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WEATHER
Air quality alert issued for Maricopa County
Staff reports
The Arizona Repubic
The National Weather Service has issued an air quality alert for Maricopa County starting at 9:44 a.m. July 27. The warning expires at 9 p.m. July 28.
For the latest watches and warnings, see our weather alert page.
How do I protect myself during high pollution days?
When air quality is poor, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality suggests you take more care about being outdoors. Ozone levels are generally highest in the afternoon, so consider rescheduling activities and taking more breaks.
To avoid health risks associated with ozone:
- Reduce exposure by playing and exercising outdoors before noon.
- Limit vehicle idling when possible.
- Curtail daytime driving.
- Refuel cars and gasoline-powered equipment as late in the day as possible.
- Carpool.
- Combine trips.
- Limit vehicle idling by avoiding drive-thrus and excessive idling caused by long wait times making left-hand turns.
This article was generated by The Arizona Republic and USA TODAY Network using data released by the National Weather Service. It was edited by a staff member.
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Excessive heat warning issued for Coconino County
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for Coconino County starting at 2:42 p.m. July 26. The warning expires at 8 p.m. July 30.
For the latest watches and warnings, see our weather alert page.
Climate data from the federal government shows the Southwest has grown significantly hotter during the past decade. The region has endured the most pronounced warming in the country during that period, an increase that federal meteorologists said clearly reflects the influence of global warming.
In Phoenix and surrounding areas, developed areas have grown significantly hotter than the surrounding desert through the urban “heat-island” effect, in which exposed asphalt, concrete and roofs soak up heat from the sun and push temperatures higher.
In the know:
What is the difference between heat stroke, heat exhaustion and dehydration?
Hot weather tips
The Arizona Department of Health Services has tips to prevent heat-related illness:
- Drink water: Drink at least 2 liters of water per day if staying inside all day. Those who spend time outdoors should drink 1 to 2 liters per hour they are outside.
- Dress for the heat: Wear light-weight and light-colored clothing. Sunscreen should always be applied to exposed skin. Wear a hat or use an umbrella when outdoors.
- Eat small meals and eat more often: Avoid foods high in protein that increase metabolic heat.
- Monitor those at risk: Check on friends, family or others for signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
- Slow down: Do strenuous activity only during the coolest hours of the day, between 4 and 7 a.m.
- Stay indoors.
- Take breaks: Take a break in a cool place when doing physical activity outside on a hot day.
This article was generated by The Arizona Republic and USA TODAY Network using data released by the National Weather Service. It was edited by a staff member.
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Maricopa County medical examiners office bring in coolers to expand capacity amid heatwave
As the relentless heatwave continues to pummel Arizona, deaths continue to follow behind it. As of Thursday, the capacity at the Maricopa County medical examiner’s office was at 106%.
This overflow has prompted the county to bring in coolers for the first time since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
“Maricopa County has brought in 10 refrigerated coolers to increase capacity at our Medical Examiner's Office. We have not yet had to utilize them,” Jessie Caraveo, a spokesperson for Maricopa County, said.
According to Caraveo, a surge in deaths is normally seen during this time of year. But with a historic heatwave scorching the Valley, this year might be worse than normal.
Heat related deaths:Heat deaths in Maricopa County jump to 25 within a week; hundreds still under investigation
"As always the Board, Emergency Management, and the Office of the Medical Examiner are in constant communication to assess next steps and stay prepared as we endure record-breaking temperatures this July," Caraveo said.
On Wednesday, the weekly heat report from Maricopa County confirmed seven new heat-associated deaths since last week, increasing the number of such deaths to 25 so far this year.
Caraveo also said that the number of heat deaths this year will not be known for a while as forensic pathologists have to investigate the exact cause of death for hundreds of cases.
Data from this week's heat report from Maricopa County also showed an increase in hospital visits due to the heat with almost 2% of all hospital visits being related to the heat.
The coolers brought in by the county come as the Valley continues to break and set new heat records. Phoenix has reached 110 degrees or higher for 27 days in a row with some relief forecasted during the weekend.
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TEXAS, USA — The Big Country and the Concho Valley have a new American Red Cross executive director.
The organization's North Texas Region announced Thursday that Kara Nickens is new executive director for the Texas Big Country Chapter which includes 38 counties with more than 770,000 residents. She is based in Wichita Falls, where she will engage community stakeholders and oversee Red Cross programs and services from Wichita Falls to Abilene, San Angelo, Brownwood and everything in-between.
“We are very fortunate to have someone of Kara’s caliber joining the Red Cross,” Linda Braddy, Red Cross North Texas Region CEO, said. “Kara’s years of humanitarian service in Wichita Falls and Abilene makes her the perfect ambassador to further the Red Cross mission, steward vital relationships, expand community partnerships and strengthen community engagement across the Texas Big Country chapter.”
Before joining the Red Cross, Nickens served as the Wichita Falls Area Food Bank CEO. During her tenure at the food bank, several new programs were implemented including a mobile pantry program that delivered food to people in food deserts who might not otherwise have access to nutritious food. Under her leadership, the food bank doubled the amount of food distributed.
She received a bachelor’s degree from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls and spent the first 20-plus years of her career serving as the executive director for private living and day habilitation programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
“I’m very excited to join an organization that is world-renowned for its humanitarianism and is dedicated to building resiliency here in West Texas,” Nickens said. “I look forward to working alongside my colleagues and community partners to help train, provide service and help make our communities stronger with our home-grown talent.”
For more information about the American Red Cross Texas Big Country chapter, click here.
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TEXAS, USA — Congressman August Pfluger recently announced a series of town hall meetings across the 11th congressional district, which includes areas across West Texas. The town hall meetings are open to the public.
Pfluger will be in Garden City Aug. 2, Mason, San Saba and Brady Aug. 3, Coleman Aug. 4 and Killeen Aug. 15.
The specific times and locations can be found below:
- 2 p.m. Aug. 2- Garden City Town Hall, Glasscock Community Center, 117 South Myrl St.
- 10 a.m. Aug. 2- Brady Town Hall, McCullouch County Library, Community Room, 401 E. Commerce St.
- 2 p.m. Aug. 3- Mason Town Hall, M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library, 410 Post Hill St.
- 5:30 p.m. Aug. 3- San Saba Town Hall, San Saba Courthouse, District Courtroom, 500 E. Wallace St.
- 11:30 a.m. Aug. 4- Coleman Town Hall, Bill Franklin Center, 13152 State Highway 206
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TEXAS, USA — You've heard people say, "There's nothing to do in town." Here is a list of events happening in San Angelo, Abilene and beyond to do with your friends and family.
BIG COUNTRY
FRIDAY
9:30 a.m. - Brews n News, Mad Coffee and More, 8049 US Hwy 83/84
11:30 a.m. - Professional Women's Quarterly Luncheon, The Hideout Golf Club and Resort, 185 Hideout Lane - BROWNWOOD
3:30 p.m. - Tween Summer Camp Series, Abilene Public Library Main Branch, 202 Cedar St.
4 p.m. - Family Fun: Nocturnal Animals, Abilene Public Library South Branch, 4310 Buffalo Gap Road
6 p.m. - Parent's Night Out, The Dive Spot, 1701 Lytle Trail
7:30 p.m. - Christy Patton on Tap, Pioneer Tap House, 112 E. Baker St. - BROWNWOOD
7:30 p.m. - John Conlee, Paramount Abilene, 352 Cypress St.
8 p.m. - Kirko Bangz, Tequilas Night Club, 133 Eplens Court
SATURDAY
8:30 a.m. - Scurry County Back to School Bash, East Side Church of Christ, 201 31st St. - SNYDER
9 a.m. - Hiking with Homeless Dogs, Abilene State Park, 150 Park Road 32 - TUSCOLA
9 a.m. - Adult Day Camp, Big Star Farms, 434 County Road 176 - OVALO
9 a.m. - Community Fun Day, Cowboy Heritage Church, 8468 County Road 112N - CLYDE
9 a.m. - Free Saturday Seminar - Helpful Tips for the Garden, Taylor County Extension Office - Agriculture, 1982 Lytle Way
9 a.m. - Birding 101, Lake Brownwood State Park, 200 State Hwy Park Road 15 - LAKE BROWNWOOD
9:30 a.m. - Kids Market Day, Sassy Stitches Beauxtique, 201 E. Adams St., Suite G - BROWNWOOD
10 a.m. - Family Fun Saturday, National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, 102 Cedar St.
11 a.m. - Abilene Teachers Federal Credit Union's 2023 Children's Business Fair, Mall of Abilene, 4310 Buffalo Gap Road
11 a.m. - Put Our "Junk in Your Trunk" Strength for Life Abilene Rummage Sale, 201 Mesquite St.
11 a.m. - July Mats & Mimosas, 10 Mile Productions, 401 Center Ave. - BROWNWOOD
1 p.m. - Adult Dungeons and Dragons Club, Abilene Public Library, Mockingbird Branch, 1326 N. Mockingbird Lane
6 p.m. - DJ Rain's Birthday Bash, 3M Gym Clubhouse, 4501 US Hwy 377S - BROWNWOOD
6:30 p.m. - Pure Prairie League, Lime Rock Amphitheater, 12584 US Hwy 277S - TUSCOLA
7 p.m. - The Killer Dueling Pianos benefiting Scurry County youth sports programs, WTC Coliseum, 900 E. Coliseum Drive - SNYDER
7 p.m. - Movie Buff Trivia Night, The Winery at Willow Creek, 4353 S. Treadaway Blvd.
7:30 p.m. - Comedy Night with Chad Prather, RLVenue, 415 S. Commercial Ave. - COLEMAN
8 p.m. - Barbie Party, Tequilas Night Club, 133 Eplens Court
8 p.m. - Steffani Montel, Heff's Burgers, 4310 Buffalo Gap Road
SUNDAY
11 a.m. - Brunch at Amendment 21, 382 Chestnut St.
Noon - Skywatch Endreign, Grover Nelson Park, 2070 Zoo Lane
1:30 p.m. - Pokemon Meet-up, Abilene Public Library Main Branch, 202 Cedar St.
2 p.m. - CHAPS presents Summer Jam Session, Coleman Museum & Gallery at Heritage Hall, 400 W. College Ave. - COLEMAN
4:30 p.m. - Potluck gathering, Skies Over Texas Winery, 6037 County Road 291 - EARLY
CONCHO VALLEY
FRIDAY
11 a.m. - Illustrated Melodies: A Summer of Musical Storytimes, Flute session with Kathy Dunn, Old Town Books, 506 S. Chadbourne St.
4:45 p.m. - Wild West Fest Bar Crawl Mila Rae, The Martial Pint, 19 E. Concho Ave.
5:30 p.m. - Wild West Fest Bar Crawl Travis Roberts, The Martial Pint, 19 E. Concho Ave.
6 p.m. - Art Alliance San Angelo July Artist Meetup, San Angelo Visitor Center, 418 W. Avenue B
6 p.m. - Mark Chestnutt with Coke Hendry, Cooper's Bar-B-Q, 20809 US Hwy 277S - CHRISTOVAL
6:30 p.m. - Mark David Manders, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
7:15 p.m. - Braxton Keith, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
7:30 p.m. - San Angelo Broadway Academy's Finding Nemo Jr., San Angelo Performing Arts Center, 82 Gillis St.
7:30 p.m. - Mustache Melodrama "Hazard in the Hangar", Be Theatre, 82 Gillis St.
8:30 p.m. - Tyler Halverson, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
9 p.m. - La Fiera de Ojinaga, Club El Patron, 1616 S. Chadbourne St.
10:15 p.m. - Giovannie & the Hired Guns, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
Midnight - Wild West Fest After Party Jesse Daniel, The House of FiFi DuBois, 123 N. Chadbourne St.
Midnight - Wild West Fest After Party Trenton Fletcher, Blaine's Pub, 10 W. Harris Ave.
SATURDAY
7 a.m. - Concho Valley Farmers Market Melon Fest, Farmers Market Pavilion, 609 S. Oakes St.
9 a.m. - Get Crafty, Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave.
Noon - San Angelo NAACP Buffalo Soldier Memorial grand opening weekend, El Paseo de Santa Angela, 32 W. Avenue D
2 p.m. - Saturday Story-time and Crafts, Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave.
2 p.m. - Tom Green County Libraries Teen Republic Draw Together, Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave.
2 p.m. - San Angelo Broadway Academy's Finding Nemo Jr., San Angelo Performing Arts Center, 82 Gillis St.
4 p.m. - Wild West Fest Alex Aguilar, The Martial Pint, 19 E. Concho Ave.
4 p.m. - Eighth annual Shrimp Boil, Warehouse 150, 113 E. Concho Ave.
5 p.m. - Wild West Fest, Cooper Morhmann, The Martial Pint, 19 E. Concho Ave.
6 p.m. - Benefit steak dinner and auction for Krista and Cody Allison, Old Town, Old Times, 8601 U.S. 67 - BALLINGER
6:30 p.m. - Holly Beth, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
7:15 p.m. - Jacob Stelly, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
7:30 p.m. - Sofia Williamson and Mario Matteoli, Summerland Public House, 105 Frisco St. - MENARD
7:30 p.m. - San Angelo Broadway Academy's Finding Nemo Jr., San Angelo Performing Arts Center, 82 Gillis St.
7:30 p.m. - Mustache Melodrama "Hazard in the Hangar", Be Theatre, 82 Gillis St.
