions on 70th Street at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when they collided near Revere Lane, one block south of Pine Lake Road, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
The Lincoln property owner awoke to a knock on her door in the hours after the March 19 fire, which investigators initially ruled an accidental electrical fire. Immediately, she suspected that assessment was wrong.
Haroon Sediqi, a 57-year-old Lincoln man, was pronounced dead at Bryan West Campus shortly after crashing Tuesday near 70th Street and Revere Lane, the sheriff's office said.
Deputies say the 30-year-old entered the unlocked business at 3705 S. Coddington Avenue and threw trash cans and chairs around, flipping equipment and spray-painting the building's exterior.
Two days before Kayla Matulka would be found stabbed and strangled, engagement photos of a seemingly happy couple were posted to their shared Facebook page. But texts and Internet phone searches showed a stormier reality.
Following the overnight closure, northbound and southbound traffic on U.S. 77 will use the new traffic lanes and bridge, just east of the existing traffic lanes.
On Thursday, students were prepping for the Electronphonic concert when new LPS Superintendent Paul Gausman came in, climbed onto a drum set and walked students through some beats.
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DRIGGS, Idaho — Editor's note: the attached video is from KTVB's previous reporting of the movie screen being pushed over by heavy winds.
In a Facebook post Monday morning, the Spud Drive-In announced that the business will delay reopening until 2023.
The company stated that the delay is caused by supply chain issues for building materials and having to upgrade their 70-year-old blueprints to modern standards.
The company also stated that once they reopen they will "throw one of the greatest parties the Teton Valley has ever experienced!"
The announcement comes approximately a month after the iconic drive-in movie theater's 70-foot-tall screen blew down during a heavy windstorm.
The screen went up when the Spud Drive-In was built between 1953 and 1955.
The theater, located along Highway 33 between Driggs and Victor, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Documentation for the register describes the Spud as an "excellent and intact example of an outdoor automobile-oriented venue for the display of motion pictures."
"It brings our community together. I mean, people come and it's a place where people are happy and they can relax and kids are welcome and dogs are welcome and it's just a place that people feel good," said Katie Mumm the manager of the Spud.
Movies are shown at The Spud during the warmer months.
Sections were added to the screen tower in 1955 to widen the screen so it could accommodate films made in Cinemascope. A large billboard on the back of the screen tower looks like an Idaho license plate.
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JOHNSON CTY, NY – Today marks the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan.
Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr today, May 2nd. Those who celebrated Ramadan fasted from dawn to dusk every day for thirty-days; meaning no food, water, or intimacy within that time.
Ramadan is a time to reflect on your own spirituality and to step into the shoes of someone who may not have “simple” resources such as food and drink.
Eid is a day to come together as a community and surround yourself with friends, family, food, and festivities.
However; despite the Eid celebration and festivities, many are already looking forward to next year.
Practicing Muslim, Mus’ab Azam says, “Everyone feels sad that Ramadan ended. Cause it’s not a hard month, it’s a month that everyone looks forward to. It’s a month that everyone can’t wait for, it’s a month that everyone prepares for. Throughout the year they wait for that month. So when you’re leaving Ramadan, when Ramadan is ending, you feel sadness inside yourself that this great holy month is ending and you can’t wait for the next one to start again next year.”
Following a morning prayer, some of the festivities include bounce houses, balloon blowing competitions, and tasty food.
The celebration today, on May 2nd, at the Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier, took over fifty-volunteers and five-days to prepare properly. Organizers estimate that there was roughly three-thousand people in attendance.
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'Aggressive' Assateague Island horse permanently relocated to Texas sanctuary
The National Park Service said an "aggressive horse" has been relocated from Assateague Island National Seashore to a wildlife sanctuary.
The harem stallion Delegate's Pride — N6ELS-H, also known as "Chip" — has "become extremely aggressive" to visitors and staff in pursuit of human food or when staff try to redirect him or his band away from crowds, according to a Monday NPS news release.
The horse has been involved in more than half of the incidents since 2017 that have resulted in injuries for visitors, the NPS said. He is also resistant to non-contact methods park staff use to move other horses out of potentially dangerous situations.
More:Assateague pony dies after eating dog food
Delegate's Pride has been permanently moved to the Cleveland Armory Black Beauty Ranch, a wildlife sanctuary in Murchison, Texas.
"Unfortunately, reversing behavior once a wild animal has learned to associate people with food is extremely difficult. Removal often becomes the only option to manage a highly food conditioned animal, especially one causing the majority of negative and dangerous interactions with the public. We do not take these decisions lightly, but occasionally it is necessary for the safety of visitors and staff," the NPS wrote.
The Superintendent's Compendium dated May 2022 will soon include updated food storage regulations for campers on Assateague Island.
More:Officials: Don't leave the water on for ponies
More:Assateague horses love a 'pic-a-nic' basket. But save them from deadly human, pet food
Visitors are urged to take a proactive role in protecting the horses by complying with rules and regulations like the following:
- Store food in a vehicle or in a strapped cooler placed inside the food storage under all picnic tables.
- Maintain a distance of at least 40 feet from horses.
- Never feed wildlife.
“All visitors need to take this food storage issue seriously and help us reduce the frequency of inappropriate interactions with the wild horses. The free roaming nature of the Assateague horses is what makes them so unique and special, but there are also issues like this that need to be addressed,” Superintendent Hugh Hawthorne said in a statement.
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Here’s how one lucky Maryland Lottery player on the Shore won $50,000.
Two Eastern Shore players struck it rich in Maryland Lottery winnings announced this week.
A scratch-off VIP Club ticket worth $50,000 was sold at Thirsty’s, 9534 Ocean Highway in Delmar, in the week ending May 1, Maryland Lottery announced.
A Salisbury player won $10,000 via a Big Cash Riches ticket sold at Express Mart, 617 N. Salisbury Blvd.
More: Assateague horse Delegate's Pride (aka Chip) is relocating to a Texas wildlife sanctuary
The week’s biggest winner was a scratch-off player in Bladensburg who landed a $500,000 prize last week, while three other scratch-off tickets purchased in Brooklyn Park, Riverdale and Takoma Park each paid $100,000.
In all, 27 tickets worth $10,000 or more were either sold or redeemed in the seven days ending May 1, and the Lottery paid a total of nearly $32.4 million in prizes.
More: 'American Idol': See Jay Copeland win with 'magic' take on 'Remember Me' on Disney night
Winners of prizes larger than $25,000 must redeem their tickets at the Maryland Lottery Customer Resource Center in Baltimore, which is open by appointment only. Prizes of up to $5,000 can be claimed at any of more than 400 Expanded Cashing Authority Program (XCAP) locations. All Maryland Lottery retailers are authorized to redeem tickets up to and including $600.
More information is available on the How To Claim page of mdlottery.com.
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18-year-old charged with murder in January shooting in Pawtucket
PAWTUCKET – Police on Monday charged an 18-year-old local man with the shooting death in January of a Cumberland man on Carnation Street.
Elijah Soto, of Cato Avenue, was arraigned in District Court, Providence, and charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, using a firearm while committing a crime of violence, and carrying a pistol without a license, police said.
More:Victim of fatal Pawtucket shooting identified as Cumberland man
He was held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions.
Jovani L. Velez, 28, of Cumberland, died after being shot near the intersection of Carnation Street and Broadway on the evening of Jan. 30, police said.
First responders took him to Rhode Island Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Police at the time asked anyone with knowledge about the shooting to contact Pawtucket detectives.
After "an extensive investigation," police said, and with the assistance of the attorney general’s office, the Pawtucket police major crime unit sought an arrest warrant last month for Soto "for his involvement in the homicide."
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'A crisis': Record number of Rhode Islanders died from accidental drug overdoses in 2021
More Rhode Islanders died of accidental drug overdoses in 2021 than any other year on record, according to the state Department of Health.
Last year, 435 residents died of accidental overdoses, up from the previous high of 384, set in 2020, according to Health Department figures. The figure for 2021 is expected to go even higher when the Office of the State Medical Examiners completes its analysis of December deaths.
"It is a crisis," said Colleen Daley Ndoye, executive director of Project Weber/RENEW, an organization that works to protect drug users from harm.
Fentanyl causes 75% of overdose deaths
Joseph Wendelken, a spokesman for the Rhode Island Department of Health, said, "The trend in Rhode Island mirrors increases that are being seen nationally."
Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, drove the high numbers, according to Ndoye and Wendelken. Fentanyl plays a role in about 75% of overdose deaths in Rhode Island, Wendelken said.
"We're seeing fentanyl in all sorts of different street drugs," Ndoye said.
More:Pawtucket man, 32, accused of supplying drugs in fatal overdose
Originally developed to treat pain for cancer patients, fentanyl is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
"Powdered fentanyl looks just like many other drugs," Wendelken said. "It is commonly mixed with substances like cocaine, crack, methamphetamine and heroin and made into counterfeit pills that look like prescription medicines. Anyone who uses drugs, even occasionally, may be at risk of an overdose."
Cocaine deaths have increased
Wendleken noted that about 50% of the fatal overdoses last year involved cocaine, compared to about 37% in 2017.
Fentanyl is dangerous even for those who know they're taking it, according to Ndoye, because the supply is "so unstable," with the dosage potentially higher than the user thinks.
Wendelken acknowledged that "the stressors and increased isolation of COVID-19 may have been a factor in the increases in fatal overdoses," but he noted that overdose deaths were climbing before Rhode Island saw its first case of COVID.
Access to treatment a challenge
Access to treatment is a continuing challenge, according to Ndoye. "There's not enough treatment beds," she said, and oftentimes insurance coverage determines the length of a patient's stay, in many cases forcing them to leave before they're ready.
As bad as the overdose numbers are, they could have been worse, Ndoye says. Naloxone, a medicine that reverses opioid overdose, has become widely available in recent years and has saved many lives.
More:4 overdoses in 8 hours prompt East Providence police to issue warning
Teenage overdose deaths in the US:Despite drug usage falling, study finds deaths are spiking
As an example, Project Weber/RENEW, which partners with the Health Department, distributed 10,000 doses of naloxone between February 2020 and November 2021. The organization estimates that 25% of the doses were used "to save a life," Ndoye said. It can take several doses to revive an overdose victim, but "you're still looking at quite literally hundreds of people," she said.
Ndoye's organization has about 20 employees who work directly with people in Providence, Central Falls and Pawtucket. The organization has drop-in centers and also drives into the communities in vans.
Naloxone, fentanyl test strips used for harm reduction
The workers can help people get into treatment, but not everyone is ready, and in those cases, they focus on harm reduction. They distribute naloxone and fentanyl test strips, among other tools, to help keep people safe, according to Ndoye.
Family or friends who are concerned about someone's drug use can take similar measures, according to Ndoye. The website preventocerdoseri.org provides information on safe drug use, where to get naloxone and numbers to call for help in getting treatment.
Overdose prevention training
On May 17, from 5 to 6 p.m. at the News Cafe, 43 Broad St., Pawtucket, Project Weber/RENEW will offer overdose-prevention training to show people "how to be safer with fentanyl and get free naloxone (Narcan) and fentanyl test strips."
According to Wendelken, the state is taking multiple steps to address the problem, an effort coordinated by the Rhode Island Governor's Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force, in partnership with several community organizations.
A significant effort is the development of harm reduction centers, where people will be able to get referrals to treatment for substance-use disorder and also access to safer drug use supplies, such as sterile injection supplies and fentanyl test strips, according to Wendelken.
People will be able to use previously obtained drugs at the sites, he said, with staff members there to monitor them.
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
There are two parts to the controller’s job, Malia Cohen says.
There are the everyday functions — writing checks, conducting audits, making policy recommendations and serving on nearly 80 boards, including ones that oversee state employee retirement funds.
But Cohen says the position is also a platform to make California more equitable and to promote more diverse leadership — goals that she is passionate, even emotional, about and a role that she says she is well prepared for from her time on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and state Board of Equalization.
“I think that we do need to elect strong people with strong values that are not afraid to stand up and are not afraid to speak out,” the Democratic candidate told CalMatters reporters and editors.
“I think that we need to have more diversity, I think we need to have more conversations about equity, what that looks like in the distribution of tax dollars….I don’t want to see strong programs, child care programs, educational programs after-school programs, food programs not get funded because they don’t have a lobbyist, they don’t have an advocate.”
Cohen says the state’s response to COVID revealed the dire, sometimes deadly, consequences of ignoring communities of color.
“I’m going to make sure that we learn from the mistakes from the pandemic,” she said. “Why did it happen? Because the constituency that I represented where I come from — people suffered, people died, people got sick, people lost their jobs. And I saw people coming to a side of the town that they would not normally come into just to get vaccination, cutting the line.”
If Cohen convinces enough voters that she’s the right candidate, she would be the second controller in a row to move up from the Board of Equalization, following Betty Yee, who has served two terms and is no longer eligible to run for re-election. But first, she has to finish among the top two vote-getters in a competitive June 7 primary just to make it to the November general election.
Here are three other key takeaways from her CalMatters interview:
Cohen’s vision
A controller’s role is to ensure the state is spending its money wisely, including cutting waste. But what does that mean to the average person?
“I explain it like, well, I make sure that big corporations like Amazon don’t snake through loopholes and that they’re paying their fair share when it comes to property taxes,” Cohen said. “I say making sure that corporations like PG&E…[are] paying their fair share in taxes. Small taxpayers, people who own their homes, they’re paying their taxes, and we want to be very fair and very consistent and also transparent.”
As chairperson of the Board of Equalization, Cohen has overseen the distribution of $80 billion in tax revenue to local governments and schools. She also cut spending on office space and launched an initiative in 2019 to modernize property tax collection.
She pledges to continue the watchdog role as controller, saying that she wants to scrutinize the Employment Development Department and the Department of Motor Vehicles, plus the state’s homelessness programs. Cohen also intends to audit companies receiving research and development tax credits to ensure the jobs promised are being created. She also wants to advance pay equity, beginning with a review of the controller’s office, according to her equity roadmap.
“I am running to say, ‘I’m here, I’m in this space, I’m at the table and I’m watching and I am going to keep people accountable,’” she said.
Cohen says she will also give the public critical analysis on issues such as abortion, housing and tax policy — and do more so taxpayers know where their money is going.
“I could be lazy, I could just sit back and do just the bare minimum of the requirements,” she said. “And quite honestly, as I’ve been talking about this race and my vision for the controller seat, a lot of people have not been receptive of a big picture of what a controller’s office could actually be, and I’ve been told that I’m running for the wrong position. And I vehemently disagree.”
Policy stances?
Despite seeing an expanded policy role for the controller, Cohen did not take a stand on some pressing issues now before the Legislature, such as another stimulus payment, or a pause on the gas tax.
Instead, she focused on the administrative functions, pledging to “get those checks to Californians as quickly and as efficiently as possible, ensuring that there isn’t any fraud, any loss or anyone receiving money when they don’t qualify.”
Cohen also didn’t take a stand on whether the state’s public pension funds ought to divest from Russian companies in response to the invasion of Ukraine. She said she needed more information first.
As for projections that the state won’t be able to pay all the pensions it has committed to public employees, Cohen acknowledges the competing interests that need to be weighed. “State employees that have worked really hard, teachers that have worked really hard, I do believe that they should be able to retire and to count on their retirement,” she said.
At the same time, Cohen notes, the state can’t continue to rely on always having a robust budget.
“I am concerned about the fiscal health for the state of California, just the economic direction that we’re going to be going in,” she said. “I don’t see it as a sustainable long-term strategy.”
Working with fellow Democrats
Since 1975, voters have elected only Democrats to the office. Cohen has the official party endorsement. One of her primary challengers, Republican Lanhee Chen, is promising to be an independent watchdog on the Democratic Legislature and administration.
While Cohen said her party affiliation won’t hurt her effectiveness in the job, she plans a more collaborative approach.
“My style is not, ‘I got you, aha.’ I’m not trying to catch you in the hot seat,” she said. “I’m not trying to catch you in a lie or even embarrass you. That has never been my leadership style.”
“My style really is if I find an audit and I find something that is glaring or could potentially be embarrassing, talking to the person. Just having an honest conversation and saying, ‘This is what I found, what can we do about this?’”
If elected, Cohen would also become California’s first Black controller, but doesn’t see that affecting how she does the job, either. But she does urge voters to consider her background:
“I think that being the sum total of a different set of life experiences does make me a unique candidate in this race.”
CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.
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Part-time instructors at California’s community colleges have to work multiple jobs to make a living wage, but some still don’t have enough health insurance.
A state fund to aid them hasn’t been increased for decades from $490,000 a year, but now Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to add $200 million annually. While the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office says there’s no data to justify that spending, a union has collected survey information that could help the governor’s case.
The California Federation of Teachers gathered survey results in 2022 from about 2,500 part-time instructors, almost all of them teachers at community colleges — a sizable share of the roughly 35,000 part-timers employed across the state’s sprawling community college system.
The survey shows that 6% of part-time faculty don’t have health insurance from any source. A third of respondents said they receive insurance from a college at which they teach. About a quarter relied on their spouse’s coverage and 17% got theirs from Covered California or Medi-Cal.
Many say they still skip out on vital medical care — an indication that their insurance may be inadequate. Of those who responded, 30% said they did not get a medical test or exam that was recommended by a doctor. Nearly a fifth of respondents said they didn’t fill a prescription for themselves or a dependent and 11% said they cut pills in half or skipped doses.
The data, shared exclusively with CalMatters before being released today, give rare, if incomplete, insight into the health benefits and labor patterns of part-time faculty. Sometimes known in education circles as “freeway flyers” because of the multiple colleges many work at to earn a living wage, these instructors make up most of the teaching faculty in the state’s 116 community colleges but typically earn far less for the same amount of work full-time faculty receive.
The union argues that employers should be providing health insurance, not spouses or public subsidies.
“That’s the cost of having employees,” said Jeffery Freitas, president of the California Federation of Teachers, which represents part-time faculty in about a third of the state’s 73 community college districts, as well as other employees.
In its latest state budget goals, the leadership of the state Senate is assuming Newsom’s $200 million plan passes, though nothing is finalized, said the office of President pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego.
Current health program only gets $490,000 a year
Newsom’s plan is to supercharge a state fund from the 1990s that allows colleges to be partially reimbursed for providing health insurance to part-time faculty.
But that program only receives $490,000 a year, meaning it reimburses districts for pennies on the dollar of the true cost. The state program excludes vision and dental coverage. Districts instead use money from other state and local revenues to provide insurance, but plans vary from covering all of a part-time faculty member’s premium costs to under 30%.
Meanwhile, part-time community college faculty at nearly half the college districts get no employer-provided health insurance, an EdSource investigation found.
A separate analysis by the union suggests that $200 million a year is very close to the amount needed to offer high-quality health insurance to 50% of part-time faculty. The union’s analysis assumes employees wouldn’t pay more than 10% of the premium costs.
The 50% cut-off in the analysis also assumes that currently no district will have more than half of their part-timers eligible for this health insurance because of minimum work requirements. If the program is better funded, it’s likely more faculty will participate.
How the $200 million could help one part-time faculty member
The federation of teachers wants to apply several tweaks to Newsom’s plan before the state budget must be passed by June 15.
One is to allow part time faculty to combine their teaching loads at multiple districts to reach the state program’s minimum 40% threshold of full-time work needed to access health insurance coverage. Currently, an instructor who teaches 20% of a full-time load at two different districts is unable to merge those workloads to receive health insurance. Some colleges choose to require a higher threshold for part-time faculty to access insurance. To get around that, the union also wants to make the 40% threshold the minimum requirement across all colleges. But that rule would apply only to colleges that want to use additional state health insurance dollars if there’s money left over.
Either of those changes would help restore no-cost or affordable health insurance for Juli Jones, likely saving her more than $1,000 a month. Jones is a U.S. history professor at Cuyamaca College in San Diego County. Until last September, she received health insurance from the college’s district, with her employer paying the full premium. But because the college cut her teaching load from five classes to four the past two academic years, she fell below the minimum hour threshold to receive district-paid insurance.