8 p.m. - High Desert Queen, The Deadhorse, 210 S. Chadbourne St.
8:30 p.m. - Treaty Oak Revival, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
8:30 p.m. - Cowboy Supper Club, The Plated Dish, 2005 Knickerbocker Road
10:15 p.m. - Gary Allan, Wild West Fest, Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial RiverStage, 16 E. Avenue A
Midnight - 12 Mile, The House of FiFi DuBois, 123 S. Chadbourne St.
Midnight - Wynn Williams, Blaine's Pub, 10 W. Harris Ave.
SUNDAY
8 a.m. - Women's Hike, San Angelo State Park, 362 FM 2288
Noon - Let's Give "Rowdy" a Leg Up - benefit for Mark Rauterkus, Blaine's Pub, 10 W. Harris Ave.
2 p.m. - San Angelo Broadway Academy's Finding Nemo Jr., San Angelo Performing Arts Center, 82 Gillis St.
Want your event(s) listed? Email them to srojas@foxsanangelo.com by noon Wednesdays.
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SAN ANTONIO — The owner of a stolen vehicle shot the alleged suspects – killing one of them – after tracking the car to a parking lot outside South Park Mall on Thursday afternoon, officials with the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) said.
The suspected thief opened fire first, SAPD Chief William McManus said, after he was ordered out of the car at gunpoint by the owner and they were waiting for police to arrive. The owner was hit before returning fire.
“Certainly a case of self-defense, is what we have,” McManus said. “We would prefer that they call the police before taking that into your own hands, but he did what he felt he needed to do.”
Another passenger who McManus said was inside the car when the owner caught up to them is in critical condition after she was also shot. Both she and the owner were taken to a local hospital.
The investigation is ongoing, and the police chief said it’s unknown at this point if any charges will be filed.
Numerous officers could be seen in the parking lot on the south end of the mall after they responded just before 1 p.m.
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LINCOLN — The potential reopening of Lincoln College is to remain under wraps until all interested parties agree to make a public statement.
On July 21, Lincoln Mayor Tracy Welch told a local radio show, the WHOW Morning Show in Clinton, that Lincoln College, which closed in May 2022 after 157 years, would reopen in some capacity.
However, those familiar with the matter and involved in the institution's future have said they are "sworn under secrecy," according to Logan County Board Chair Emily Davenport.
"Until everything is signed on the dotted line, everything is to be confidential," she said.
The same is true for the Lincoln College Board of Trustees.
"I can't disclose anything. We're under a confidentiality agreement," said board chair Patrick Doolin.
José Garcia, senior associate director of strategic communications for the Illinois Board of Higher Education, said the organization "has not received an application by an entity seeking to reinitiate postsecondary educational operations at the former Lincoln College site and is unaware of any plans to do so."
Staffer's at Welch's office said he was unavailable for comment, despite several attempts to contact the mayor in the past week.
Garcia noted that the college's closing was, "undoubtedly, a disruption for its students and the Lincoln community.
"Should there be an interest to reinitiate educational operations at the former Lincoln College site, the IBHE is ready to go through the appropriate processes with the interested entity."
PHOTOS: Lincoln College’s final commencement ceremony
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Tuesday's announcement that Red Way Airlines was discontinuing service to three cities early next month caught many ticket-holding locals by surprise.
Red Way, which began flying out of Lincoln Airport in early June, will stop flying to Austin, Texas on Aug. 5 and two days later will discontinue flights to Atlanta and Minneapolis.
"I'm disappointed they didn't perform better," said Red Way CEO Nick Wangler. "We knew going into this that there would be a lot of lessons learned — that some things were going to work really good and other things weren't going to work as well."
Wangler and Lincoln Airport Executive Director Dave Haring said from the outset that they would be quick to discontinue anything that wasn't working.
That was the case on Tuesday. Rather than throwing what they believed to be good money — a $3 million nest egg of American Rescue Plan Act money from the city of Lincoln and Lancaster County — into a bad cause, they simply pulled the plug.
Airfare refunds will be issued, but that left a lot of people scrambling to rebook summer and fall travel plans — from baseball games in Atlanta to a Kansas City Chiefs road game or the Huskers' season opener in Minneapolis this fall — while also voicing their displeasure.
"My only gripe is they ran a (buy-one-get-one) sale two weeks ago," said Lincoln resident Benjamin Weyers. "Then they pulled the plug after people purchased airline tickets and tickets to concerts and sporting events.
"I definitely won't be purchasing from them again."
Wangler has no explanation for why sales were so soft in Austin, which he considered to be an underserved market.
Discontinuing service to Texas' capital city was not good news for a handful of locals.
"This is very disappointing," Nancy Henry wrote on Facebook. "We are just getting ready to fly back to Lincoln from Austin. Our flight here was amazing. So easy, fast & convenient for our son to pick us up.
"We were so looking forward to be able to come down here more conveniently. They did not give it enough time & during the right season!"
The start of the football season held promise and potential, especially because the Huskers open their season with a Thursday-night game on Aug. 30 against Minnesota.
The flight schedule broke so that a Husker fan would be able to take the short flight to Minneapolis on Thursday, spend a few days there and return on Sunday.
Haring said he had heard there was interest in that kind of travel schedule, but the flight home was where the route's feasibility took a hit. Not everyone was returning home on the same schedule.
"It didn't make much sense to have 30 people on a 150-seat plane on the way back to Lincoln," he said.
The same scenario did in Tara Guy's plans to fly to Minneapolis for the Oct. 8 game between the Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings.
In the end, the math just didn't add up.
Most people can understand the startup airline's growing pains. However, discontinuing flights without proper notice is hard to forgive, others say.
"Wow. Absolutely screwed hundreds of people," Michael Bradley wrote in a post. "Now they have to pay huge prices to book last minute flights. Haven’t had to use them yet but was always seeing what their prices were. I will never use them now since this could happen. Don’t care how much they work out.
"If canceling flights the week before is an option then they will never be an option. Unreal."
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A 51-year-old man pushing an ice cream cart was killed Wednesday night after being struck by a pickup while crossing the street.
Dallas Police said 51-year-old Luis DiosDado Munoz was walking down Buckner Boulevard near Loma Garden Avenue with his paletero cart at about 8:40 p.m. when he was struck by a passing pickup.
The ice cream vendor was taken by Dallas Fire-Rescue to an area hospital where he later died.
The driver that struck Munoz stayed at the scene. Police said Munoz was not in a crosswalk when he was struck by the pickup.
An investigation is underway and police have not said if the driver is expected to file any charges.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed a chair and three new members to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, with two of the new appointees coming from the Austin area.
Eric Nichols was appointed as the chair of the board, while Bill Welch, Nate Sprinkle and Sydney Zuiker will serve on the board through Feb. 1, 2029, when their terms are set to expire.
The new chair, Eric Nichols is an Austin native and a partner at the Butler Snow LLP law firm. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas and as Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice in the Office of the Texas Attorney General. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Texas Bar Foundation and the Austin Bar Foundation. Nichols is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the State Bar of Texas and is a trustee of the UT Law School Foundation, where he received his law degree.
Welch, another Austin native, is a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General. According to a release from the governor's office, Welch has previously held multiple senior leadership positions in security and law enforcement.
Welch is also a founder and former CEO of Apptronik, Inc., an Austin-based advanced robotics company. He received a degree in criminal justice from Community College of the Air Force, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Boston University and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin.
Sprinkle is a native of Richmond, Texas, near Houston. He is a senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Rosenberg and previously volunteered in pre-release rehabilitation programs in North and South Texas. According to the release, he currently counsels individuals in Fort Bend County after they are released.
Sprinkle received a Bachelor of Science in Math and Computer Science from Sul Ross State University in Alpine and a Master of Mission Science from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Forth Worth.
Sydney Zuiker is a Houston native who is currently the director of the Safe Community Institute for Crime Stoppers of Houston. She is a board member of Demand Disruption and a committee member for Advocates for the Children of Texas and Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition.
In 2021, Zuiker was recognized as one of Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 honorees for her public safety work in the community. Zuiker received a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from UT Austin and a Master's in Legal Forensic Psychology from the University of California, Irvine.
The Texas Board of Criminal Justice oversees the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and provides confinement, supervision, rehabilitation and reintegration of Texans convicted of felonies.
According to the National Institute of Corrections, as of 2020, Texas has 252 prisons and a jail population of 69,610 people; 2020 is the latest year's data reported from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI.
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ROANOKE, Va. – It’s no secret it’s hot outside, and on days like this one, it’s important to practice heat safety.
To start, make sure you’re hydrated and have access to a cool place.
On average, 38 children die every year by either being left or trapped in a hot car in the United States according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
Virginia Department of Transportation spokesperson Len Stevens said there’s a couple preventative measures you can take to protect your child.
“Stop, before you leave the vehicle, make sure you check the backseat,” Stevens said. “It’s a good idea to leave something that you need, you have a briefcase for work, or something else that you take into the office with you, leave that on the backseat because you will check the backseat then.”
You don’t just have to be inside of the car to feel the heat, exercising raises your temperature too.
Mother Brianna Garcia-Lopez brings her daughter to the playground frequently.
“It is very hot out here but with a two-year-old they’re so active you still got to let them come out and play,” Garcia-Lopez said. “We still come to the playground, we just make sure to stay hydrated.”
It’s not just kids we need to worry about. Dr. Maureen Roberts Medical Director of Emergency Veterinary Services of Roanoke said her practice see pets every year suffering from heat-related illnesses.
“Multiple people where they’ll decide to play ball with their pet in the middle of the day, and even though it’s only ten minutes, they can be seriously affected by that,” Dr. Roberts said. “Just think about how you feel outside and in the middle of the day probably not the best time to go exercising.”
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. – Cardiologists are urging parents to make sure they take their child’s heart health seriously.
Eighteen-year-old Bronny James, son of basketball player LeBron James, is recovering from cardiac arrest.
Doctors at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery say parents who have children involved with sports should ask if there is a trained person who knows CPR or can use defibrillator.
Experts say the reason some athletes experience cardiac arrest is because they didn’t know they have a heart defect.
“One example of that is HOCM, hypertrophy obstructive cardiomyopathy, a lot of athletes who have had this happen, not all of them but a big percentage of them have this underlying malformation of the heart, if they knew that ahead of time, they could have avoided this,” Dr. John Patterson with LewisGale Hospital Montgomery said.
Health leaders say one organization, the Compress and Shock Foundation teaches the public CPR and how to use defibrillators in case someone is dealing with cardiac arrest.
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VIRGINIA – The Virginia Department of Health wants you to add another item to your back to school list.
They’re encouraging parents to check that their kids vaccinations and health records are up to date before heading back to the classroom.
Skipping the step could result in a delayed start to the school year for your child.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Karen Shelton said these requirements protect not just students but everyone.
“Schools are really at the heart of our community,” Dr. Shelton said. “So anything that we can do to help prevent the spread of diseases in the schools will also be protective to families and the whole community.”
Dr. Shelton said certain vaccines are required when entering Kindergarten, 7th grade as well as 12th grade.
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WYTHEVILLE, Va. – Hockey excitement is starting early in the New River Valley as Wytheville officials unveiled the new hockey team for the area.
Wytheville officials made this announcement at the new facility, the Apex Center.
“I can’t go anywhere in the community without somebody asking me about hockey,” said Matthew Hankins, assistant county administrator of Wythe County. “We’ve been looking forward to finding out what the team is called and we are glad they picked a name that is representative of the region.”
The new team’s name will be the Blue Ridge Bobcats. Town leaders said the facility will hold much more than just hockey games.
They said they hope the new building will help during the town’s off-season and plan to have events like ice skating, concerts, and potentially other sports teams.
At the event, the team owner was there to speak on the entire process of picking the team’s name and the struggles of keeping everything a secret.
“The last team’s name I mentioned, it was leaked out. It was leaked out before I even had it as a name,” said Barry Soskins, owner of the hockey team.
He said though it has been stressful, he is still excited about everything coming together.
“You plan for one thing, and you do something completely different,” said Hoskins. “Danny has a lot to work to do, and that is probably the biggest thing.”
Town officials said the plan is to have ice down by the end of September, and then have the facility open to the public soon after.
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MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Buc-ee's runs on a road trip are a staple for proud Texans. They're also a spectacle for out-of-state visitors.
The Buc-ee's brand cannot be mistaken, and the Texas-based company is serious about protecting it, especially when a knock-off goes viral online. Someone in Mexico is opening a Mercado that's an off-brand version of Buc-ee's called "Buk-II's," according to a Facebook post with thousands of shares.
WFAA reached out to Buc-ee's officials regarding the post and were sent the following statement:
"The Buc-ee’s brand represents clean restrooms, freshly prepared food, and great service. Buc-ee’s has invested heavily in innovation across the company to create and maintain these award-winning guest experiences. Accordingly, Buc-ee’s will not stand as an idle spectator while others use without permission the intellectual property that Buc-ee’s has cultivated for decades."
In the photo, you see the store donning the name "Buk-II's – Supermercado" with a gopher mascot instead of the well-known Buc-ee's beaver. Here is a look at the Facebook post:
The Facebook poster, Ramon Montelongo, told MySA the store was opening in Matamoros Tamaulipas, which is about 10 minutes south of the Los Indios Texas International Bridge. Montelongo told the San Antonio publication that the store will likely sell groceries, like fruits, vegetables, and possibly national and international beers.