To keep her insurance benefits, she purchased a COBRA plan that costs around $1,370 a month for her and her husband, she said. Due to a health issue, she dialed back her teaching duties at another nearby college district, but in normal times she’d be teaching at both districts to cobble together full-time work.
The pursuit for enough teaching assignments to qualify for benefits “feels like Russian roulette,” Jones said. “It’s like a roller coaster that never stops and I’m always desperately trying to get more sections to feed this thing and keep it going.”
Health insurance is part of bigger picture
At least one lawmaker had argued that the road to better benefits is for more part-time faculty to become tenured. “It’s a no-brainer to me: Why not just hire them full-time, give them the benefits that they deserve as a full-time employee?” asked Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, a Democrat from Long Beach, during a hearing in April. “I’m still struggling with this $200 million concept, because it’s a patch, not a fix.”
But college finance officers last year said declining community college enrollment means locking in money for full-time faculty makes little fiscal sense. Faculty disagreed.
It may seem counterintuitive for unions to vie for better treatment of part-time faculty when they also want more full-time openings at the colleges. But by paying part-time faculty “like you pay full-time faculty” and giving them health care, colleges have no benefit to continue hiring part-time faculty, “so you might as well hire full-time faculty,” Freitas said.
Just about a third of the faculty are full-time with benefits. Not only does that full-time status come with higher pay, but the salaries account for all the work faculty must do outside the classroom to educate their students, such as grading, lesson planning and mentoring students. But rarely do colleges pay part-time faculty for that non-classroom work.
There’s increased pushback to that reality. Two part-time community college faculty are suing Long Beach City College, arguing that the uncompensated work they do outside the classroom violates state minimum wage law. Relatedly, a bill by Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, a Democrat from Los Angeles, would require that colleges pay part-time faculty at a rate equal to what full-time faculty earn. A legislative committee estimates this alone would cost at least $267 million annually.
The new union survey shows that 59% of respondents earn less than $40,000 from their teaching jobs — even though more than half work at least a half of a full teaching load and most want to teach more. Meanwhile, an investigation by EdSource revealed that the average pay for part-time community college faculty is less than $20,000.
Should Covered California insure community college part-time faculty?
Jones, the San Diego-area part-time instructor, is not alone in seeing her teaching load cut. Declining student enrollments have prompted community colleges to shrink the number of classes they offer, leaving less work for non-tenured teachers.
That had the Legislative Analyst’s Office asking whether tying part-time faculty health insurance to college employment makes sense. “Potentially having to change health plans frequently might be less optimal for part-time faculty than remaining insured under Covered California.”
But if the state pours more money into part-time faculty health plans, “unions and the districts may negotiate to improve the benefits currently offered,” said Laurel Lucia, director of the Health Care program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Colleges that already offer health plans to part-time faculty “might reduce the premium amount that the worker is required to pay or they might reduce the amount that people have to pay out of pocket to access care.”
Jones said she’ll sign up with Covered California if her COBRA runs out early next year and her employer health insurance isn’t restored. That’s not ideal, she said, because she’s used to the doctors and care on her current plan, which she may lose under a different insurer.
“But, frankly, if I’m not teaching enough, then the chances of my being able to afford the payment (for Covered California) aren’t very good either,” Jones said.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — DNA from a coyote that bit a girl on Southern California's Huntington Beach last week matched samples from one of two coyotes shot and killed following the attack, authorities said Monday.
The 2-year-old child was hospitalized with bites to her head and face that were not considered life-threatening after she was attacked near the Huntington Beach Pier last Thursday night.
Huntington Beach police responded and shot two coyotes found in the coastal area south of Los Angeles, police Lt. Shawn Randell said.
Samples taken from the girl's wounds were used to confirm that the animal that bit her had been killed, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Capt. Patrick Foy said.
The girl was with her mother on the sand when she wandered “a mere few feet” and was attacked, Foy said last week.
The coyote came out of the dark, hit and knocked over the girl and attacked her for 12 seconds before her cry alerted adults and the animal ran off, Foy said.
However, it stayed around, pacing, before finally fleeing, Foy said.
The family did nothing to antagonize the coyote, he added.
Coyotes are found almost everywhere in California, including cities, and authorities have long warned that small children and pets can be at risk. Last year, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife began workshops to help communities deal with coyotes because of an increase in the number conflicts with people.
Foy said coyotes usually are shy and try to avoid humans. He estimated there are only about 10 to 12 attacks per year around the state, mostly involving smaller children but full-grown adults were attacked in a few cases.
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Millions of dollars in state funding are headed to Placer County to transform a Roseville hotel into permanent housing for the homeless.
On Thursday, Placer County announced that they were awarded $23,516,978 in funding by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
The funding announced Thursday is part of Gov. Gavin Newsom's $68.6 million going towards six new Homekey projects throughout the state.
Homekey is the state’s grant program that followed Project Roomkey, which helped shelter unhoused people in trailers, motels and hotels to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The funding will be used to purchase and convert 82 residential units at the Hampton Inn & Suites Roseville into permanent housing for the homeless. The proposed Roomkey site will be managed by Advocates for Mentally Ill Housing, which is a local nonprofit providing supportive services.
County leaders hope the Homekey project will advance its goal of maintaining the lowest rate of homelessness in Northern California.
“We appreciate the governor and state’s historic investment to support some of our most vulnerable residents — and the collaboration with our City of Roseville and nonprofit partners that allowed us to move quickly and seize on this opportunity,” said District 5 Supervisor and Board Chair Cindy Gustafson.
According to Placer County, the proposed site is located off Interstate-80, in close proximity to various services and amenities.
“This represents a significant expansion of permanent supportive housing options to help address the challenge of homelessness,” said Health and Human Services Director Dr. Rob Oldham. “We’re committed to surround these folks with the supportive services and tools that enable them to be successful, remain housed and lead productive lives.”
Placer County says the Board of Supervisors will discuss the acceptance of the Homekey award during a May 10 meeting.
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RAMONA, Calif. — Cal Fire kicked off wildfire preparedness week at the Ramona Air Attack Base, reminding residents to take precautions as we head into wildfire season.
"We haven't seen a whole of of big fires in San Diego recently, but the grass is all dying, the brush is drying out. Moisture levels are dropping, so we have a lot of potential for a big fire to happen," said Captain Thomas Shoots of Cal Fire.
Monday's event was the first of several events across the state Cal Fire is holding this week. Cal Fire will also hold events in Ventura County, Monterey County, Sonoma County and in Fresno County.
On display Monday were helicopters, airplanes and fire trucks.
Captain Shoots said residents should take advantage of cooler temperatures in the mornings or evenings to clear defensible space around their homes. He encourages everyone to have a go-bag ready and an evacuation plan in place.
This year, Governor Newsom’s proposed budget for CAL FIRE allocates more than $3 billion for fire management, fire prevention, mitigation efforts including prescribed fire and fuel breaks, forest health, and home hardening.
Almost half of the state’s largest and most damaging wildfires occurred in 2020 and 2021, and more than 6.8 million acres burned during this time. Lack of rainfall, with above normal temperatures through the spring, will leave fuel moisture levels lower than normal, increasing the potential for wildland fire activity. In 2022, CAL FIRE has already responded to more than 1,400 wildfires, burning more than 6,500 acres on state and federal lands combined.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The City of Fayetteville announced, Monday, May 2, Mayor Lioneld Jordan is home and recovering from a medical procedure on his heart.
During the week of April 25, Mayor Jordan underwent a medical procedure on his heart but is currently at home recovering, following guidance from his doctor due to an upcoming scheduled second medical procedure taking place soon.
City officials say that Mayor Jordan is anticipated to return to the office within the next few weeks and still is in daily contact with Chief of Staff Susan Norton and his administration.
“Thank you to everyone for your heartfelt concern and well-wishes for Mayor Jordan. At this time, the Mayor is focused on rest and recovery. Staff and I look forward to his return to the office and regular, full-time duties," said Chief of Staff Norton. Until then, we are honoring his request for privacy and limited contact, and we encourage members of our Fayetteville community to do the same.”
City officials say they are following existing protocols for meetings and document approvals to ensure business continues as usual without unnecessary interruption. This includes Vice Mayor Sarah Bunch chairing City Council meetings and agenda sessions.
However, Mayor Jordan remains able to perform the duties of his office through procedures established and updated recently. Any matters considered to be very significant or potentially controversial will receive his direct approval or disapproval before action is taken.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Six passengers were taken to an area hospital after the bus they were riding on was hit by another vehicle in the River Valley.
According to Aric Mitchell with the Fort Smith Police Department, the crash between the Fort Smith Transit bus and the other vehicle happened Monday, May 2 at 2700 Towson Avenue.
Mitchell says he does not believe any of the passengers taken to the hospital have life-threatening injuries.
No citations have been issued at this time and the cause of the crash is still under investigation.
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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — An Immokalee woman died in a two-vehicle crash on State Road 29 in Collier County Monday afternoon.
The crash happened at approximately 2:49 p.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP).
A 26-year-old woman who was driving a sedan was attempting to pass an SUV, driven by a 53-year-old Naples woman. The woman driving the SUV was traveling north on SR-29 leading up to Oil Well Road.
The right front of the sedan smashed into the left side of the SUV.
The sedan overturned many times and the 26-year-old driver was ejected onto the grass shoulder, the incident report shows. She was pronounced dead on scene.
The crash remains under investigation.
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NAPLES, Fla. — More people than ever are turning to consignment stores. Some people just like to sell, others only shop.
You can do both at True Fashionistas in Naples and a lot of people do. In fact, business has grown so much, it had to move to a larger store.
“They walk in here and they’re like oh my gosh! This is massive, it’s huge! They love us. They love our prices,” Jennifer Johnson said.
Johnson is the owner and founder of True Fashionistas; a designer resale consignment store for men, women, children and your home. The new storefront opened on Valentines Day and became the largest lifestyle consignment shop in Florida.
Johnson said ever since the pandemic hit, she noticed a change in the way people shop.
“They can go into a store right now and find the same product they saw six months ago because of the whole supply chain shortage.”
Johnson says you’ll find more unique pieces at her store because there’s only one of everything. People sell to her from all over the country, but you can walk out with the piece you want.
When gas prices first soared in March, Johnson said there was a big boost of consignors looking for extra cash.
It’s why someone wants to sell a 1998 Harley Davidson peddle bicycle collector’s piece or a massive portrait of one of the first Lilly Pulitzer models.
You’ll find a lot of Lilly pulitzer at True Fashionistas.
“This is a Lilly blouse that retails for $148 and you’re getting it for $70. You’re getting it for half price.”
There’s also Chanel shirts, Loui Vuitton bags and a plethora of less expensive brands.
“Zara dress for $17.99,” Johnson said.
The luxury resale business as a whole is having a moment right now.
Bain & Company analysts found the industry brought in more than $37 billion last year. Supply chain issues and a passion for sustainability are two driving factors.
“People are sort of trying to re-use and be conscious of what they’re using and what they’re buying,” shopper Rachel Hanisch said.
Especially from Generation Z.
“Whenever I’m in the area I like to come,” college student McKayla Lyons said.
“I like to thrift shop … it’s good for the environment,” Lyons continued.
But it’s not just the luxury side of thrift thriving. Secondhand stores like Goodwill are too.
“The prices are wonderful and the quality of the clothes are great,” shopper Carol Butler said.
Butler said she’s been shopping at Goodwill for 40 years. Unlike consignment, the products at Goodwill are donated.
However, many shoppers have the same goal: reuse and save money.
Director of Communications and Marketing for Goodwill of Southwest Florida Debra Donatto said they’ve seen an increase in sales, but it’s too early to tell if it’s the economy.
“It makes sense … gas has gone up, food has gone up but our paychecks really haven’t gone up that much,” Donatto said.
She says the increased sales could also be a result of the booming population or trends.
“My daughter who’s 19 use to only shop Hollister and American Eagle and now all she wants to do is go thrift shopping because she loves vintage,” Donatto said.
Goodwill shoppers helped keep more than 50 million pounds of merchandise out of landfills in 2021.
As clientele expands at Goodwill and True Fashionistas, it’s helping push out any remaining stigmas.
That was evident to Johnson, moments before she opened her new location and looked outside.
“I saw about 25 customers standing outside and as they were coming in I literally sat there and cried. And I’m tearing up now … I was astounded by the support of this community,” Johnson said.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Rock's police chief will be stepping down on May 20, according to Mayor Frank Scott Jr.
The mayor made the announcement Monday on Twitter that Chief Keith Humphrey submitted a letter saying he is retiring from law enforcement.
Scott said during Humphrey's tenure as chief he "brought meaningful reform" to the Little Rock Police Department and a "renewed focus" on community policing.
"He remained loyal to his officers and to this city in the midst of adversity and challenging times," Scott said. "I appreciate his service to Little Rock, and I wish him and his family the best as he transitions to a new chapter."
Humphrey was appointed as chief in April 2019 as Little Rock's 38th police chief.
Scott said he will launch a national search for the city's next chief.
Assistant Chief Crystal Young-Haskins will be the interim chief once Humphrey retires.
We will update this article with more information as it becomes available.
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'Maybe I am that person who can make a change': Brockton native breaks down autism barriers
BROCKTON — Anthony Wright sat in a desk chair in his bedroom, facing the lens of a video camera with his hands clasped in front of his torso.
"I need this Raiders hat because my hair is crazy," he told his YouTube viewers, adjusting the black baseball cap on his head. "This is what's keeping it not looking so crazy."
The video is titled "Autism Awareness 2022" and was posted to Wright's YouTube channel on April 1, the first day of Autism Awareness month. In the 20-minute video, he discusses the importance of Autism Awareness month and what it means to him.
"This month, I want to cherish it as much as I can. ... It's almost like a birthday," he said in the video. "This is something that really isn't talked a lot about unless someone knows someone on the spectrum."
At age 2½, Wright, now 21, was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which affects roughly 1 in 44 children across the country, according to the CDC. He said he's been aware of his disability, and how it impacts his life, for as long as he can remember.
"We told him at a young age," said his mother, Stacy Wright.
Advocating for himself
Wright started his YouTube channel, which has around 130 subscribers, nearly two years ago in the early days of the pandemic, per the recommendation from the Department of Development Services. He uses it as a means to talk about his experience living with ASD, and provides a point of view on current events from someone living with a disability.
“There aren’t a lot of people who advocate for autism," he said in an interview.
The DDS provided Wright with a camera and other equipment to record and upload his videos. In most of his content, he reviews Marvel movies or shows like "The Walking Dead." But recently, he's made more videos sharing his life experiences, hoping to break down stigmas and misconceptions surrounding autism.
His channel, called Gen-Z Geek, created an emotional outlet for him amid the challenges of the pandemic. Wright is a part-time student at Bridgewater State University, where he began studying communications in the fall semester of 2019. When the pandemic hit, it became even more difficult to succeed in classes and make friends.
“It was definitely hard with the virtual courses,” he said. "I essentially had to be my own teacher."
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Like most universities, Bridgewater State has a disability resource center that supports students with disabilities. But now that Wright is a legal adult and out of high school, he had to seek out assistance on his own. Besides periodically sending him in with a script of what to say, his parents couldn't help him, and Wright had to advocate for himself.
“I just felt like I was thrown into the deep end. The first couple years, it just felt like I was drowning, just trying to stay afloat," he said.
Wright has an incredible memory for things like superhero comics and football, and he passed his MCAS exam on the first try. With such a high intellectual prowess, it was a no-brainer for him to go onto college.
“I was hesitant to start college at first," he said. "But I thought, ‘I made it this far.’”
Before graduating from Brockton High School, Wright got a job in 2017 working in the kitchen at Cape Cod Café, where he typically prepares the dough for the restaurant's iconic bar pizza. He's been working there for almost five years. He even got his driver's license.
"He never wanted to drive," said Stacy Wright. "(But) he continues to push himself.”
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Having an impact
"Autism affects everyone in the house," said Stacy Wright. "There were days that were difficult, years that were difficult.”
Anthony Wright has two siblings, an older sister Rachel, 24, and a younger brother Brandon, 12. After growing up alongside a brother with autism, his sister decided to become a teacher. She now teaches fourth grade special education at Arnone School.
"Knowing she’s in a position inspired by me, it feels good knowing the kind of impact I can have on someone," Wright said.
Although calculating the population of students with ASD is difficult, it's estimated that roughly 44% of students with ASD in the United States receive post-secondary education, with a graduation rate of only 41%. Comparatively, the general population has a 59% post-secondary graduation rate.
Similarly, only one in three individuals diagnosed with ASD receive a driver's license before they turn 21, according to research from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Wright's mother also works in a special education classroom as a one-on-one nurse. She said that parents of her students tell her that they hope their kids can be as successful as her son.
“It shows that maybe I am that person who can make a change, and inspire others when they see how far I’ve come," Wright said.
Speaking out, speaking up
Wright said that he struggles with initiating conversations with his peers, making it difficult for him to make friends. He spent most of his senior year of high school sitting alone at the lunch table, or with people he didn't know.
“When I got older, I was seen as a weird kid, antisocial," he said. “People make fun of what they don’t understand.”
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His YouTube channel provides insight into his mind, opening up an opportunity for individuals with disabilities to enter the conversation. His recent videos describe why those diagnosed with ASD struggle with communication, and how the pandemic affected people like him.
Despite his disability, Wright loves to speak publicly and is incredibly well-spoken. He hopes to use the skills he's developed from operating his YouTube channel in his future job, and aims to one day work for Marvel.
“We don’t let him feel bad about himself,” said Stacy Wright. “It doesn’t define him.”
Even beyond Autism Awareness month, Wright hopes that people recognize the struggles of those with disabilities, and wants to be an inspiration for younger kids like him.
“You can’t let society tell you what to do," he said. “You got to prove people wrong."
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Dear editor:
To the obviously racist squawker who stated that Judge Brown-Jackson and Secretary of Defense Austin were affirmative action appointees and “not qualified,” let’s test your statement with facts:
Judge Jackson was a Harvard law “honor” graduate, the editor of the law school journal/newspaper, a judge at the United States level for both appeals and District of Columbia courts, a chair for a United States-level sentencing board and served as an attorney in the office of her predecessor. Comparatively, her predecessor (Supreme Court Judge Breyer) was also a Harvard graduate, taught as a professor at Harvard, served as an attorney on Watergate and clerked in the Supreme Court prior to his appointment.
Where in these fact-based qualifications would anyone find that Judge Jackson is “not” or even less qualified? Oh, I think I know the answer: You, the accusing squawker, being an outed racist and a liar.
I did not see your squawk to challenge qualifications when your master, the orange Trump tornado, appointed Justice Barret. BTW Barret’s qualifications were less than either Jackson or Breyer, but you did not take the time to either write your false accusations or research because Barrett was not a person of color and thus okay with you. Correct?. Further, you, being an opportunist to incite racism, were too dumb to know that you would be fact-checked.
As for Secretary Austin: two master’s degrees, graduated from the Army War College, served as the No. 1 Army personnel: Chief of Staff, Commander of warfighting entities in the Middle East, Afghanistan, led the army warfighting against Isis in Iraq, was commander-level of Central Command for the Army, and served on the board of directors for a Fortune 500 company.
Similarly, his predecessor does have a doctorate, served in the Gulf War (not as No. 1 warfighter), and was chief of staff for a Fortune 500 company, no graduation from War College, no No. 1 leadership position in active war. Being a reasonable person, I would say that, based on this “fact-based” comparative analysis, Austin (not to mention, he is a fellow Georgian) would be best-qualified. Be it not for your master Trump “the chump” mentality, you and any reasonable person would agree.
Please stop spurring racist, non-fact-based information that you know will be challenged and you would not take the time to give due diligence to what is right and correct. Imagine there being something to be said when we, as people of what could be a great USA, change our thought process from racist to truly greatest: It would be miraculous if we all practiced getting along, being fair and reasonable, stopping racism, helping one another and having the faith in our Creator that we should pattern our lives after, to do what is right and honorable to help, not hurt.
Remember, when you come into the reality and truth of this world: All colors, genders, nationalities and special people are here to stay. Deal with it.
Oscar Cooks
Albany
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IDAHO, USA —
This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
Idaho’s congressional races have been quieter leading up to the May 17 primary than the big state races, but there are contested races on both sides of the ticket.