The photo went viral online, garnering thousands of shares, comments and reactions since it was posted on July 24.
Buc-ee's is no stranger to taking legal action to protect its brand. In 2018, Buc-ee's won a trademark lawsuit against San Antonio's Choke Canyon rest stop chain, which had a cartoon alligator logo on a yellow circle. In 2013, Buc-ee's filed a lawsuit against Chick's, a stand-alone convenience store in Bryan, Texas, which was dismissed and settled out of court. In Uvalde County, general store B&B Grocery were sued after using a tubing beaver logo.
An art installation with Buc-ee's branding was created in the West Texas town of Sanderson, but it was later taken down, according to MySA.
Buc-ee's is known for its wide array of snacks, including the highly-renowned Beaver Nuggets. There are 45 Buc-ee's locations in the United States, 34 of which are in Texas. As more locations expand from state to state, the locations continue to get bigger, like the one coming to Central Florida.
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SAN ANTONIO — After helping lead his community through the aftermath of a school shooting that put the spotlight of an ongoing gun control debate on South Texas, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin is throwing his hat in the ring for state office.
McLaughlin announced his plans to run for Texas House District 80 in a July 14 press release, having served as mayor of the small San Antonio-area community of Uvalde since 2014. Uvalde City Council on Tuesday night approved a resolution to schedule a special election on Nov. 7, at which point someone will be selected to serve the final year of McLaughlin's term.
"Entering this was race was a no-brainer for me," McLaughlin said in the release, adding that there's a "crisis" in Austin.
"Property tax relief, school choice, foreign land ownership, border control—these are all issues that should have been deal with sessions ago," he went on to say. "I am entering this race to be a strong voice for the people of District 80."
About 190,000 residents live in the district, which covers Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Uvalde and Zavala counties, as well as about a third of Webb County. Tracy King, the Democrat and Uvalde native who has held the seat since 2005, reportedly announced earlier this month his intention to retire.
McLaughlin is touting himself as a "strong conservative Republican" who emphasizes the importance of a large law enforcement presence and partnership network between agencies.
McLaughlin emerged as a central figure in the aftermath of the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, when 19 students and two teachers were gunned down. He was resilient when receiving criticism from victim's families in the weeks following the shooting amid calls for accountability and transparency. His subsequent efforts to conduct an internal investigation into the botched law enforcement response have been stymied by the Uvalde District Attorney's office.
McLaughlin says he's a lifelong resident of Uvalde, calling himself "a successful businessman" who is "very active in his church and community."
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EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. — A House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee held an historic hearing on unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. A whistleblower testified to the fact that U.S. has been concealing a longstanding program that retreives and reverse engineers UFOs, however, the Pentagon has denied his claims.
Retired Maj. David Grusch said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force's mission. At the time, Grusch was detailed to the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that operates U.S. spy satellites.
“I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access,” he said.
Asked whether the U.S. government had information about extraterrestrial life, Grusch said the U.S. likely has been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s.
Lawmakers heard from two other witnesses who claim to have come in contact with these objects.
Retired Navy Commander David Fravor testified about an encounter he cannot explain... a "Tic Tac" shaped object he says he saw in the sky during a training mission in 2004. "The technology that we faced was far superior than anything that we have," Fravor said.
For David Fravor's full statement for the House Oversight Committee, click here.
Federal lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are demanding more transparency from the US department of defense. Lawmakers in the hearing said they'd like to talk to the witnesses again in a classified setting to learn more.
Pentagon officials in December said they had received “several hundreds” of new reports since launching a renewed effort to investigate reports of UFOs.
But here in Arkansas, Adnan Ademovic with the Ozark Mountain UFO Conference said the hearings help add legitimacy to the subject.
"What is exciting about it is if you, prior to this, were to talk about this with family members or at the kitchen table, this would be a crazy conspiracy realm and now they can actually look at this in a different light," Ademovic said. "To where they can say, 'hold on, they just talked about this in the congressional hearing... can you still call it a conspiracy?'"
The group meets every year in April and will meet again next year from April 12 to the 14.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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SPRINGDALE, Arkansas — The Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese (ACOM) is hosting the 4th annual Stroll the Atolls event at Shiloh Square in Springdale.
The festival celebrates the Marshallese culture and heritage with the Northwest Arkansas community and beyond. This year's theme for the festival is navigation.
They'll showcase how their community has navigated for thousands of years using primitive knowledge. One tool their coordinators have presented is the Medo, or a stick chart that maps out the stars, ocean waves and currents, and the locations of the islands.
The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History partnered with ACOM to put on a Marshallese Weaving Workshop. The interactive workshop will have weaving demonstrations and opportunities for guests to try it out. It takes place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the event.
Anyone visiting the festival can expect a full afternoon of traditional live music, food, and dances. The event won't exclusively showcase the Marshallese community, however, as there are other Pacific islands represented with vendors expected.
In previous years, the event was held at the Jones Center before making its way to Shiloh Square. It may be their biggest event yet as ACOM says they've doubled the number of vendors compared to 2022 Stroll the Atolls. Emma Avenue will be closed as their vendors and stages will spill out from Shiloh Square to the surrounding area.
The festival will take place at Shiloh Square from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, you can visit the ACOM website.
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Abandoned hotel by the falls may come down
The city of Wichita Falls may move forward with plans to acquire and tear down an abandoned and derelict hotel by the waterfalls off Central Freeway.
On Tuesday, city councilors will consider acquiring the property where the hotel sits just north of the Wichita River.
The ordinance proposes using the power of eminent domain, if necessary, for the acquisition of the property.
The land would be turned into a public park. The city already owns adjacent land, including an RV park and a recently acquired 14 acre tract of open land.
The item to be considered Tuesday points out the city’s staff will continue to attempt to reach an agreement with the owner. If that doesn’t work, the city could file a petition for eminent domain.
The hotel was constructed after the City Council and the Wichita County Commissioners approved the sale of up to $10 million in industrial revenue bonds in 1983. Two businessmen from Stillwater, Okla. built the 170-room facility, which opened on Oct. 1,1985, but was plagued from the beginning with the issues related to being in a flood-prone area near the river. It was nearly inundated during construction in 1985 and floodwater reached it several times in subsequent years.
The hotel was closed for a period of time after a major flood in 2007 swamped it and forced evacuation of guests.
City leaders initially had concerns about flooding because the hotel was in a floodway, but the Corps of Engineers revised their drawings to accommodate its construction..
In its heyday, the Sheraton was a premier local hotel, hosting many community events in its 5,000 square-foot ballroom, including a gala for then-Vice President George Bush.
The hotel changed hands and names several times over the years and eventually fell into disrepair. The building racked up numerous ordinance violations. It was vacated about 2012 and became a hangout for vagrants. Wichita Falls Police have made numerous calls to the location. It has also become a setting for You Tube videos made by urban-decay explorers.
The Wichita Appraisal District lists the current owners as Wichita Falls Hospitality Inc. in Durant, Okla. The property's value is listed as $1.5 million.
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Council to consider new police, fire facilities
Wichita Falls city councilors on Tuesday may take initial steps toward building new police and fire department facilities.
Councilors will consider spending $169,000 on architectural firms to conduct a study on upgrading or replacing some facilities.
Those facilities are police headquarters currently located at 610 Holliday St., Fire Station No. 1 at 1001 Bluff St., Fire Station No. 2 at 425 Bonner St., Fire Station No. 4 at 5512 Castle Rd. and Fire Station No. 6 at 4812 Johnson Rd.
The money would go to Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, Inc. in association with Bundy, Young, Sims, and Potter Architects.
“These facilities currently do not provide adequate space for the existing staff and the operations they support,” the city staff said in placing the item for consideration by councilors.
In 2017, the city developed a plan from a similar study to build new police headquarters, central fire station and city hall. The result was a $77 million bond question that was defeated by voters three to one.
The new study does not include a city hall and would help determine costs for the other buildings.
The city has since allocated $12.5 million of its $29.1 million in federal COVID-19 relief money to renovate Municipal Auditorium, which houses City Hall.
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Residents in nearby towns not under WF water rules
Wichita Falls residents face fines if they violate the city’s Stage 1 Drought water use restrictions, however people who use city water but don’t live in Wichita Falls do not necessarily have to abide by the same rules.
In addition to providing water to residents and businesses in Wichita Falls, the city sells water to outlying communities.
Communities that buy water from Wichita Falls must reduce consumption to the level required in each stage of drought. That means in the current Stage 1, they must reduce consumption by five percent.
But city spokesperson Chris Horgen said it’s up to each community how they reach that goal. Wichita Falls does not impose restrictions on those individual residents.
Wichita Falls also does not impose penalties on communities that do not hit their reduction goals, Horgen said.
Wichita Falls sells either raw water or treated water to several outside communities. At present, the rate for raw water is 64 cents per 1,000 gallons and $3.93 per 100 cubic feet of treated water. Those rates are likely to go up to 69 cents and $4.24 respectively once a new city budget takes effect in October.
That’s the same time Wichita Falls residents will see a five percent increase in their household water bills to an average $64.45 per month, including sewer service.
The city also sells water to large industrial users, but those users are not under any restrictions on their operations in Stage One Drought Watch.
“Most of the big industrial users put water-saving projects together during or just after the last drought,” Horgen said. Those companies do have to abide by the outdoor water sprinkler restrictions, though.
Communities that buy water from Wichita Falls include: Sheppard Air Force Base, Archer County, Burkburnett, Dean Dale, Friberg-Cooper Water Supply, Holliday, Iowa Park, Lakeside City, Pleasant Valley, Scotland, Olney, Archer City, the Red River Authority, Windthorst and Wichita Valley Water Supply.
North Texas has been in some degree of drought most of the time since early 2022. Drought and high temperatures have reduced the combined capacity of lakes Arrowhead and Kickapoo to below 65 percent, the level at which the first stage of water use restrictions kick in.
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Though malaria cases are waning, you should still take precautions, Sarasota County says
If Sarasota County continues to see no new malaria cases, the local mosquito-borne illness alert is expected to be lifted in early September, the county’s communications director said Thursday.
Sarasota and Manatee counties have been under the alert since June 19 because of an outbreak of locally acquired malaria. A total of seven cases have been reported in Sarasota County, but no new cases were reported last week. The same was true during the week of July 2-8.
Sarasota County and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted a media briefing on the outbreak on Thursday. Jamie Carson, the county’s director of communications, said the mosquito-borne illness alert will remain in place until the county has gone approximately eight weeks without new cases. She said the last case was on July 13, so the alert could potentially be lifted around Sept. 7.
Carson said that hopefully Sarasota County is on “the right track,” but she noted that community members are still encouraged to take precautions against mosquito bites.
Under the alert, Sarasota-Manatee residents are being advised to apply mosquito repellant and to avoid being outside at nighttime if possible. If you can’t avoid it, you should wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants and insect repellant on your clothing, according to Wade Brennan, the manager of Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services.
All seven cases were in the Desoto Acres and Kensington Park areas in north Sarasota County. The individuals have been treated and are recovering, Carson said.
She also told members of the media that three of the cases were in homeless individuals. The Florida Department of Health’s Sarasota County office has been working with local homeless service organizations, providing them with information and materials. Sixty mosquito bed nets and more than 1,000 cans of insect repellant have been provided to homeless individuals, Carson said.
The onset of the first case of locally acquired malaria was in May, the following five were in June and the most recent one was in July, according to a Florida Department of Health report. Kelly Searle, a malaria researcher at the University of Minnesota, told the Herald-Tribune that seeing fewer cases and having weeks where there are no cases “is definitely a good sign.” She said it’s an indication that mosquito control efforts are working.
The term “locally acquired malaria” means that the individuals contracted the disease from mosquitoes in the Sarasota area. This kind of malaria is very rare, as the vast majority of malaria cases in the U.S. are in travelers or other people returning to the country from nations where there is transmission of malaria.
The last outbreak of locally acquired malaria in the U.S. was in 2003, when Palm Beach County saw eight such cases.
Previously:'A good sign': No new cases of malaria were reported in Sarasota County last week
Other news:New College of Florida nets record number of new students, but at academic cost
Audrey Lenhart, the chief of the Entomology Branch in the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria at the CDC, said at Thursday’s press briefing that her agency has been testing mosquitoes trapped by Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services, which has helped them know where in the county to intensify mosquito control efforts. Three of the mosquitoes tested positive for malaria, and they came from the same wooded area, Brennan said last month. The three were collected in early June.
Sarasota County is inviting community members to an event on Friday, Aug. 4, where they can learn more about Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services and their work. Mosquito Management Services staff will give a short presentation about department operations and how residents can protect themselves from mosquito bites. They will also answer questions from attendees. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. and will be at the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex in Sarasota.
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NEWBURGH -- A massive estate sale touting unique historic items will be taking place on July 29th and 30th at 2909 western avenue in Newburgh.
The collection is the lifelong work of Maine-based historian Amos Kimball whose menagerie features items ranging from model t fords to 90s baseball cards.
Auctioneer Rusty Farrin says, "In my forty-five career, it's the biggest undertaking I've ever taken on. He just had a love of antiques and collections. Many people tried to buy stuff from him and he never just would never let anything loose. He was a true collector."
Kimballs' hodgepodge is so extensive it easily overwhelms four canopy tents and a barn, when put on display, leaving veteran antiquers like Cathy Robishaw at a loss for words, she says, "So I knew there would be some things to look at but I never thought it would be this much stuff."
If you want to check out everything before the action starts or if you want to get in early to set up your game plan, there will be one more day of previews on the 28th from 10:30 am to 4 pm.
Farrin says he's anticipating hundreds will attend the estate sale with many coming from all over the country.
If you plan on going, he's got one piece of advice, he says, "Just come out and bid high and bid often."
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BANGOR -- The Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center has been using what's known as the Cell-Saver Program to collect blood lost during surgery, clean it, and safely give it back to patients.
"The surgeon extracts the blood with suction, it goes into a reservoir on the Cell-Saver machine. It goes into a bowl that spins, processes, and extracts. We are washing all that blood. It goes into a re-infuse bag and the CRNA can administer that blood back to the patient," said Jon Seifert, O.R.A. educator at Northern Light EMMC.
The method has been used by the medical center to decrease blood loss during surgery and as an alternative for those who object to blood transfusions for religious or other reasons.
"We're able to give them back their own, more safe, blood because we know it's theirs... rather than give them blood from a donor -- which is very safe -- but can have problems associated with it, like reactions to the blood and so forth," said Dr. Kael Mikesell, medical director of patient blood management at Northern Light EMMC.
The Cell-Saver Program was originally launched at EMMC by cardiac nurses.
However, the center recently expanded the program by training a group of anesthesia technicians.
"We're seeing an excitement from these anesthesia techs. They want to know how to do this, how to be good at it, and they want to grow their career in this way," said Mikesell.
Northern Light medical professionals say that expanding this cell-saver program provides a number of benefits for both patients and staff.
"A patient sometimes, if their blood level drops a little bit, they have to stay the night. We're able to give back their blood, so they can go home that same surgery," said Seifert.
Staff say the program has been used at the center for nearly 20 years.
"To have it here in Bangor, Maine at a community hospital is pretty unique," said Mikesell. "This is a location where you can come to get what you need, to be able to get the treatment the way that you want it."
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Motorcyclist killed in collision on Clinton Highway
Liz Kellar
Knoxville News Sentinel
A 44-year-old Tennessee man was killed in an early-morning collision when his motorcycle was hit by a sedan on Clinton Highway on July 27, according to a preliminary report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Christopher Phillips was on a motorcycle and traveling north on Highway 25 near Claxton in Anderson County just before 7 a.m., the report said. A car traveling southbound crossed the center line into the northbound lane and hit the motorcycle, the report said.
Phillips, who was wearing a helmet, was killed, the report said.
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ORNL's new director Stephen Streiffer brings national lab and COVID-19 leadership
Stephen K. Streiffer will be the next director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the lab announced July 27.
At ORNL, Streiffer will oversee the nation's largest science and energy laboratory, with 6,000 employees and an annual research budget of around $2.5 billion.
Streiffer is well acquainted with what it takes to lead a large national lab. The material scientist and engineer, who spent 24 years at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, was appointed by UT-Battelle, the company that manages ORNL for the Department of Energy. His tenure will begin in October.
Currently, Streiffer serves as interim director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a DOE facility operated by Stanford University.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he also served as co-director of the DOE's National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory, a consortium of national laboratories including ORNL that studied testing, treatment and computer modeling to address the monumental public health challenge.
“Stephen is a proven leader with diverse experience and a commitment to mission-driven research and development,” said Lou Von Thaer, CEO of Battelle and chair of UT-Battelle. “Throughout his career, Stephen has leveraged existing strengths to create new opportunities and partnerships that strengthen our nation’s ability to innovate and compete.”
ORNL's broad range of research capabilities include Frontier, the world's fastest supercomputer, and the Spallation Neutron Source, a particle accelerator that supports research in energy and transportation and broke a world record for power earlier this month.
The lab hosts nine user facilities that allow over 3,200 scientists a year from universities, private companies and other labs across the nation to conduct research in fields from biology to physics and engineering.
“Our national laboratories provide scientists with access to some of the most powerful research facilities in the world, and Stephen has been a key leader in the development of these capabilities,” said Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, director of DOE’s Office of Science. “At Oak Ridge, Stephen’s experience will help to ensure continued impact that benefits the nation and world.”
At Argonne, his career culminated in his role as deputy director for science and technology. Before that, he led the lab's physical sciences and engineering divisions and served as director of the Advanced Photon Source, a user facility currently undergoing a $815 million upgrade. From 2000 to 2009, he led development of the lab's Center for Nanoscale Materials.
“I was fortunate to work closely with Stephen at Argonne, so I’ve seen his commitment to teamwork and his ability to build support first-hand,” said Mark Peters, Battelle’s executive vice president of Laboratory Management and Operations.
Streiffer holds a doctorate degree in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor's in materials science from Rice University.
“I’ve collaborated with ORNL and its extremely talented staff for many years," Streiffer said. "It’s a great honor to be selected as lab director and to join the team, and I’m committed to continuing the transformative role Oak Ridge has played in our nation’s scientific enterprise for almost 80 years.”
ORNL's former director, Thomas Zacharia, retired at the end of 2022 after five years as director. During his tenure, the lab advanced its supercomputing capabilities and its national security research. Jeff Smith, who retired from ORNL in April 2021 after 21 years as deputy of operations, is serving as interim director.
The months-long search for a new director was conducted by a committee of 14 scientists and leaders from ORNL and UT-Battelle, a partnership of the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute that operates the lab.
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LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Neighbors are taking Lee County to court to stop massive development from stealing Alva’s countryside charm.
Six names are listed on a petition, suing the county and Lee County Commissioner Mike Greenwell over the recent rezoning of land for shops and apartments. The 76-acre property is owned by Greenwell and sits along S.R. 31, between the Lee Civic Center and Babcock Ranch.
Tony Flammia is one of the neighbors who lives near the site, appealing the June decision to convert the farmland where a 400-square-foot shopping center and 122-apartment complex are planned.
“Our whole community is about to be changed and we don’t have a say so in any of it,” said Flammia. “There’s a lot of people out there that know where Alva is. There’s a lot of people that come out here just for a Sunday drive. There’s these massive oak trees that cover the road…you don’t see that in Lee County.”
The more than 50-page appeal claims the land was rezoned incorrectly, commissioners ignored environmental concerns and went against community input.
“I don’t know anybody out here who wants that to go through,” said Mary Stringer.
Stringer and her neighbors say traffic on S.R. 31 can’t handle all the future development planned for the area.
“The traffic is so bad that sometimes you wait 20-30 min to turn on the road, to get my grandson to school. The traffic is that bad!” she said.
That’s not the only future development these neighbors are worried about changing their rustic lifestyle. The Sarasota-based company, Neal Communities, is asking Lee County to rezone more than 700 acres for a development with plans for more than a thousand homes on a piece of property between North River Road and Duke Highway as early as 2025.
Joe Spena said Alva already looks a lot different than it did 30 years ago, yet he considers it one of the very last parts of “Old Florida,” left.
“This road, people used to ride their horses down and tie them up on the trees,” said Spena. “Nowadays, it’s too dangerous. Florida is losing its value in what it was valued for.”
“When you’re fighting big money and politics .. it’s hard,” said Flammia. “I came from LA and lived out there in the concrete jungle so the last thing I wanted to do was to be in a place like that again, so this was an answered prayer.”
Flammia and the other neighbors in the appeal are planning to form a coalition to protect Alva from overdevelopment. They’re hoping by filing the legal action, other neighbors will join their fight.
We reached out to the county and Commissioner Greenwell Wednesday, but they haven’t gotten back to us about the petition yet.
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Two separate vehicle crashes left three dead Thursday.
Just after 6 a.m., Idaho State Police responded to a four-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway20 at mile marker 286.5, west of Idaho Falls, in which two people died, an Idaho State Police news release said.
A separate crash Thursday afternoonat exit 118 off of Interstate 15 resulted in one fatality.
Bonneville County Coroner Rick Taylor released the names of the deceased at the U.S. 20 crash site as 25-year-old Angelica Riojas, of Shelley, and 49-year-old Jeremy Jennings, of Idaho Falls.
Riojas was driving east on U.S. 20 ina 2009 Dodge Journey when the vehicle crossed the center line into the oncoming lane. The Journey sideswiped a westbound 2013 Dodge Charger, driven by a 43-year-old male from Rigby, the release said.
The Journey continued down the westbound lane and hit a 2006 Nissan Sentra, driven by Jennings. Another vehicle was behind the Sentra, unable to stop. A westbound2012 Ford F-150 driven by a 61-year-old male from Dillsboro, Indiana, was unable to stop and hit the Journey, the release said.
Neither Riojas nor Jennings were wearing a seat belt and were pronounced deceased at the scene. The drivers of the Charger and the F-150, as well as two juveniles in Riojas' vehicle all were wearing seat belts. They all were taken to local hospitals by a ground ambulance, the release said.
The area on U.S. 20 where the crash occurred was blocked off for three hours and 45 minutes until emergency crews cleared the scene.
The crash remains under investigation by the Idaho State Police.
The second crash that resulted in a fatalityoccurred around noon Thursday at the 118 exit, at Broadway, off of I-15.
A 2018 Toyota Tacoma, driven by a 26-year-old Idaho Falls man, was heading north on I-15 when it entered the 118 exit.
The Tacoma failed to yield to an 82-year-old female in the crosswalk on a mobility scooter, an Idaho State Police news release said.
The Tacoma hit the scooter in the intersection. Taylor identified the deceased as Clarissa Jones of Idaho Falls.
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The Hayden fire, 18 miles west of Leadore, was closing in on 15,000 acres as of Thursday morning and it remained 0% contained.
A community meeting about the fire is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, July 27, at the Idaho Fish and Game Office in Salmon.
The Hayden fire, 18 miles west of Leadore, was closing in on 15,000 acres as of Thursday morning and it remained 0% contained.
A community meeting about the fire is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, July 27, at the Idaho Fish and Game Office in Salmon.
There are now 624 personnel fighting the blaze, which is burning in steep, difficult terrain with spruce/subalpine fir containing a heavy concentration of dead and down timber, a Salmon-Challis National Forest news release said.
Forest officials describe the blaze as a full-suppression fire and said in the release that firefighters are "working long hours every day working to contain the fire as quickly as they can, impacting the fewest acres possible."
Firefighters continue to battle gusty winds and low relative humidity. On Thursday, southwesterly winds with gusts up to 35 miles per hour were hindering containment efforts. The unfavorable weather conditions are expected to last throughout the week.
Most of the fire activity and growth is taking place from the East Fork of Hayden Creek into Little Mill Creek, Bates Gulch and Jack Smith Gulch, the release said. The fire perimeter is still within primary containment lines. In areas where those primary containment lines are completed, crews are increasing the depth of those lines or constructing contingency lines, the release said. In an effort to build an anchor point to continue containment lines in the northern area of the fire, resources conducted burnout operations supported by aircraft in the area of Kadletz Creek and the Bear Valley Road.
Stage 1 fire restrictions start at 12:01 a.m. Friday, the release said.
Under Stage 1 restrictions, the following acts are prohibited:
• Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire except within a designated recreation site, or on their own land, and only within an owner-provided fire structure (see definition).
• Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle, building, or designated recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials.
For additional information on fire restrictions, go to idl.idaho.gov/fire-management/fire-restrictions-finder/.
Additionally, Salmon-Challis National Forest officials have modified the fire closure order, which can be viewed at the Alerts and Notices section of the SCNF website.
The Lemhi County Sheriff’s Department in coordination with the Salmon-Challis National Forest and Great Basin Team 7 has pre-identified evacuation zones. They will be implemented using the “Ready, Set, Go” terminology.
For information on the evacuation zones, visit the Lemhi County website at lemhicountyidaho.org.
Nationally, 48 large fires have burned 231,512 acres in nine states as of Thursday, the National Interagency Fire Center reports. Four fires are burning in Idaho. Thirteen new large fires were reported Wednesday, five in Alaska, three in New Mexico, two in Texas, and Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming each had one.
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AUBURN, Calif. — A woman died Thursday afternoon after hitting a tree and overturning in Auburn.
According to California Highway Patrol, it happened around 1 p.m. on Bell Road near Blue Heron Court.
CHP says the 70-year-old woman was speeding when she hit a curve in the road. The vehicle went airborne, hit a tree and overturned.
The woman died from her injuries at the scene.
No other information is available at this time.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento resident Margaret Veldman goes door-to-door letting neighbors know about her job painting addresses on the curbs of homes — it's called address stenciling. She doesn't think much of it when no one answers the door.
But she was surprised when she logged onto NextDoor and saw her and her coworker featured in a post warning others about them. The post included videos of them walking up to the doors of residences and knocking, and pacing for a moment before leaving.
Veldman says she felt the need to defend herself as people speculated on her identity, the identity of her coworker and their motives.
She made a post of her own explaining she goes door-to-door looking for folks who are looking for custom designs and personal touches on address stenciling.
"I really don't have anything bad to say about the people commenting saying all those mean things because I hope this is an opportunity for them to realize they're part of whatever issues we have around the community," said Veldman. "It's habitual negativity."
She says her coworker stopped accompanying her after seeing the posts. It was a good side job, but Veldman says the embarrassment from being mischaracterized might have scared her from returning.
She says they first met in a laundromat when Veldman helped her with a wagon filled with belongings that had fallen over.
"She was very motivated, taking initiative like a go-getter," said Veldman. "She was on her way to being a full partner and that was only her second day when those videos were posted."