Most prominent has been the rematch between 2nd District Congressman Mike Simpson and his 2014 challenger, Idaho Falls attorney Bryan Smith. There also are three lesser-known Republicans on the ballot.
First-grade teacher Wendy Norman of Rigby is unopposed in the Democratic primary.
And while there are no contested races in any party primary for the 1st District congressional seat held by GOP Rep. Russ Fulcher this spring, Idaho’s senior U.S. senator, Mike Crapo, faces four challengers in the Republican primary, and there’s a two-way race between Democrats Ben Pursley of Boise and David Roth of Idaho Falls to face the winner for Senate in November.
The November ballot for the Senate seat also will include an independent, a Libertarian and a Constitution Party candidate; and Libertarian Joe Evans is making his second bid on that party’s ticket for the 1st District seat.
Here’s a look at the choices voters face May 17 on both sides of the ticket:
2nd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT — GOP
12th-term GOP Congressman Mike Simpson is a dentist from Blackfoot who’s risen to influential roles on the House Appropriations Committee. He’s taken a different approach in his campaign this year, going negative against second-time challenger Bryan Smith, an attorney from Idaho Falls whose firm’s medical debt recovery actions have been deeply unpopular in eastern Idaho, and refusing to debate him.
Both Simpson and Smith have been running TV commercials sharply critical of each other, while outside groups have run independent ads in support of each of them. The American Dental Association PAC has run supportive ads touting “Dr. Mike Simpson,” joined by a New Hampshire-based PAC called American Dream Federal Action, while a Florida-based group called America Proud PAC has run ads promoting Smith and criticizing Simpson.
According to Federal Election Commission records, America Proud PAC has just two donors, Stefan Gleason of Eagle, president of Money Metals Exchange, through his “Trusted Causes LLC,” and Ty Erickson, a doctor from Idaho Falls. All of the PAC’s expenditures have been against Simpson and in favor of Smith.
American Dream Federal Action has also run ads for an Indiana Republican congressional candidate, Erin Houchin, according to FEC records. It received all its money, $4 million, from a single donor, cryptocurrency trading platform FTX CEO Ryan Salame of Sandisfield, Mass.
Boise State University political scientist Jaclyn Kettler said it’s more common for candidates to hold themselves above the fray and rely on outside groups to do the attacking; this race shows the opposite. “It continues to be a pretty negative race,” she said.
It’s actually a five-way GOP primary, but there’s been hardly a peep out of the other hopefuls. None have even filed preliminary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, a step that Norman, the Democrat, has taken though she’s not yet reported any fundraising.
The other GOP hopefuls are Flint L. Christensen, a truck driver and veteran from Shelley; Daniel Algiers Lucas Levy, a businessman from Sun Valley with a clothing line who is also a home-school parent of four children; and Chris Porter of Meridian, who hasn’t responded to any candidate surveys and has no online presence, making him or her something of a ghost candidate.
Christensen has a website, ourmanflint.org, and calls himself a “conservative with libertarian-leaning values.” His top issues are to repeal the 16th Amendment to the U.S Constitution, which authorized the federal income tax; and the 17th Amendment, which established popular election of U.S. senators rather than their selection by state legislatures, on states’ rights grounds; and support for term limits. Christensen says if elected, he’d limit himself to two two-year terms in office. Christensen was the only candidate in the race to respond to the League of Women Voters’ Vote411 candidate survey, but he didn’t respond to the Idaho Republican Party candidate survey.
Levy responded only to the party survey, identifying his top three issues as improving the education system; reducing “wokeness,” and to “concentrate America’s energy on America instead of foreign affairs.” For his campaign website, he listed a Twitter account that has just one follower.
Both Smith and Simpson have reported substantial fundraising, with Simpson raising $1.04 million as of March 31 and still reporting $624,920 in campaign cash on hand. Smith has raised $639,706 and had $328,617 left as of March 31; his fundraising included a $300,000 personal loan plus $29,189 contributed from his own funds.
Smith, 59, says his top issues are opposing dam breaching; restarting the building of the Trump border wall; and requiring a photo ID to vote in all 50 states in the interest of election integrity. His campaign website is bryansmithforidaho.com.
Simpson, 71, identifies his top three issues in the race as the supply chain, inflation and gas prices. If he wins a 13th term, he said in a statement to the Idaho Press, “I’ll continue leading the fight against Biden and Pelosi’s far-left agenda and their attempts to raise taxes on Idahoans.” His campaign website is simpsonforcongress.com.
“I have a proven record of delivering results for Idaho, and I’m not afraid to take on tough challenges like stopping the EPA’s overreach,” he said. He also cited his successful efforts to remove wolves from the endangered species list and keep the sage grouse from being listed, and his support for veterans and the military, including supporting funding for military pay raises and medical care.
Simpson has made little mention during the campaign of the proposal he’s floated to breach four lower Snake River dams to save the region’s salmon and steelhead from extinction, while providing more than $30 billion in aid and mitigation to farmers and communities, including major investments in energy, irrigation, transportation, community development and more.
Simpson developed the concept after more than 300 meetings with stakeholders and interested parties, and has stressed that he hasn’t drafted legislation, but that Northwest interests, including states, congressional delegations, tribes and more, have a rare chance to come together and craft a solution to the problem before courts force one far less palatable on them.
Smith has relentlessly hammered Simpson on the issue, charging that he wants to “take water from farms and ranches and cut hydropower for Idaho families.”
Simpson has been just as relentless in criticizing Smith over his firm’s controversial medical debt collection business. In 2020, top eastern Idaho GOP donor Frank VanderSloot, owner of Melaleuca, successfully spearheaded legislation aimed at curbing abuses in medical debt collection in Idaho, with many of his major criticisms aimed at Smith’s firm. The bill, the Idaho Patient Act, was signed into law in March of that year and took effect Jan. 1, 2021.
Smith, board vice-chairman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation and a member of the Bonneville County GOP Central Committee, also challenged Simpson in the 2014 GOP primary; Simpson won, with 61.6% of the vote to Smith’s 38.4%.
US SENATE – DEMOCRATS
Two candidates are facing off in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate this spring, Ben Pursley of Boise and David Roth of Idaho Falls. Pursley, a former teacher who now operates a commercial real estate investment and development company, hasn’t reported any campaign fundraising.
Roth, who has served as the Bonneville County Democrats chair and ran for the state Legislature in 2020, has reported raising $11,098, including $9,600 in loans from himself, and had $2,952 in campaign cash on hand as of March 31. He’s the executive director of the Bonneville Youth Development Council and serves on the boards of Idaho Falls Habitat for Humanity and the Idaho Falls Soup Kitchen.
Pursley, an avid skier, mountain biker and river rafter, says he wants to “reduce health care and prescription drug costs, defend retirement security, and protect our land, air and water.” He has a campaign website, pursleyforsenate.com.
Roth lists his top issues as substance use reduction through evidence-based programs; funding for education, including early childhood and after-school programs; health care affordability and access; and immigration reform. According to his campaign website, rothforidaho.org, his campaign slogan is “Real people have real problems and need real solutions.”
US SENATE – GOP
Idaho’s senior senator, Mike Crapo, is seeking a fifth six-year term in the Senate. If re-elected, he could chair the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over taxes, health care, trade and more. Crapo is an attorney from Idaho Falls who’s a graduate of Brigham Young University and holds a law degree from Harvard.
He cites as his top issues – all of which he’s currently involved in legislating – prescription drug prices, energy policy and early cancer detection.
“We face a tremendous number of battles here, and the United States Senate is the battleground,” he said in an interview, “and I’m in the middle of those battles. … I very sincerely want to stay in this fight.”
Crapo has reported raising $5.7 million so far for the election cycle, and has just under $6 million in cash on hand and no debt. He raised $560,380 just from Jan. 1 to March 31 this year, including $250,249 from individuals and $171,200 from PACs. His campaign website is crapoforsenate.com.
Crapo faces four challengers in the GOP primary. They are:
Brenda Bourn, a dietician from Meridian who describes herself as a “conservative, Native American, freedom defender.” She lists her top issues as medical freedom, protecting borders, and educational freedom including vouchers.
Bourn reported raising $8,154 for her campaign through March 31, including $4,211 of her own funds; she received donations from seven individuals in Idaho, reported spending on travel, signs, web design and T-shirts, and had $2,077 in campaign cash left at the end of the reporting period. Her campaign website: www.bourn4senate.com
Natalie Fleming, a software developer from Boise, ran as an independent against GOP Sen. Jim Risch in 2020 and took 2.9% of the vote. She lists her top issues as a “family-focused free-market economy,” “multi-partisan legislation,” and data privacy.
Fleming reported no campaign fundraising. Her campaign website: natalieisawesome.com.
Scott Trotter, owner with wife Tracy of the sign-making business Image Design Center in Lewiston, also serves as a “worship pastor” and has served on community, school and church boards. He lists his top issues as restoring American pride, reducing the national debt, and securing the southern border.
Trotter has raised $9,550 for his campaign and had $3,382 left on March 31; he contributed $1,000 of his own funds and received donations from eight individuals, all in the Lewiston/Clarkston/Spokane area. His campaign website: scotttrotterforussenate.com
Ramont Turnbull, business development manager for a fiber-optic assembly company, lives in Meridian and is a Brigham Young University accounting graduate with nine children and 11 grandchildren. He lists his top three issues as keeping the federal government within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution; lower taxes; and opposition to term limits. “We the people exercise this power at the ballot box,” he said in his response to the Idaho GOP Voter Guide candidate survey.
Turnbull reported raising $22,900 for his campaign, consisting of $20,000 in loans of his own funds and a $2,900 contribution from his son. He’s spent $11,162 on signs and paid $7,000 to a digital marketing firm; he had $4,738 left as of March 31. His campaign website: turnbullforussenate.com
Kettler said, “It’s always challenging to defeat a congressional incumbent … especially in a state with one party having such a large advantage.” But she said the crowded field may be reflective of “unhappiness at D.C., at our national politics.”
The contested race on the Democratic side, though a rarity, can be either a plus or a minus for the winner, she said. “Contested primaries can bring attention to the candidates, to the race,” she said. But they also can use up resources that candidates might rather spend in the general election contest.