Sacramento County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Amar Gandhi says neighborhood residents will occasionally contact law enforcement to report potential scammers posing as PG&E.
"We get a call here and there about solicitors being too aggressive, but very rarely," he said.
Veldman says she's received a lot of positive messages and even increased interest in her stenciling after responding to the original post.
"I was really trying to just get more work," she said. "At this point, I'm ready to roll with it and do what I can without feeling so limited."
Colonial Heights resident Cherie Gordon responded to Veldman's post and invited her with another friend to stencil her address on the curb. According to Sacramento city code compliance, homeowners are permitted to paint house numbers on their curb.
Gordon requested she add an iron butterfly to both sides of the drawing and Veldman painted them light purple.
"I was so impressed with their product that I ordered business cards for them that a friend of mine designed and paid for," Gordon told ABC10. "Henceforth, I am hiring (them) again for another sign in my renter's yard."
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FOLSOM, Calif — Three men who used replica airsoft guns during an armed robbery in Folsom were arrested Tuesday, according to the Folsom Police Department.
Mathew Davis, 20, Anthony Wilson, 20, and Kendell Frye, 20, are accused of robbery and conspiracy.
The Folsom Police Department says officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at a Walmart on July 23. The victim said three people followed him to the parking lot and held him at gunpoint while demanding money.
Investigators used video surveillance and a vehicle description to identify the suspects and locate them.
Officers detained the people who were in the car and found the home address of the other suspects.
Detectives and SWAT executed a search warrant and arrested all three suspects at a home on the 100 block of Witmer Drive.
Police say the firearms used during the robbery were found to be replica airsoft guns.
Davis, Wilson and Frye were all booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — If you’re on TikTok, then you probably recognize the name David Suh. The UC Davis alum and former Sacramento resident is a TikTok sensation. He is teaching people all over the world how to find their confidence in front of the camera.
Suh has garnered 4.7 million TikTok followers thanks to his tips and tricks on how to strike the best pose. Scroll through his page and you’ll find him donning skirts and bras to help followers achieve “hot girl summer pics” or teaching those who may be camera-shy how to work a bold stance.
While posing is what he’s known for, the viral photographer says his focus is making sure people feel safe, empowered and celebrated whether online or during photoshoots at his Los Angeles studio – and that’s what he believes draws people to him.
“I spend a lot of time just being really curious about every individual,” said Suh. “Are there parts that you do want to show off about yourself? What do you love about yourself? What are you working on? Let me not assume insecurities that you might have. Let's talk about that. And then we [can] create a pose and movement for you that will empower you.”
He credits his people-pleasing tendencies for the way he approaches his photography.
“I am very aware of the energy around me when I’m photographing someone,” said Suh. “I can tell right away if they’re being conscious about their movements or feeling awkward, and I sense it right away. I know how to cater to that.”
His love for photography started thanks to another love: dancing. He picked up a camera for the first time in middle school to record himself dancing. Soon enough, he was the kid running around school taking pictures of his friends.
But growing up in East Asia, Suh didn’t expect the career trajectory he’s on now. Living in both Korea and Hong Kong, he didn't think pursuing a creative path was possible because academics were put on a pedestal.
“I think for the first year and a half or two [of college was] very much still dismissing the possibilities of [photography] turning into anything bigger...” said Suh.
That mentality didn’t halt his passions for too long. While at UC Davis, he says taking photography classes, joining student-run photography clubs and attending conferences helped expand his mindset and fortify his career choice.
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After graduation, Suh began his first photography studio in Sacramento. Then, the coronavirus pandemic hit, and although he couldn’t operate his business, that didn’t deter him – in fact, he saw it as a “silver lining.”
With the newfound time, he was working on personal projects that were sidelined from starting a small business. All the while, he was going back to his roots: recording himself dancing, but this time, it was combined with teaching people about photography. He would post his dances and skits on TikTok, which started going viral. He soon became a TikTok sensation attracting clients from across the country and even globally. With the buzz, he decided to move to Los Angeles.
“The big reason I moved was to really see how I can balance this world of owning a photography studio, and that business and then now this whole crazy social media thing that happened overnight,” said Suh. “So, moving over, I wanted to make sure I got a beautiful studio that was an upgrade from Sacramento.”
David Suh Photography has been located in East Hollywood for over two years now.
“I fell in love with the space right away and it's beautiful [and] it's turning into another evolution at the moment,” said Suh.
He is rebranding his business from David Suh Photography to DASU Studios with the hopes of amplifying his message of self-empowerment and the belief that anyone can be photogenic.
“As a photographer who started all this to take beautiful photos, I’m just like whoa, this is a healing experience? It has changed your life?” said Suh. “So, it’s me realizing the camera is a tool, the photography is an avenue for me, and in realizing that the camera is just a tool, I can have other people help me with this purpose of helping more people.”
Suh will be launching DASU Studios in mid-August. He'll be adding three more photographers to his staff roster to help offer more “incredible experiences and transformations.” He says clients can expect tea, music, dancing and falling in love with yourself – on top of a photoshoot.
“I truly want the space for people to [be about] challenging limiting beliefs, having conversations with themselves and others about who they are, what their identity is, how can they navigate and explore that in a curious way, in a nonjudgmental way and then learn to express and celebrate who they are and as a community as well,” said Suh.
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Oakland County voters to decide Southfield clerk, school requests for bonds, millages
Voters in Oakland County are headed to the polls on Aug. 8 to winnow the field for electing a new city clerk in Southfield and decide bond requests or millage renewals in three school districts.
In Southfield, four candidates are running in the primary for city clerk in Michigan's 12th most populous city and the third most populous in Oakland County. The city is a Democratic stronghold.
In October, Southfield Clerk Sherikia Hawkins resigned after pleading no contest to election-related charges filed by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office in 2019.
Primary candidates for city clerk are Gabi Grossbard, Janet Jackson, Jay Reid and Barbara Seldon. The two top vote-getters will advance to the November election.
Grossbard, 50, a small business owner and a licensed Medicare specialist who assists seniors with health plans, says he is a public servant at heart.
"I will address the damaged reputation caused by the previous clerk by working with the current office personnel to restore the public's trust and confidence in the clerk's office," Grossbard told The Detroit News in an email. "Also, I will direct the elections in an efficient, secure and transparent manner."
Jackson, 62, has been an Oakland County commissioner for 14 years and works in AT&T's administration. A 35-year resident of Southfield, Jackson says she is running to ensure that residents can depend on premier public services and the continuation of fair, complete and accurate elections.
"I look forward to enacting the enhanced early voting opportunities ... approved by our Michigan Legislature," Jackson told The News in an email. "Much of this work will be coordinated with the Oakland County clerk's office that I have worked with for 14 years. I will promote voter participation along with community groups, especially among our youngest voters addressing apathy, and also enhance opportunities for seniors to cast their ballots as well."
Seldon, a 30-year resident of Southfield, is retired from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry and is a U.S. Army veteran. She says her priorities are maintaining the integrity of city records.
Seldon, 80, told The News in an email she has "leadership and management skills, integrity, knowledge, passion and the willingness to learn and delegate" and is a "collaborator, good listener (and) I believe in transparency, accountability, integrity and advocacy."
Reid did not respond to a request for campaign information.
School bonds in Berkley, Clawson, Novi
The Berkley School District and Clawson Public Schools are asking voters to approve bond requests while Novi Community Schools has two millage requests on the ballot — a non-homestead operating millage and a recreation millage.
Berkley's bond proposal asks for $88 million to spend on multi-purpose additions at all elementary schools, performing arts upgrades and additions, athletics upgrades and additions, new spaces for robotics, districtwide technology upgrades and classroom furniture. Part of the plan is for construction of a new field house that would be placed across from the district's only high school.
"The 2023 Bond would touch every K-12 classroom, many of our community spaces, and provide the opportunity for a full upgrade to our student and staff daily experiences," Berkley Superintendent Scott Francis told families in an email about the upcoming request.
In Clawson Public Schools, voters are being asked to approve a bond for $25.5 million for facilities investments.
Voters approved a bond in 2021 for improvements, but due to inflation from the COVID-19 pandemic and other market conditions, cost increases resulted in a budget shortfall that required the 2021 bond to have a strategically reduced scope, Clawson Superintendent Billy Shellenbarger said.
The new bond would allow the district to complete delayed renovations from the previous bond and address new ongoing school infrastructure projects based on facility assessments and community input, Shellenbarger said — all with no tax increase.
"This reduced scope eliminated some planned renovations including such items as new flooring, façade repairs, a middle school gym refresh and new paint at the high school." Shellenbarger said. "Let's finish this original scope of work we promised and take this opportunity and turn this into an amazing district."
In Novi Community Schools, voters are being asked to approve a non-homestead operating millage for 11 years and a recreation millage for 10 years.
The non-homestead operating millage is the school district's operating millage and has a direct effect on the per-pupil foundation allowance that the district receives from the state, Superintendent Ben Mainka said. This renewal, if approved, would keep the existing 18 mill tax levy on businesses, rental properties and second homes.
The recreation millage provides funding for maintenance and upkeep of the district's recreational facilities that are available for public use. They include community use of the high school pool, gymnasiums in all buildings, district fields and courts for soccer, basketball and tennis and senior citizen use of the auditorium and band room.
Mainka said the millages allow Novi to continue to offer the best educational program.
"The recreation millage allows our community and residents to enjoy our facilities, tennis courts, playgrounds, aquatics facilities, and much more," Mainka said. "We have appreciated the community continuing to support our recreation millages over the years, and on August 8, we will be asking them to consider renewing the current rate."
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FENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - Fenton Township residents have voted to change the name of Aanikegamaa Lake to Swan Lake.
The original name of Squaw Lake was changed in 2022 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to Aanikegamaa, so it would no longer be named after a slur for a native women.
Many residents said they had trouble pronouncing the new name, and the township supervisor started a process to give them a say.
Swan Lake, Swan Island Lake, Little Ponemah, Serenity Lake and Aanakagamaa Lake were the choices to rename the lake. Swan Lake received 85% of the vote. Aanakagamaa Lake did not receive a single vote.
The next step is to complete federal paperwork and submit it to Fenton Township.
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BALTIMORE — Baltimore Police are on scene for a barricade situation in West Baltimore.
Police were called to the 1600 block of West North Avenue in regards to the incident.
Residents are are asked to stay indoors at this time.
Crisis Intervention Officers, SWAT & Negotiators are on scene working towards a peacefully resolution.
W. North Ave from Fulton St to Penn. Ave is closed.
BPD is on scene of a barricade in the 1600 blk of W. North Ave. Residents nearby are asked to stay indoors. Crisis Intervention Officers, SWAT & Negotiators are on scene working towards a peacefully resolution. W. North Ave from Fulton St to Penn. Ave is closed. pic.twitter.com/6X2JgSGkJo
— Baltimore Police (@BaltimorePolice) July 27, 2023
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Baltimore seized seized a Los Angelos-bound shipment of 13,660 pairs of canvas-topped sneakers last Friday.
CBP officials say if authentic, the sneakers would have valued at $314,000.
On June 23, officers with the CBP inspected the shipment, manifested as shoes, after it arrived from China.
Once suspicions rose about the shoes, the shipment was detained.
Photos and documentation were later submitted to the CBP Office of Trade’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Branch (IPE) for an infringement determination.
The IPE confirmed that the shipment violated Converse's trademark on June 27.
Officers inventoried the entire contents of the shipment and on July 18 submitted an inventory list and pictures for appraisal to CBP's trade experts a the Apparel, Footwear, and Textile.
CBP officers seized the counterfeit Converse sneakers. No criminal charges were filed.
“Unscrupulous manufacturers and vendors illegally profit on the sale of substandard counterfeit products, such as these fake Chucks, at the expense and safety of American consumers,” said Adam Rottman, CBP’s Area Port Director for the Area Port of Baltimore. “Customs and Border Protection urges consumers to protect their health and wallets by buying authentic consumer goods from reputable or authorized vendors.”
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HARFORD COUNTY, Md. — Stay inside, that's the message from the Harford County Emergency Services as we weather this heat wave.
The Abingdon Library is one of cooling centers in Harford County, it’s one of the spots people can go to get out of the heat. As the temperatures are expected to be in the triple digits over the next couple of days, the county library hours have been extended.
High heat and humidity are continuing to increase.
"What we're concerned about it the heat index, they're saying over the next three days anywhere between 100 and 110,” said Harford County Emergency Services Director Rick Ayers.
Ayers has activated the cooling centers throughout the county. Meaning, on Thursday, every library will stay open until 8 in the evening.
"Some people in the county still do not have air conditioning, we're also concerned over the next three days there's a chance of severe weather and if we have power outages" said Ayers.
Ayers said the libraries will provide bottled water and activities for families-- making the experience pleasant for people that have to go there.
For those with questions about the heat or cooling centers-- the Emergency Operations Center staff is just a call away.
But some people don't have the luxury of staying out of the heat.
"This morning, I guess in particular, I was spraying myself off with the hose, just trying to keep cool,” said Chase Fowler, who is part of the 4H club.
He already had plans to be out at the Harford County Fairgrounds with his animals this week. He said while keeping himself cooled down he also keeps the animals chilled.
"Definitely keeping a lot of air movement on them, for the cows we put ice in their water,” said Fowler.
While he can't beat the heat, he does have one message for anyone who may be fighting to survive this summer weather, "Go to Harford County Library. Keep cool.”