With the higher-profile contested state races this year, including for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state, congressional candidates, especially challengers, face long odds, she said, “to be out there getting your name known among everything else happening.”
This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press. Read more at the IdahoPress.com
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BOISE, Idaho — A collaboration between the Boise Fire Department (BFD), Boise Parks and Recreation, and the Golden Eagle Audubon Society (GEAS) removed the invasive Russian olive tree from Marianne Williams Park located in east Boise.
The project served multiple motivations. Chief among them, BFD marketed the effort to kickoff wildfire awareness month. Removing the Russian olive tree thins vegetation and mitigates the spread of potential wildfires and the severity of a potential wildfire.
"We are breaking up the fuel continuity, we're reducing the fuel load, and at the same time taking care of an invasive tree species we don't want anyway," said BFD Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Jerry McAdams. "If we don't come in here and do this, it keeps that fuel load on the heavier side. If a wildfire does burn through here toward the end of the season when fuels are cured out, you're gonna lose more trees. More desirable trees which are part of the habitat in that particular area."
GEAS is connected with this project specifically to protect the natural habitat, according to GEAS volunteer Alan Crokett.
The Russian olive tree is insidious, Crokett said. Over time, it slowly replaces the existing vegetation and tree species. This impacts the ecosystem and natural food chain.
"[The Russian olive tree] has fine hairs on the underside of the leaf, and the insects don't eat that. They fall in the water, and they don't feed the water insects which doesn't feed the fish. And it's not doing great things for the birds either," Crokett said. "The birds need the insects particularly in the spring when they're breeding because they need protein."
While the folks at GEAS are focused on cleaning up the homes of our wildlife first, BFD encourages local residents to do the same on their property.
Wildfire awareness month receives national participation, McAdams said. BFD says local residents should take note and be 'firewise' heading into the highest risk wildfire months.
"We want to see people limb up their trees, take that dead and down material away from their structure. Clean up all the leaf debris and pine needle debris around their houses and reduce the ignition vulnerability around their homes," McAdams said.
BFD offers a free wildfire home safety evaluation and a free chipping service to rid the unnecessary fuels from your property. BFD encourages local residents to be proactive and take advantage of these resources during wildfire awareness month.
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's new forensic science house is located on the north side of East Campus. Recent renovations have transformed the once-dilapidated home into a new laboratory for mock crime scene investigations.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
University of Nebraska-Lincoln forensic science program director Michael Adamowicz (left) and lecturer Chuck Murrieta pose for a portrait in the renovated house that will be used for mock crime scene investigations.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
Fingerprints are marked after being identified at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's new forensic science house near East Campus. The renovated house will be used to set up mock crime scene investigations.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
A junked car used for mock crime scene investigations is parked outside of the house.
Just south of Leighton Avenue, near the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's East Campus, sits a secluded white house.
It's been there for nearly a century and hasn't been occupied for years. It's difficult to spot from the road, but recently neighbors may have noticed more activity on the property.
A new chain-link fence put up around the perimeter. Workers hammering away. And last week, movers hauling in furniture.
Those recent renovations have transformed the once-dilapidated home into a new laboratory for students in UNL's forensic science program.
After years of being crammed into a storage room, those students will now have a bigger space to get hands-on experience with mock crime scene investigations.
It's a facility that program director Michael Adamowicz had asked for since his arrival at UNL in 2016.
“Having a crime scene house is a really powerful asset for any forensic science program because it creates a learning laboratory," he said. "That is something you can't get in a normal university building. It's a space that you can't really replicate in a classroom.”
The house, which at one point was scheduled for demolition, had fallen into disrepair and needed to be stripped to the studs.
Renovations began in 2018, but COVID-19 halted the project.
Even when renovations resumed last fall, the project faced skyrocketing prices of building materials.
During the time the house was unoccupied, several squatters and animals had come and gone, leaving drug paraphernalia, knee-high amounts of garbage and bodily fluids.
“At one point they pulled a piece of drywall off ... and the entire space between two studs was up to about 3 feet high filled with dead roaches. So they pulled it off and all these dead roaches came spilling,” Adamowicz said.
The storage room in Filley Hall that previously served as the classroom for mock crime scenes could only hold two to three students at a time. So the house, which is about 1,100 square feet, is more suitable.
"In the house we are able to do much more than just teach students how to analyze a crime scene," UNL lecturer Chuck Murrieta said. "We're able to teach them how to control a scene and gather quality data safely."
Faculty members — from firearms experts to forensic chemists — will set up evidence throughout the house and property.
Although students will spend most of their time finding weapons and bodily fluids inside the house, evidence can also be found outside the house.
The university has placed a junked car filled with bullet holes on the property for use during the mock investigations.
Fingerprints, footprints and tire tracks are spread out throughout the property for students to collect and later examine in a lab.
Murrieta, who was previously with Environmental Health and Safety at UNL, says he plans to use his skills in biosafety to teach students the fundamentals of lab safety.
"With this house we also get to focus on teaching students how to safely transport unknown materials to a lab, making sure no evidence or students get contaminated."
This summer, the university plans to add more furniture — from garage sales and donations — to the house in order to create more realistic crime scenes.
The program is also looking to partner with University Police and the Lincoln Police Department, which might use the facility for their own training purposes.
Reed Knutson, a senior forensic science major, says the house gives them more room for real-life situations.
"You have to carefully look through and examine what you think is evidence," he said, as well as "what needs to be carefully avoided."
Evelyn Mejia is a news intern and current sophomore at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She covers breaking news and writes feature stories about her community.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's new forensic science house is located on the north side of East Campus. Recent renovations have transformed the once-dilapidated home into a new laboratory for mock crime scene investigations.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln forensic science program director Michael Adamowicz (left) and lecturer Chuck Murrieta pose for a portrait in the renovated house that will be used for mock crime scene investigations.
Fingerprints are marked after being identified at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's new forensic science house near East Campus. The renovated house will be used to set up mock crime scene investigations.
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The stars have begun their grand arrivals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, marking the official kickoff of the 2022 Met Gala.
Vanessa Hudgens and La La Anthony, Vogue’s livestream hosts, were among the event’s early arrivals. Hudgens wore a sheer black Moschino gown paired with Jimmy Cho shoes, while Anthony sparkled in a reddish-brown satin cut-out dress designed by LaQuan Smith.
Blake Lively shimmered onto the Met Gala’s red carpet in a metallic gown with a massive bow that flowed into a train. Lively dressed transformed on the capet, losing the bow and gaining a new color. Lively was accompanied by her tuxedo-wearing husband and gala co-host, Ryan Reynolds.
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Singer and actress Janelle Monae came dripping in sparkles with a black and white hooded Ralph Lauren gown, according to Vogue.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, another host of the evening, arrived with his wife wearing a black tuxedo with exaggerated lapels.
Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour pulled up in royal fashion, adorning a crown as she graced the event's red carpet.
Tiaras could be a staple accessory to look out for throughout the star-studded evening, as Emma Chamberlain topped off her two-piece ensemble and vintage Cartier diamonds with a princess tiara.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams walked onto the red carpet with a message embroidered into his coat: "End Gun Violence."
Some of the other early red carpet arrivals included singers Jon Baptiste, Shawn Mendes, Normani, and Camilla Cabello. Models Joan Small and Kaia Gerber arrived in stunning fashion, while actor Ashton Sanders and Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim also arrived in style.
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CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — Crews rescued a hiker who became stranded on a steep and rocky cliffside near Munra Point in the Columbia River Gorge on Monday, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) said.
Munra Point is located near Cascade Locks, west of Wahclella Falls. It's an exposed rocky viewpoint that climbs about 2,000 vertical feet in two miles, MCSO said. The trail to Munra Point is unmaintained.
At about 10:30 a.m., dispatchers received a call from a person at the Bonneville Dam. The caller said they spotted smoke from a signal fire at the top of the cliffside and were able to use a scope to see that a hiker was stranded.
Deputies responded to the location and spotted the hiker using binoculars. The sheriff's office dispatched Multnomah County Search and Rescue and the Hood River Crag Rats, a highly skilled mountain rescue team, to the area.
At around 1 p.m., two rescue teams left the trailhead to try to contact the hiker and determine the safest rescue option.
The sheriff's office confirmed shortly after 4 p.m. that search-and-rescue crews had reached the hiker, a 51-year-old man, and that he was able to walk on his own.
It's unknown how he accessed the cliff or how long he may have been there, according to MCSO. It had been raining with temperatures in the mid-40s during the rescue.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — April brought a record amount of rain for Portland this year, including great gains for the local mountain snowpack, but heading into the warm season the outlook isn't great when it comes to Oregon's wildfire forecast.
Oregon is at high risk heading into the summer months, according to John Saltenberger, fire weather program manger with the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center.
Moving through June, July and August, the area of elevated fire potential is expected to expand to include much of central Washington, central Oregon and into northern California. Salternberger said he's especially worried about just how hot things are expected to get across the country.
“I’ve been doing this job for 38 years now and I can’t recall seeing such an ominous signal displayed over such a large swath over the continental United States,” he said.
Temperatures this summer are expected to be above normal from coast to coast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In Oregon, counties are already preparing for the worst. At a press conference Monday morning, crews from Canby and other Clackamas Fire Districts talked about how quickly the state's fire season can change.
A spokesperson said the county typically looks at July as the start of wildfire season, but it can start earlier if the weather conditions line up. Changes can come at a moments notice, like in September of 2020 when Oregon saw wildfires break out across the state.
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Saltenberger is also looking at what could play out in the desert Southwest. The monsoonal season in that region could potentially have impacts that ripple up to Oregon.
“It is possible that some of that moisture gathers in the southwest could move our way when we see extended period of hot and dry weather. It does have a tendency to pull that moisture northward,” he said.
Ultimately the weather Oregon has seen in the winter or spring doesn't matter, he added — what matters is what the weather looks like when wildfires break out.
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RIVERBANK, Calif. — An Amazon driver was robbed Sunday while delivering packages in Riverbank, Calif., according to the Riverbank Police Services.
Police said the the Amazon driver was delivering packages around 3:20 p.m. near Delmar Ct. and Heartland Dr. before the robbery happened.