All Harford County Libraries will be open until 8 p.m., Thursday but will close at normal business hours for the weekend.
Only the Abingdon and Aberdeen Libraries will stay open until 8 p.m., on Friday and Saturday.
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BALTIMORE — A mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint of his mail truck on Wednesday.
Postal Inspectors and police responded to the 100 block of Stonecroft Court in Baltimore for the report of a Letter Carrier robbery.
Officials say the suspect pulled out a weapon and demanded USPS equipment along with other personal property.
The suspect fled the area in the USPS vehicle, which has been recovered along with the USPS property that was taken.
The mail carrier was uninjured as a result of this incident.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone who may have any information regarding this incident is urged to the contact the US Postal Inspection Service at 1-877-876-2455.
Callers may remain anonymous, and a reward is being offered up to $50,000 for any information leaded to the arrest and conviction of the suspect(s).
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COLWICH, Kan. (KSNW) — A beloved Colwich business has announced they are closing.
Syl’s has announced that they have made the decision to sell the restaurant and catering service. The restaurant had operated in Colwich for the past 7 years, becoming a favorite spot of locals, including first responders who often dropped in for their daily lunch buffet.
In December, the owners announced over Facebook that they would be closing the restaurant to focus on the catering side. Thursday morning, the announced they were closing completely.
It is with a heavy heart that I have made the decision to sell the restaurant and catering. It has been a wonderful experience and I cherish all of the new friends (Extended family) I have gained through the last 7 years. On to the next chapter! I wish everyone the best.”
Syl’s
It’s not known yet who is purchasing the building or what they plan to do in the future, but KSN News has reached out to Syl’s to see who may soon occupy the space and is waiting for their response.
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ArcelorMittal reported a profit of nearly $1.9 billion in the second quarter, or $2.21 per share.
That's up from $1.1 billion in the first quarter, or $1.28 per share.
The Luxembourg-based steelmaker, whose North American operations are headquartered in Schererville, increased earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, to $2.6 billion in the second quarter, up from $1.8 billion in the first quarter.
“We have delivered a strong set of financials in the first half of the year, which reflect the improved market conditions and also the positive impact of recent strategic acquisitions. Both ArcelorMittal Pecém in Brazil and ArcelorMittal Texas HBI in the United States are making a valuable contribution, generating above expected EBITDA," CEO Aditya Mittal said. "Meanwhile, organic growth projects that will enhance our ability to produce higher added-value products in high-growth markets, as well as investments in our lower-carbon supply chains, are starting to demonstrate their potential."
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The steelmaker, which also operates ArcelorMittal Global R&D in East Chicago's Indiana Harbor neighborhood, earned EBITDA of $183 per ton in the second quarter, up from EBITDA of $126 a ton in the first quarter as a result of rising prices.
The company, which sold off its Region mills to Cleveland-Cliffs a few years ago, generated $1 billion in fresh cash flow during the quarter.
“We are making further strategic progress on our decarbonization agenda. Encouragingly, we have now received funding approval from the European Commission for our transformation projects in Belgium, Spain and France. This is an important milestone and we are now engaged in discussions with governments on the cost and availability of the clean energy needed to make these projects viable," Mittal said. "On the technology front, we are encouraged by the progress in direct electrolysis which has enabled us to commit to building the world’s first low-temperature iron electrolysis pilot plant. We continue to see growing demand from customers for our XCarb products and earlier this week the design for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic torch was unveiled, which is being made with our reduced-carbon steel. The torch has a beautiful, intricate design and reflects the admirable ambition of Paris 2024 to halve the carbon footprint compared with previous games."
ArcelorMittal ended the quarter with net debt of $4.5 billion or $700 million lower than the end of the first quarter. That's despite an ongoing stock buyback of $200 million in shares and awarding another $200 million in dividends to shareholders.
“Looking ahead, the company is in a good position and focused on delivering further strategic progress in the second half," Mittal said.
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Franciscan Health will host a girls' night out in which the ladies can gather to discuss their health.
The Mishawaka-based health care system which operates several hotels in Northwest Indiana, will host PJs, Popcorn & Girl Talk in Munster.
The event will take place at 5 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Theatre at the Center at 1040 Ridge Road in Munster. It will include health screenings, a movie, food, drinks, chair massages and healthcare information.
"Attendees are encouraged to come in their pajamas," Franciscan Health said in a press release. "The event features complimentary wine, soft drinks, popcorn, charcuterie, health screenings, chair massages, a showing of the movie 'Mamma Mia!' and a live panel discussion with medical professionals specializing in oncology."
Speakers include Breast Surgeon Cosmina Cristea, Medical Oncologist Meshaal Khan, Medical Oncologist Naina Mahngar, Cancer Genetic Counselor Malivka Praseed McGrail, Radiation Oncologist Robert Prock and OB/GYN Jessica Siegler.
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Doors open at 5 p.m. for the event, which is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer session about women's cancer will take place at 6:30 p.m. and the musical film starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Amanda Seyfriend belting out ABBA turns will follow immediately after.
"Prizes will be awarded for the best pajamas and other prize drawings will also take place," Franciscan Health said in a news release. "Attendees will receive a free pair of Vera Bradley slippers when the movie credits roll."
The event is free and open to the public but requires advance registration.
For more information or to register, call 1-800-931-3322.
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New parents and caregivers can get free car seats at an upcoming event.
Franciscan Health and Geminus Regional Health Systems will give away car seats at a car seat safety clinic from 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 4. Eligible parents and caregivers can get free car seats and learn how to use car seats properly and safely at the Franciscan Health Prenatal Assistance Program parking lot on Ogden Street just west of Hohman Avenue in Hammond.
"Car seats will be available free of charge to qualifying Indiana residents thanks to a generous grant from Geminus Regional Health Systems. The seats will be installed by a certified technician while supplies last," Franciscan Health said in a news release. "Caregivers must bring children to the event to allow the technicians to create a safe, proper fit."
The federal government estimates car crashes are the leading cause of death for children between 1 and 13 years old. As many as 40% of fatal crashes involved cars seats that were used incorrectly, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Car seats save an estimated 325 children under 5 years old every year.
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The hope is to save lives by helping put a dent in the 46% of cases where car seats are used incorrectly.
"The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration recommends all drivers who transport young children in passenger vehicles have their car seats checked by a certified technician," Franciscan Health said in a news release.
Registration is required. For more information or to register, call 219-852-7875 or visit www.franciscanhealth.org.
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Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, appeared walking into a Delaware courtroom Wednesday morning, where he is expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax crimes and admit to illegally possessing a firearm as a drug user.The anticipated pleas are part of a deal with the U.S. Department …
President Joe Biden announced Thursday his intention to nominate Hammond-based federal Magistrate Judge Joshua Kolar to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Kolar has been a magistrate judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana since 2019.
Kolar also serves as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He has served in the U.S. Navy Reserve since 2009 and was on active duty in Afghanistan from 2014 to 2015.
Previously, Kolar served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana from 2007 to 2018. He was the National Security Lead in that office from 2015 to 2018.
Kolar was an associate at Mayer Brown L.L.P. from 2006 to 2007 and 2003 to 2005. He served as a law clerk for Judge Wayne Andersen on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 2005 to 2006.
Kolar received his J.D. in 2003 and his B.A. in 1999, both from Northwestern University.
The seventh circuit includes Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Biden has appointed 140 federal judges in the U.S., more than Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush had during their presidencies. He has confirmed a record number of civil rights lawyers and public defenders. Of those confirmations, approximately 66% have been women and 66% have been people of color, according to data provided by the White House.
PHOTOS: Federal Courthouse in Hammond in national pollinator research
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A HealthyU Seminar by Northwest Health next month will teach parents how to keep their kids healthy during their athletic pursuits.
Orthopedic surgeon and the medical director of sports medicine at Northwest Health Anthony Levenda and athletic trainer Danielle McIntyre will give a talk entitled "Keeping Your Athlete Healthy and in the Game" from 6 to 7 p.m. Aug. 1 at the Great Hall Events and Conference Center at Purdue University Northwest located at 1401 South U.S. 421 in Westville.
They will cover best practices "for keeping your student athlete happy, healthy and injury-free to stay in the game."
"During the presentation, Dr. Levenda and McIntyre will share their game plan — from a nutritious well-balanced diet and proper hydration, to ensuring adequate rest and recovery time to help prevent injuries — and explain how these healthy, science-based habits can make or break an athlete’s season," Northwest Health said in a press release.
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It's part of an ongoing series of HealthyU Seminars meant to educate the public on health and wellness issues. The classes are free and open to the public, which can nibble on healthy snacks there.
Registration is encouraged.
For more information or to register, visit nwhinfo.com/healthy_athlete.
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Horizon Bancorp, the parent company of Horizon Bank, reported an $18.8 million profit or 43 cents per share in the second quarter.
That's up from $18.2 million or $0.42 per share in the first quarter.
“Horizon’s favorable second-quarter earnings reflect the strength of our diversified business model across our retail, commercial and wealth platforms,” President and CEO Thomas Prame said. “Our seasoned and granular deposit base performed well, maintaining a measured approach to funding costs while navigating a highly competitive market and shifting client demand to interest-bearing products. These efforts paired well with our strategy of focusing loan production on higher-yielding categories, resulting in improved yields and spread income. In the second quarter, we also posted strong non–interest income growth, with the active engagement of our clients in card spending and mortgage banking services. The positive results of our core revenue drivers were complimented by our consistent credit quality strength and our long-standing expense management discipline.”
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The Michigan City-based bank increased net interest income to $46.2 million in the second quarter, up from $45.2 million in the second quarter of 2022. Non-interest income grew to $11 million in the second quarter, up from $9.6 million in the second quarter of 2022.
Deposits ticked up slightly from $5.7 billion at the end of the first quarter to $5.71 billion at the end of the second quarter.
Loans were at a 2.2% annualized rate to $4.27 billion at the end of the second quarter, up from $4.25 billion at the end of the first quarter as mortgage activity increased because of client demand.
"Horizon’s unwavering focus on lending to well-qualified commercial and consumer borrowers in our dynamic local markets was reflected in our strong asset quality metrics,” Prame said. “Our consistent and conservative underwriting practices are expected to outperform relative to the industry, and we believe we are well positioned to navigate potential shifts in the economic outlook.”
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The 628-unit Evergreen Luxury Apartments will undergo extensive renovations and get a new property manager.
Chicago-based RMK Management Corp., which bills itself as "one of the Midwest’s largest market-rate apartment management firms," will manage the 628-unit apartment complex at 8201 Polo Club Drive in Merrillville. The 20-building property on U.S. 30 was constructed in 1995 and has more than 1,000 parking spaces, including 250 in garages.
Most apartments, the common areas and amenities spaces will undergo extensive renovations.
“Evergreen Luxury Apartments marks the second Merrillville rental community we’ve added to our property management portfolio in the past 12 months, which is a testament to the great work our teams are doing as we started managing our first property in the area last fall,” said Anthony Rossi Sr., chairman of Chicago-based RMK Management Corp.
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Evergreen Luxury Apartments has a variety of one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging from 700 square feet to 1,7000 square feet. The rents range from $1,090 to $2,020 a month.
The apartments have washers, dryers and walk-in closets. Some have balconies, private patios and fireplaces.
About 34 of the units have been overhauled so far under new ownership and the rest will be renovated as leases turn over.
New features include flooring, cabinetry, countertops, appliances, light fixtures, and washers and dryers. Updates also are planned to the dog park, fitness center, tennis courts and volleyball court.
The apartment complex has amenities like a gym, playground, BBQ pavilion, tennis court and clubhouse with a conference room and remote work lounge.
For more information, visit www.evergreenluxuryapartments.com.
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ANNISTON, Ala. (WIAT) — Three cooling stations will be open in Anniston ahead of predicted temperatures above 90 degrees starting Friday.
These are the following locations that will offer free public shelter from the heat:
- Interfaith Ministries of Calhoun County
- Address: 1431 Gurnee Ave, Anniston, AL 36201
- Open from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
- Phone: 256-237-1472
- The Right Place
- Address: 105 W 15th St, Anniston, AL 36201
- Open from 1:30 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
- Phone: 256-238-6231
- United Way Cooling Station at The Bridge
- Address: Anniston First United Methodist Church (1400 Noble St, Anniston, AL 36201)
- Open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday whenever the temperature is over 90 degrees.
- Phone: 256-848-7755
For more information, visit the City of Anniston’s website by clicking here.
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Heat wave prompts OCCK Transportation to offer free rides for all public transit services
In response to high temperatures forecast for the rest of the week, OCCK Transportation announced it is cutting fares and offering free rides Thursday and Friday.
On July 27 and 28, OCCK will offer free fares for all public transit services, including CityGo, 81 Connection, Regional Paratransit, GoAbilene and GoConcordia amid the recent heat wave across central Kansas.
The National Weather Service issued an advisory July 26 for dangerous heat to continue over several days. A hot weather pattern will prevail across central, south-central and southeast Kansas for several days. Afternoon and evening heat indexes will range from 100 to 110 degrees.
As part of its advisory, the National Weather Service reminds people to stay hydrated, limit strenuous outdoor activities, stay in an air-conditioned room when possible, take frequent breaks from the heat and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles.
Salina four-day forecast
Thursday: Sunny and hot with a high near 103 degrees. Heat index values as high as 108 degrees. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 20 miles per hour. Overnight low around 78.