Police said when the Amazon driver parked to get the packages from the back of the Amazon delivery truck, two men came up from behind him and placed an unknown object against his back.
According to police, he was told to get out of the car and get on the ground. While the Amazon driver was on the ground, police said the two men stole several packages and drove off in a car. Police do not yet know if a third person was in the car.
ABC10 has reached out to Amazon for comment, but the inquiry has not yet been returned.
Riverbank Police Services is encouraging anyone who has information regarding this investigation to contact Detective Jorge Rosas at (209) 652-0755. Anonymous tips can also be made by calling Crime Stoppers at (209) 521-4636 or going to www.stancrimetips.org
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MODESTO, Calif. — One person is in the hospital as Modesto fire crews battle a blaze along the Tuolumne River near Mariposa and Finch Road.
Crews responded to the brush fire and said no structures were threatened. However, officials said one person, described as a civilian by fire officials, was burned and taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Multiple units in Modesto are still at the scene working to contain the forward spread of the fire.
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DALLAS — Banks that want to get hired to take millions of dollars in deposits of taxpayer money from the city of Dallas will first have to show that they are responsible lenders in all parts of the city – rich and poor – if a proposed ordinance is passed later this month.
Members of the Dallas City Council’s Economic Development Committee on Monday were briefed on a concept called a responsible banking ordinance, which has been featured in WFAA’s ‘Banking Below 30’ stories on lending inequalities between the northern and southern parts of the city.
The idea got unanimous endorsement.
“I want to thank WFAA’s reporting, the Banking Below 30 investigation that, from my perspective, is kind of the genesis of this,” said Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Jaime Resendez. “That investigation shows that many banks choose not to make loans or do meaningful business in low-income parts of our city, even though federal law mandates that they act equitably and not discriminate.”
A responsible banking ordinance works because local governments have a lot of cash – taxes and fees from your pocket – to deposit. The ordinance would require banks to show that it serves all citizens throughout the city, from high to low-income, before it was hired as the city’s official “depository” institution.
“We do have leverage as a city,” Resendez said. “We do deposit millions of tax dollars in the bank. I believe we do have the right as customers to know what the bank that we use is doing, where they are investing, and where they are issuing loans.”
No local governments in North Texas have a policy like this. But 13 cities around the country do have some form of a responsible banking ordinance. Locally, DeSoto and Fort Worth both began studying how to get an ordinance passed after we featured the concept in our stories.
John Heasley, general counsel for the Texas Bankers Association, told the committee that his group has been consulting with the city on the ordinance language.
“I think there’s a fair amount of data that shows banks – FDIC-insured institutions in the City of Dallas, and Dallas County – are trying to do the right thing,” Heasley told WFAA after the briefing. “We’ve had conversations with our bankers in Dallas who would really like to get the word out about what they’re trying to do.”
Committee Chair Tennell Atkins, as well as Vice Chair Carolyn King Arnold and committee members Adam McGough, Omar Narvaez, Chad West and Gay Donnell Willis all said they supported the ordinance.
“I think this is absolutely the right move,” Willis said.
Arnold said even though the reporting requirements would only pertain to banks that seek to take city deposits, it would set a tone that policy makers were watching lending practices.
“We need to build a relationship with those banks that are going to be committed to all citizens, regardless of race, creed or color,” Arnold said.
Arnold also favors holding a public hearing so that people can share their difficulties getting loans from banks.
“We all know that these banking policies happen because of institutionalized racism,” Narvaez said. “This is a good thing for us, and we need to get it done.”
Atkins said that holding banks accountable is critical to growing the tax base south of Interstate 30.
“We’ve got to invest in the southern part of Dallas,” he said. “Our bankers are big institutions to help us to trigger economic development in the southern part of Dallas.”
The full council is expected to vote on the ordinance May 25.
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DALLAS — Throughout the weekend, DART police have been investigating a murder at the Cedars Station near downtown Dallas.
This is the second murder at a DART station in a matter of one month.
Around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, a man was murdered after getting into a fight with a group of people on the southbound side of Cedar Station, according to DART officials.
“There was a disagreement with a series of about four individuals there on the platform, and led to a shooting,” said Gordon Shattles, from DART.
The shooting happened around the corner from the Dallas Police Department headquarters.
“It happened at a very dense part of Dallas, very important station for Dallas. Of course, making sure it’s safe for our passengers,” said Shattles.
Investigators are combing through hours worth of video from the platform. They’re also going around to several businesses and gathering surveillance video.
“One of the really important parts of this is, what was the cause of the argument. Witnesses we spoke to do not know,” said Shattles.
This comes one month after another man was killed at the Ledbetter train station.
Authorities were handing out a poster looking for the suspect.
“We’re asking the public, if you see this individual, do not approach this individual, please contact us directly,” said Shattles.
Authorities told WFAA, they haven’t been able to notify the victim’s families in both of the cases. They’re having a hard time identifying them. They’re asking witnesses to please come forward with any information about the victim’s or the suspects involved. The number to call DART Police is 214-749-5900.
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Timken reports record 1st quarter, credits product demand and higher pricing
JACKSON TWP. – Increased demand for products and higher pricing helped Timken Co. report record first quarter sales and profits, the company announced Monday.
The company reported it saw growth across most of its end-market sectors, with the industrial distribution and off-highway segments leading the way.
More:Timken Co. revenue surpasses $4 billion, growth expected to continue in 2022
The good start leaves company officials confident that Timken, which manufactures bearings and mechanical power transmission products, will have a good year.
In a conference call with stock market analysts, Richard G. Kyle, Timken president and chief executive officer, said incoming orders are outpacing shipments. The war in Ukraine and current coronavirus issues in China could affect costs, but aren't enough to dampen the outlook for the year.
More:Stark County-based Timken Co. suspending operations in Russia as war in Ukraine continues
Timken reported net income of $118.2 million, or a record $1.56 per share, for the quarter ended March 31, compared with $113.4 million, or $1.47 per share, last year. The company had sales of more than $1.12 billion, compared with $1.02 billion last year.
Kyle said the first quarter results reflect higher customer demand for Timken's products. The company also improved its execution and customer service during the quarter, despite continued challenges in the global supply chain.
The first quarter results demonstrate "the resiliency of the company and builds on our track record of delivering strong financial results through industrial cycles and dynamic market conditions," Kyle said.
A diverse product mix is helping the company as it contends with inflation, supply chain issues and the lingering effects of the pandemic, Kyle said.
The company shuttered operations in Russia following the outbreak of war with Ukraine. Revenue in Russia accounted for about 1% of total sales, Kyle said.
Coronavirus issues in China have affected logistics in the region, but sales for the Asia-Pacific market increased 3% in the first quarter and should hold.
"We remain well positioned to achieve record results for 2022," Phil Fracassa, executive vice president and chief financial officer, told stock analysts.
Timken is maintaining its 2022 outlook, with revenue expected to increase by about 8% along with "double-digit earnings growth." Earnings per share are projected to range between $5 and $5.40.
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Memorial Day activities planned for Alliance area
ALLIANCE – Memorial Day activities will take place throughout the Alliance area this year, including a parade.
The Carnation City will host a Memorial Day parade for the first time since 2019.
The event will start at 10 a.m. May 30 on East Main Street and will follow its regular route from Union Avenue to Diehl Court and end at Alliance City Cemetery.
John Molesky, a Memorial Day parade committee member, said groups can register until May 29 to walk in the parade.
"We're hoping for sunshine, but that's always the case," he said.
More:Remembering a fallen Marine
Alliance will also pay tribute to Gold Star families during an event at 2 p.m. May 28 at Silver Park. Members of Gold Star families who have purchased banners through the city's Honoring Hometown Heroes project will be recognized.
Abby Schroeder, director of the Regula Center at Mount Union, said in an email that the event will feature music, testimonials from families, and the unveiling of a new memorial stone next to the 9/11 memorial in Silver Park.
Remarks from Mayor Alan Andreani and the state commander of the American Legion also will be part of the ceremony, she said.
Following the ceremony, refreshments will be served in Miller Pavilion.
Limited seating will be available. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs.
Anyone interested in participating in Alliance's Memorial Day parade can contact Molesky at 330-821-7427.
Reach Paige at 330-580-8577 or pmbennett@gannett.com, or on Twitter at @paigembenn.
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Interstate 77 southbound reopened after crash
The Repository
BETHLEHEM TWP. – All lanes of Interstate 77 southbound have reopened after a crash near Gracemont Street SW closed the left lane earlier in the afternoon.
OHGO, an Ohio Department of Transportation traffic app, showed a clear highway by early evening.
Shortly before 4 p.m., an Ohio Highway Patrol dispatcher said the left lane had been closed so that the Ohio Department of Transportation could repair a guardrail. The right lane and berm were open.
Traffic was stopped or slowed Monday afternoon from approximately state Route 212 north to Fohl Road. The crash remained under investigation Monday night and no further details were immediately available, according to a dispatcher.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – It’s not the end for Art Franklin. It’s only the beginning.
Franklin, the first Black man to anchor a primetime news broadcast in Birmingham, signed off from CBS 42 for the last time on Friday. He said he will remain in the Magic City, though, continuing to tell the stories of community members and empowering them to change the world around them for the better. A Detroit native with a decades-long track record of thoughtful, dogged journalism, Franklin said there’s much more he hopes to accomplish as he moves forward.
Motown memories
Annie Franklin knew her seventh child would be special. She spoke it into existence. Seven is God’s number of perfection, she’d tell Art, and “God has a hand in your life.”
He didn’t doubt God’s presence, but Art Franklin knew his parents, too, had a hand in shaping his future. Franklin grew up on the east side of Detroit in a working-class neighborhood. His stepfather, Andrew, was an assemblyman at Chrysler, and Franklin said he and his siblings didn’t do without anything they needed. His mother Annie, he said, made sacrifices so that he could live comfortably.
Franklin spent his childhood exploring the city, pushing the boundaries to learn about the world around him. The Detroit River was only two city blocks from his home. He’d go to the river, or to the Detroit Yacht Club. Sometimes, he’d go down by the Roostertail, which looked across the river to Belle Isle, and onto Windsor, just across the water, but a country away.