Friday: Mostly sunny and hot with a high near 104 degrees and heat index values as high as 108 degrees. South southwest wind 11 to 15 miles per hour. Then a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1 a.m. Overnight low around 78 degrees.
Saturday: Sunny and hot with a high near 101 degrees. South wind around 7 to 10 miles per hour. Then a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening with a low around 72 degrees.
Sunday: Sunny at hot with a high near 101 degrees. Overnight low of around 77 degrees.
The forecast is according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
Kendrick Calfee has been a reporter with the Salina Journal since 2022, primarily covering government and education. You can reach him at kcalfee@gannett.com or on Twitter @calfee_kc.
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Millions of dollars are being spent across Ohio campaigning for and against Ohio Issue 1, the constitutional amendment on the Aug. 8 ballot that seeks to make it harder to amend the state’s constitution in the future, according to campaign finance forms filed with the Ohio Secretary of State by the Thursday deadline.
The official “No” campaign committee One Person One Vote out-raised the official “Yes” committee Protect Our Constitution $14.8 million to $4.9 million through July 19, reports show.
That does not include independent spending by other political action committees or several newly created organizations in support or opposition to Issue 1. The anti-abortion PAC called Protect Women Ohio, for example, reported raising $9.7 million and spending $8.7 million — at least $1.9 million on ads in support of Issue 1, according to Medium Buying.
Here’s a breakdown of campaign contributions and spending from the official Issue 1 campaigns reported Thursday:
Protect Our Constitution: Official ‘Yes’ campaign on Issue 1:
- Raised: $4.9 million
- Spent: $1.6 million
- On hand: $3.3 million
Where’d the money come from?
- Three largest out-of-state contributors:
- $4 million from Richard Uihleuin, an Illinois-based conservative mega donor and owner of Uline.
- $50,000 from Jimmy and Dee Haslam, Tennessee-based owners of the Cleveland Browns and the Columbus Crew.
- $30,000 from the Tennessee-based National Federation of Independent Business
- Three largest in-state contributors:
- $100,000 from 55 Green Meadows, a Lewis Center nonprofit associated with the Ohio Health Care Association, according to previous reporting from the Ohio Capital Journal.
- $150,000 from Save Ohio Jobs, a newly-created PAC that took in $250,000 from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.
- $50,000 apiece from Wholesale Beer and Wine, the Ohio State Association of Nurse Anesthetists and CME Group Inc.
Where’d the money go?
- Three largest expenditures:
- $500,000 in grants to Protect Our Kids Ohio, a newly-created PAC organization in Arlington, VA.
- $425,000 for digital advertising paid to Direct Persuasion in D.C.
- $309,892 for direct mail paid to Majority Strategies in Texas.
One Person One Vote: Official ‘No’ campaign against Issue 1
- Raised: $14.8 million
- Spent: $10.4 million
- On hand: $4.4 million
Where’d the money come from?
- Three largest out-of-state contributors:
- $2.5 million from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a progressive political fund based in D.C.
- $1.9 million from the Tides Foundation, a California-based social justice political fund
- $1 million from the American Advocacy Fund, a California-based political fund; plus $1 million from the National Education Association
- Three largest in-state contributors:
- $1 million from the Ohio Education Association, the state’s largest education union
- $500,000 from the Ohio Progressive Collaborative,
- $500,000 from the ACLU of Ohio
Where’d the money go?
- Three largest expenditures:
- $6.5 million in media buys paid to Sage Media in D.C.
- $2.9 million in ad buys paid to Uplift in California
- $278,038 in legal services paid to Elias Law Group in D.C.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A local Pastor, community activist, and educator has announced resigning from his teaching job at Ribault Middle School.
His reason: Florida’s new standards for teaching African American history.
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Pastor Reginald Gundy said he began his teaching career decades ago after retiring from the military.
He decided to return to the profession last year.
Gundy said the state’s new African American history standards, which have faced criticism for the incorporation of instruction on “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” sealed his decision to leave.
“This last piece, it’s not worth it,” he said,” I’d rather be out here to stand up and fight back against it.”
In his resignation letter, Gundy argued, “The Black History of slavery in America is no less than a Holocaust.”
“How do you benefit from being whipped, harmed, cut, killed, burned?” he said.
Read: Here’s who is behind Florida’s new Black history education standards
Dr. William Allen, one of the crafters of the state’s new standards, has pushed back on criticisms, arguing the suggestion Florida plans to teach students slavery benefited African Americans is a lie.
“It is an absolute falsehood,” Allen said.” If anybody is presenting the positive good school of slavery, it’s the heirs of people like Calhoun and Taney and Woodrow Wilson who continue to propagate the false picture that the birth of the nation was nothing but slavery.”
But, Gundy argues the mounting pressure for teachers to stay in line with the state’s preferred narrative has reached a boiling point.
“You really don’t know what you should be properly teaching that’s safe to keep you from losing your job, losing your home, losing your car, unable to feed yourself,” Gundy said.
Just last week, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Jacksonville to denounce the state’s new standards, calling them ‘propaganda.’
Governor Ron DeSantis responded by accusing Harris of lying to cover for her ‘agenda of indoctrinating students.’
Read: Florida Board of Education approves new African American history standards despite opposition
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OVIEDO, Fla. — A community center in Oviedo remains closed nearly 10 months after Hurricane Ian hit, sending 25 inches of water into the building.
Last week, the Oviedo City Council approved funding to get repairs at Riverside Park moving.
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“We had some severe damage in the overall facility. Flooding in the pool, tennis courts were damaged,” said Paul Belden, Oviedo’s director of recreation and parks.
Belden said the flooding caused between $648,000 and $766,000 in damage.
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“We couldn’t just enter the facility, we had to be safe and secure. So we had to get several assessments before we can enter the building to get the visual assessment for insurance purposes,” Belden said.
Insurance assessments held up the repairs, and the city also had to get FEMA funding.
SEE: Massive aquarium to soon replace former Daytona Mall
Now that the city’s overcome the funding hurdle, remediation work at Riverside is underway. The tennis courts are back open, but will be resurfaced, and the pool has been drained.
Belden said the plan is to have everything back open by January.
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DARLINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — It’s been about six months since the disastrous train derailment in East Palestine and now people in Darlington Township are finally getting some relief.
Governor Josh Shapiro got Norfolk Southern to pay $1 million for communities impacted.
“This critical funding will help Darlington Township and Lawrence County build back better than better,” Governor Shapiro said.
Leaders in those areas will determine how the funds will best be used and some residents said they want a say.
“We are the ones that have been affected by this, who are concerned about things in the future. Listen to what we have to say,” said Lori O’Connell, Darlington Township resident.
Darlington Township got $660,000 and leaders there will get public input before making a decision.
Darlington Township supervisors chairman Mike Carreon said, “This is not a settlement but a small step forward. We continue in discussions with Norfolk Southern in an effort to address both our short and long-term concerns.”
Channel 11 asked Beaver County Commissioner Jac Manning about where he could see that money going.
“Groundwater testing, ongoing health monitoring and continue to do health clinics and maybe inconvenience fees to help compensate some of the residents,” said Commissioner Jack Manning
Manning said road repairs and healthcare monitoring for first responders are important too.
Lawrence County got $340,000 and leaders plan to use it to help businesses and people impacted.
Commissioner Manning said this situation is far from over.
“There are still ramifications happening every day they continue to keep up the site and trying to bring things back the way it was before,” said Manning.
Several residents said they will be at the Darlington Township supervisors meeting at the township building on August 14 at 7 p.m. to discuss the funding.
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PITTSBURGH — The defense continues to present witnesses in the final phase of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial.
On Wednesday, the judge denied a motion to exhume Randall Bowers’ body for DNA testing.
Bowers’ attorneys on Tuesday asked the judge to exhume the body to prove he’s the biological father of Robert Bowers.
The defense has said Randall Bowers suffered from schizophrenia and mental illness runs in the family.
Also in court on Wednesday, Pastor Jeff Dillinger testified that Bowers attended his church in Whitehall for about six months, and two prison guards who monitor Bowers at the Butler County Prison testified that he’s never had any seizures and doesn’t take medication.
Dr. George Corvin, a psychiatrist from Raleigh North Carolina, examined Robert Bowers on multiple occasions and diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
Corvin said Bowers’s family tree showed a significant history of mental illness, but he says Bowers won’t admit that he has issues.
“He knows other people think he’s mentally ill but he does not think he’s mentally ill and he does not want to be seen as mentally ill,” Dr. Corvin said.
Corvin testified that Bowers is a smart guy who knows a lot of stuff....but has a delusional fixation. For instance, he says Bowers believes salt packets at the Butler County Prison are improving his abilities, and at one point Bowers thought a ghost was breaking a light bulb at his apartment every Sunday night.
Two retired federal prison managers, who now both work as consultants, testified that if sentenced to life in prison, Bowers would likely be sent here to the super maximum-security facility outside Denver, Colorado for safety reasons. It’s the highest-level security prison in the federal system.
“I believe, given that his crime is a hate crime, he may become the target of other inmates. Inmates would not take so kindly to seeing him in general population,” said Janet Perdue.
They both agreed that this facility would be the only one that could keep him safe.
They testified he would be in a cell by himself for nearly 23 hours out of the day, but the defense attempted to paint a different picture of life behind bars at the supermax, pointing out that he would have his own shower, and tv with 60 channels, and access to arts and crafts, bingo, trivia contests with prizes like protein bars.
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ORMOND BEACH, Fla. – People who live near the Ormond Beach Airport say they are used to noise, but after an airplane’s falling debris crashed onto their property, they are now demanding answers.
When Bob Blankenship realized the pieces of metal and fiberglass were an airplane windshield that fell from a plane and landed on his property, he says he was floored.
“I couldn’t believe it to be honest with you. It was like you got to be kidding me,” Blankenship told News 6,
He found multiple pieces on his property and pieced the puzzle together.
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Then he realized his doorbell camera was pointed in the direction where he found one of the largest pieces.
When you look at the video you can hear the plane flying overhead.
Then you hear the fiberglass crash into the tree and finally hit the ground.
“It could fall on anybody out here,” Blankenship said. “Just think if it fell from 300 feet. What’s the impact going to be? Probably cut you in two,” he said.
Using FlightAware, Blankenship found the plane and saw that it took off from the Ormond Beach Airport and landed in DeLand.
He says neither airport knew anything.
“So, it hadn’t been reported,” Blankenship said.
He left his contact information and said he got this message from the plane’s pilot.
“Hey this is Douglas and I’m over in DeLand and I lost a piece of my airplane yesterday,” the caller said. “Somebody said that you found it in your yard and I’m wondering if I can connect with you and come and get it.”
Blankenship refused.
He reported the incident to the Federal Aviation Administration and kept the parts as evidence, but he believes the FAA is dragging its feet.
The incident happened in May, and he says no one has come to his home to inspect the debris.
“I’m concerned that nobody is concerned about the people on the ground,” Blankenship said.
News 6 contacted the FAA and their Office of Communication confirmed they did “receive a report about this incident and we are investigating,” a spokesperson wrote in an email.
In a letter to Blankenship, a local FAA safety inspector wrote, “The falling aircraft part situation is being taken seriously by our organization.”
Using the plane’s tail number Blankenship also learned the plane was an experimental aircraft, according to FAA registration records.
“Then we started having a concern, a deep concern over the fact that we’ve got experimental planes taking off here,” Blankenship said.
Dick Knapinski is the spokesperson for the Experimental Aircraft Association and says the planes have to be inspected every year or every 100 hours of flight.
“A lot of them are built from very standardized kits that may take 1,000 to 3,000 hours to build,” Knapinski said. “This is certainly not common. In fact, I don’t know of another case where a windshield has popped out,” he said.
Blankenship says if the situation is not thoroughly investigated, it could happen again.
“The next time it could be somebody’s life,” he said.
News 6 pressed the FAA for answers, but we were told the FAA does not comment on ongoing investigations.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – If you think taking your dog or cat to the vet is tough, imagine having to take a nearly 400-pound alligator.
Veterinarians at the University of Florida this week had to give a check-up to Brooke, a 376-pound resident of St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park.
Park officials said Brooke displayed intermittent head-rolling in the lagoon where he lives, among other symptoms, and needed to be examined.
That meant getting a blood draw, radiographs and even a CT scan.
For this Brooke was strapped to a board and had his eyes covered with a towel.
UF’s zoological medicine service team determined the gator had an ear infection.
Officials did not explain how exactly you treat an alligator for an ear infection, but they wished the gator a speedy recovery.
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A federal jury convicted Michael Shirley of paying a $6,000 kickback to former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg in 2017 in exchange for maintaining a lucrative consulting contract with the tax collector’s office.
Shirley faces up to 20 years in prison after jurors found him guilty Thursday of four counts of honest services fraud and one count of conspiracy.
“Obviously, we’re disappointed in the results today,” Shirley’s attorney, Dr. Gavin Clarkson, said after the verdict was announced. “There are some objections that we raised to the jury charge and the overall vagueness of the statute that the government was using.”
During closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors that Shirley was paid $634,000 in taxpayer money over three years while doing little work as a contractor for Greenberg’s office.
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The government also accused Shirley of submitting inflated invoices to the tax collector’s office, including one with a markup of more than 90%.
To maintain that high-paying contract, prosecutors said Shirley paid Greenberg a $6,000 cash bribe, which Greenberg later used to pay off an American Express credit card.