“I grew up playing in the park, jumping on trains that you should not have jumped on – some things that were quite dangerous,” he said. “But it was a great, great childhood. I got everything that I think kids should be afforded – a good family, a good foundation.”
Because of that foundation, Franklin excelled in school. At Lillibridge Elementary, at Foch Junior High, and at Southeastern High, he was a teacher’s pet. He still remembers those teachers: Mrs. Piper from Kindergarten was “amazing.” Mrs. Graham, his third-grade teacher, double promoted him from third to fifth grade. He could never forget her.
Once, Mrs. Graham caught Art talking in class. “I’m so surprised at you,” Art recalled her saying. She brought him to the front of the room and tried to paddle him. Accidentally, Mrs. Graham hit him on the back.
“That caused me to take a chair and swing one of our desks across the room,” he said.
Art’s brother, in sixth grade at the time, told him he was going to “get it” when he got home. But Mrs. Graham intervened.
“Do not hurt him,” Mrs. Graham told Annie Franklin over the phone. “Don’t whoop him because it was his asthma that made him do it.”
She’d saved the day. “She really cared about me,” Art said.
In his time at Southeastern High School, Franklin was one of 33 students placed on a biomedical sciences track aimed at paving their road to medical school.
Mrs. Howze was one of the teachers in the program, guiding the students through the difficult academics with compassion and grace. Toward the end of his time at Southeastern, Howze approached him.
“I’m concerned about you,” she told Art. He was confused. He’d had a 3.8 GPA and done well on his SAT. He’d already been accepted to the University of Michigan.
“Michigan’s a tough institution,” Howze told him. “So while you are smart here, you’re going to be faced with a whole different environment.”
Going Blue
Mrs. Howze was right. When he got to Michigan, Art continued down the pre-med path his high school had put him on. But when he got to physics, he knew he was at the end of the road.
“I had taken pre-cal and trig in high school, but Michigan was a different story,” he said. “But I never failed physics – I withdrew from it before I got an F.”
But the roadblock would help lead Franklin where he needed to go. A fellow student and pre-med major, Liz, told Art she was considering a change of major.
“It’s just too hard,” she told him.
She made the switch, moving to a major in radio, television and film. He soon followed. The new endeavor fit him well. At Southeastern, he’d fallen in love with reading lines in theater, performing in a Spanish drama called “The Devil Made Me Do it,” in which he’d played the lead role of a possessed attorney. Moving into production, Art hoped, would give him the ability to use those skills and also avoid the misery that physics had caused him.
Franklin enjoyed his time at Michigan, but as he was exposed to new ideas and experiences, he wanted to branch out – to learn more about the world outside of Detroit and Michigan.
Some of the new ideas that pushed Franklin in a new direction came from John Lockhart, an African-American studies professor at the University of Michigan. From Lockhart, he was able to go beyond “the Black History Month stuff that you see on the walls of schools” and learn more deeply about the history of the Black experience.
“I learned why [Black] institutions were so great and why they were established: for us to be successful,” he said. “Because when you went there, you went to a place that cared about your success.”
That institutional focus on Black excellence wasn’t something Franklin felt at the University of Michigan. It was at Michigan where he had first experienced racism – in a chemistry discussion group. Franklin was the only Black student in the group. He went to the class to take a quiz one day, arriving with some of his classmates, even following one white student through the doorway. The white student was given the quiz. Franklin was told he was late.
“Look around,” Franklin recalled the teacher saying. “You don’t belong here.”
“It stung,” Franklin said. “And that was when I realized that I was in an environment that I would have to battle in.”
He went to the department head to tell his story. They said he could switch classes to another section. Art refused.
“I decided no – she is going to see my Black face because I want her to know that I did belong there,” he said.
He wasn’t able to get the A he wanted, but he made it through the course. And the experience changed Art. He began to think more about the lessons John Lockhart had begun to teach him. One lesson, in particular, kept coming to mind.
“I had learned about Howard University. It was the Harvard of the Black schools,” Franklin said. He had two fraternity brothers that were headed to the school. So Art, too, at the end of his freshman year, would head for the hope of Howard.
The hope of Howard
Howard University would, in many ways, give Franklin the hope he needed. The experience solidified his cultural foundation. He found himself in the nation’s capital at age 18, a young brother of the Alpha chapter of Omega Psi Phi, the first fraternity founded at an HBCU.
“I was living life,” he said of the time.
But Franklin had made some slight miscalculations. He had not really considered the financial impact of the move. The scholarships he’d earned at the University of Michigan were no longer there, and Howard offered little in the way of transfer scholarships. So he found himself forced into more responsibility than he may have anticipated, working, for example, as a clerk at the Treasury Department, trying to make ends meet.
Franklin is grateful for his time at Howard, adding he wouldn’t trade it for the world. But his time there wasn’t destined to last until graduation. Once again, God had chosen another path. Because of love, Art explained, and a bit of homesickness, he transferred back to the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1980.
While he said he doesn’t regret his decision to go back to Michigan, even now, Franklin wishes he had a degree from Howard University.
“It’s such a special place,” Art said. “And maybe it’s still possible – Pearl Bailey went back to Georgetown in her 70s.”
‘The revolution will be televised’
Franklin graduated from college at a difficult time for Black journalists. The country was in the midst of a significant political shift to the right, with Ronald Reagan soon ascending to the presidency. Diversity in media was extremely limited where it existed at all.
For Franklin, one man rose above it, providing him the vision he needed for where he wanted to go. Max Robinson was the first African American to regularly anchor the broadcast network news in the United States, serving as co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight with Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983.
“Max challenged his own network at the time,” Franklin said. “He said ABC would take black journalists and journalists of color and put them in faraway places. But then when the big story came there, they pulled them out and put white journalists in their place.”
He said Robinson’s commitment to the Black community was clear, providing a model to aspire to.
“There was somebody who was truly fighting for people who look like me, and he was doing it at the highest level,” Franklin said. “I knew if I did what he did, I could be impactful in my community – to tell stories about us, by us with the context was necessary that can only come from people who had lived that life.”
Looking for a job, Franklin found that very few key roles – at newspapers and TV stations – were being given to Black men. Everywhere he turned, there was nobody who looked like him. Door after door was closed. But soon, he was able to slip his foot in the door – not at a newspaper on a TV station, but on the radio.
Nonetheless, once Franklin got his foot in the door, he quickly kicked it open.
Initially, he had been hired as a DJ at the station, WDZZ in Flint, Michigan. But it didn’t take long for him to get where he wanted to be – the news.
He started with sports reporting, even covering the inaugural year of the United States Football League when the Michigan Panthers won the league’s first championship.
Before long, he made the move to TV news, working at WILX in Lansing, Michigan, where he was the first Black man to anchor a regular news broadcast in the city.
Franklin was then hired by WAVY in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as the station’s military affairs correspondent. When he began, he admittedly knew “nothing” about the military. He’d be a quick study, reporting from more than half a dozen countries while on assignment. During his time in Norfolk, Franklin also anchored the station’s public service program, “The Bottom Line.”
“That’s where I really grew up as a journalist,” Franklin said.
Birmingham, Round One
Franklin had no real desire to come to Alabama before he arrived in Birmingham for the first time. He wasn’t familiar with the South, and the region’s reputation was less than ideal. But he’d been offered two reporter positions – one in Atlanta and another in Tampa, but it was in the Magic City where he had a shot at the anchor desk.
Franklin took the opportunity, arriving in Birmingham in 1991 to work at WBRC. After being shown around the city – and exploring other parts himself – Franklin was brought to the newsroom and given the tour. One of the things he saw – the set for “Country Boy Eddie” – shocked him. The “Hee Haw”-esque Southern romanticism was something Franklin had never seen.
“Surprised is not the word I would use. I was shocked to see that there were still local programs on the air like that,” he said. “I realize how important the program was for the station at the time, but it was different. It reinforced what I thought about the South. But it also showed me that everybody wasn’t like me, and it was okay.”
Like in Lansing, Franklin’s role at WBRC made him a first — the first Black man to anchor the primetime news in the city. He stayed at WBRC until 2002. At the time, there were rumors he would run for mayor, but he moved to New York, taking enough time off to travel and write his book, “Give It All You Got: A Message to My Young Brothers.”
After that, Franklin returned to Atlanta, working for WXIA. He also anchored broadcasts at WAGA before serving as a spokesman for New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, whose leader at the time, Bishop Eddie Long, was embroiled in accusations of sexual abuse.
In 2016, Franklin came back to Birmingham to anchor the CBS 42 Morning News, then the evening news.
“It was a God thing,” he said of his return to the Magic City. “There’s no other way to explain it.”
Moving forward in the Magic City
Franklin’s legacy involves representation. In two different cities – Lansing and Birmingham – he became a symbol of the shift toward a more diverse, inclusive press that better reflects the community it serves.
He said that in his time in news, he’s seen media outlets make great strides, particularly in diversifying on-air talent. Sometimes, though, that on-air diversity hasn’t been enough.
“Seeing somebody who looks like you is important, but it’s also important to have them in management,” he said. “But the people making decisions are pretty much still the same. As you walk your way up the chain, you don’t see people of color. You don’t see women in the key positions they need to be in.”
Franklin said telling those stories – contextual, meaningful stories about the community he loves – is something he’ll continue to do in Birmingham, even if it’s not at CBS 42.
“My pastor said that sometimes you climb the ladder of success only to find your ladder is leaning against the wrong building. So I’m at the point where I’m deciding what going forward is like.”
Franklin said he still wants to have an impact in the city. What form that takes, he said, isn’t set in stone.
Since first coming to Birmingham over 30 years ago, Franklin has known every mayor. Richard Arrington appointed him to the Birmingham Youth Commission. Bernard Kincaid is a fraternity brother. Randall Woodfin has even challenged him to a dance-off.
And the rumors about a potential run for office won’t go away.
Franklin said he won’t rule out a run for Birmingham’s highest political office in the future.
“Never say never,” Franklin said. “I’ve learned to trust God’s plan. I am not running for mayor of the City of Birmingham. But tomorrow, if God were to reveal that there was something else that he needed me to do – that included leading this city in a different way than I have – then I will listen. I will listen to God’s voice.
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