“This is a case about corruption,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Daniels. “It’s about a corrupt tax collector and a corrupt consultant who colluded with him.”
Greenberg is serving an 11-year sentence in federal prison for child sex trafficking and other offenses.
As is common following similar criminal convictions, the judge allowed Shirley to remain free while awaiting his sentence hearing, which is tentatively scheduled for late October.
But before the court adjourned, Daniels asked the judge to place Shirley in federal custody after they claimed Shirley and his attorney “threatened” a fellow prosecutor.
According to Daniels, Shirley approached Assistant U.S. Attorney Chauncey Bratt during the trial and informed him that Shirley found personal information about Bratt on the internet.
Shirley’s attorney later told Bratt there was also information about Bratt’s family online.
“It feels like it was a veiled threat,” Bratt told U.S. Circuit Court Judge Gregory Presnell.
Clarkson insisted he and his client were simply trying to make Bratt aware of the information on the internet, which Clarkson claims they found while researching the prosecutors’ professional backgrounds.
“It was an act of kindness,” Clarkson told the judge. “It was in no way threatening. In fact, it was just the opposite.”
The judge declined to place Shirley in custody but encouraged prosecutors to file a motion with the court if they believed there was evidence of a threat.
“I’m sorry this happened,” Presnell said.
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A Mansfield mom needs the public's help finding her four-and-a-half-pound emotional support dog.
Jessica Burks left Tiki Boom Boom with a friend when she was on vacation. Unfortunately, the dog got away from the friend's home on July 18.
"She came into my life -- I adopted her -- I changed her life and she changed mine," said Burks. "She means everything to me and my girls, my family, my friends, and apparently the entire community of Mansfield and I appreciate it."
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The man accused of driving to Dallas to kill his high school girlfriend's husband in a murder-for-hire plot took the stand in his own defense Thursday.
Prosecutors said 49-year-old Darrin Ruben Lopez had been having a torrid love affair with his high school ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Faith, and that he drove to Dallas from his home in Tennessee to kill her husband.
Jamie Faith, police said, was gunned down on Oct. 9, 2020, as he and his wife walked their dog near their Dallas home, a day after their 15th wedding anniversary.
Defense attorneys said Darrin is a veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury while serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq and that he'd been duped and manipulated by his ex into believing she was being abused by her husband and that only then did he agree to the plot to avenge her.
Shortly after noon on Thursday, the state rested its case. Lopez's defense then began presenting their case at about noon.
Lopez, who was sworn in Thursday morning after his attorneys told Judge Brandon Birmingham that he planned to testify in his own defense, took the stand at about 12:30 p.m. and answered questions about this relationship with Jennifer Faith, the murder and his military service for nearly four hours.
Lopez told jurors when he got into his truck and drove from Tennessee to Dallas he went into "military mode" and was on a mission to save his girlfriend and her daughter from a man who he thought was an abusive husband.
Lopez, who detailed his years as a medic in the U.S. Army Special Forces, described in detail shooting Jamie Faith and said he wanted to be sure the man didn't suffer even though he thought he was a monster who was abusing his wife.
"Being a medic, treating people on the battlefield, the human body can take a lot of damage and still live. I did not want Jamie to suffer, even though, in my eyes, he was a monster, I did not want him to suffer. So I approached, and I fired the rounds into his head. By training, you know, should have only been two. It end up being three," Lopez said.
Jennifer Faith pleaded guilty in February 2022 to orchestrating the murder-for-hire plot and enlisting Lopez's help, admitting she manipulated him into believing her husband was sexually and physically abusive through graphic emails and text messages she sent from her account and fake accounts in the names of her husband and a worried friend.
Lopez's defense attorneys said Jennifer Faith knowingly took advantage of an emotionally vulnerable and disabled combat veteran with a traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
Recalling how he felt after learning the abuse was a charade, that the allegations against Jamie Faith were untrue and that his ex-girlfriend was behind it all, Lopez broke down into tears.
"I was devastated," Lopez said. "I took an innocent life."
PROSECUTOR QUESTIONS BEING DUPED IN CROSS
During prosecutor Brandi Mitchell's blistering cross-examination, she questioned Lopez's claims about how he was duped into believing his ex-girlfriend was a victim of repeated sexual assault but continued to exchange steamy, erotically charged messages with him.
Mitchell asserted the murder was all part of a violent fantasy playing out and pushed back on Lopez who said he blindly trusted his ex-girlfriend. She also had doubts about the incredible messages he was receiving alleging abuse.
"She's telling you that her husband and her have not had sex in four years and that within weeks of meeting you all of a sudden, he's gang-raping her with Jeremy. That didn't seem strange to you?" Mitchell said.
Lopez answered, "No, it did. But at the time I got into the picture, Covid hit, he's laying off people. I had seen good men break before. That's what I thought had happened."
DOCTOR TESTIFIES ABOUT LOPEZ'S MENTAL HEALTH
Following Lopez’s testimony, his defense called Dr. John Fabian, a certified forensic and clinical psychologist, to testify about his mental and physical health.
Fabian’s work includes evaluating members of the military and he evaluated Lopez leading up to the trial.
Fabian reviewed U.S. Department of Defense medical records pertaining to Lopez and testified that Lopez appears to have ‘latched on’ to the memory of his high school girlfriend, especially during his military deployments, even though they had not been in touch in over 20 years.
Fabian found it “odd,” “unhealthy,” and “bizarre,” how quickly Lopez escalated his feelings for Jennifer Faith after rekindling a relationship.
Lopez’s mindset became, “threatened and alarmed,” after receiving messages alleging she suffered violent rape encounters, including gang rape, at the hands of her husband, according to Fabian.
“There is a fear with this and he’s not wanting Jennifer to be harmed in any way,” said Fabian.
The doctor testified Lopez’s list of solutions in the situation was limited, adding, “It’s a man on a mission,” said Fabian.
Prosecutor Mitchell had Fabian admit that while “thousands and thousands of people suffer from PTSD, not many go out and commit murder.”
However, on redirect, Lopez’s defense asked Fabian: "Would this have happened if Jennifer Faith had not pushed 'his buttons?'"
Despite an objection by the prosecution, the judge allowed the doctor to respond.
“No,” responded Fabian.
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TAMPA, Florida — The inflation rate hit a two-year low in June but the financial relief may not be felt in Florida.
The Federal Reserve raised the interest rate again on Wednesday in an effort to lower inflation. It comes as the Tampa Bay area still has among the highest inflation rates reported, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater has a Consumer Price Index, which is measured for inflation, of 7.3% for the year ended in May.
Meanwhile, the Consumer Price Index grew at an annual rate of 3% in June — the smallest increase since March 2021, the Labor Department said on Wednesday.
South Florida is also reporting similar numbers.
The CPI for Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-West Palm Beach is at 6.9% in June from the year before.
Florida Gulf Coast University's Dr. Victor Claar said Florida is outpacing others on inflation in large part due to housing.
The majority of the CPI is based on "shelter," the technical term used for housing in the measure, Claar explained.
"It is an index. It's supposed to be what a typical American family buys in a given month," Claar said. "If you live in a place where shelter is increasing at faster rates than other parts of the country, the inflation rate will be faster because it's a really big expenditure that we all face every month."
On top of the ongoing demand for housing in Florida, the state faced a boom in population from COVID-19 and the growth appears to be ongoing from remote workers, retirees, and snowbirds.
The need for services in transportation, goods and other services all add up to one's wallet.
Those like Nhick Ramiro Pacis of Tampa keep an eye on his budget from the rising costs at the grocery to his insurance.
"It's really affecting a lot of people. Not only me," Pacis said.
Like other Floridians, Pacis has had to make adjustments. On top of working two jobs, he's cut down on TV subscriptions and dining out in an effort to save.
Claar said it'll be difficult to understand just how soon Florida's higher inflation rates will cool down. As desirable of a market as it was before for factors like real estate, it's undergone high interest since the start of the pandemic.
"I don't think a responsible economist at this point can tell you the day or the month or maybe even the year that things will begin to look more normal... because we don't quite know yet what the new normal is going to be," Claar said.
The Federal Reserve will meet again in September.
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell said another interest rate hike may be possible.
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In a somber ceremony Thursday morning, a crowd gathered to dedicate a historical marker at the Old Red Courthouse in downtown Dallas.
"I'd like to welcome you to today's Allen Brooks Historical Marker dedication," Dr. Michael Waters of the Abundant Life AME Church said.
In 1910, Allen Brooks was awaiting trial when an angry mob threw him out of a second-floor window, then dragged him a half a mile.
Historic photos show a crowd of 5,000 people gathered to witness the lynching.
In 2021, a historical marker was placed at the site of the lynching. On Thursday, a second one was unveiled to mark the place where it started; the Old Red Courthouse.
"There was no morality. There was no justice in that crowd when Mr. Allen Brooks was lynched that day," Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said.
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Among those in the crowd for Thursday's dedication, was Brooks's 4th generation great-granddaughter, Nkeya Brooks.
"Because I'm a descendant of him, it hurts still," Brooks said. "Black lives do matter, and we have a right to say you know what happened and what we go through, whatever case it might be. It's speaking out and I'm glad that everyone is saying his name."
The second marker is meant to give a more complete account of a dark day in Dallas' history.
"History can often be uncomfortable," Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price said. "We've got to face up to it. It doesn't go away just because you don't want to teach it, or you don't want to discuss it."
Despite widespread news coverage in the papers and thousands of witnesses, no one was ever charged in connection with Brooks' lynching.
"And maybe if this city and this county has the courage to acknowledge its past we will also find the courage to create a better future," Waters said.
"We're on our way," Brooks said. "We're really on our way!"
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A Fort Worth public art installation is among 15 in the state nominated as a Top 100 CODAaward finalist this year.
The CODAawards are an international art competition that celebrates "the projects that most successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces."
In 2023, there were over 400 entries across 24 countries before a jury narrowed the list down to 100. Of the finalists, there are installations in Texas in Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, Huntsville and San Antonio.
The piece in Fort Worth, Concentric Harmony, is an interactive maze of 97 brightly painted columns in three concentric circles that were designed to encourage curiosity and unstructured play. The installation was created by artist Virginia Fleck and was dedicated on Dec. 3, 2022. The piece can be viewed (and played in) at Rosemont Park at 1600 W. Seminary Drive.
CODAaward FINALISTS FROM TEXAS (click link to vote)
- C-010106 (Austin)
- Oasis Sombrio (El Paso)
- Concentric Harmony (Fort Worth)
- Big Walls Big Dreams Houston - All City (Houston)
- Vernoculus (Houston)
- Solstice (Houston)
- The Aquarius Art Tunnel at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston)
- Cistern Illuminated (Houston)
- That Sunnyside Pride (Houston)
- Fighand (Houston)
- Synchronicity of Color (Huntsville)
- Nest (San Antonio)
- STREAM (San Antonio)
There is one winner in each of the 10 categories, with an additional two winners for the People's Choice award. The two artworks that receive the most votes will win a People's Choice CODAaward.
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Public voting is open from July 18-31 on the CODAawards website. Winners will be announced at the end of August.
The average cost for each art piece entered in the competition was $286K, with the total amount spent being $54.7 million.
In 2022, Texas took home two landscape merit honorable mentions and an education merit honorable mention.
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On Thursday afternoon, Fort Worth Independent School District held its biggest hiring event in years.
"We had over 1,700 people pre-register," Raul Pena said. Pena is the district's chief talent officer. "This helps us a lot to make sure that we have a teacher in front of every student."
The FWISD Board approved a new compensation package this year of more than $20 million. The package directly affects the teachers who landed a job Wednesday, as the base salary went up to $62,000 a year.
“If you're bilingual certified, your starting salary will be $71,000,” Pena said. “With zero years for special ed teachers, we’re starting them at $68,000 with zero years of experience.”
According to the school district, experienced educators hired this year have the potential of making close to $64,000 a year.
The school district said it faces a critical vacancy of employees including teachers, teachers assistants, custodial staff, security monitors and more. Hundreds of positions need to be filled in time for the first day of school on August 14.
"When we look at the DFW metroplex, we're in a very good spot," Pena said. "We have about a little bit over 143 schools with about 200 teacher vacancies. By the time we finish today, it'll be an average of about one vacancy per school."
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The school district will continue to accept applications online.
In a separate vote this summer, the board approved a 3% raise for all current teachers and 2% raise for executives.
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President Joe Biden announced what the White House calls a first-ever heat "hazard alert" as temperatures across Texas pass 100 degrees for days in a row. Millions of Americans experience record-high temperatures and the new efforts will add new guidance to employers and more inspections and enforcement efforts aiming to protect workers out in the sun.
"Even those who deny that we're in the midst of a climate crisis can't deny the impact of extreme heat," said President Biden in prepared remarks Thursday morning without taking questions.
Biden directed the Department of Labor to increase heat-safety inspections in outdoor workplaces like farms and construction sites. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there have been more than 400 on-the-job heat-related deaths in the last decade. The Labor Department also will issue new guidance to employers about safety and information to employees so they know their rights.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego joined the President via video after their cities had a string of triple-digit days.
Hector Reyes works as an electrician in North Texas. With thirteen years in the industry, he spends his time working for his union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 20.
A few years ago he said he almost got heat exhaustion on the job.
"At first you don't even feel it coming on," Reyes said, "I was stooped over and when I stood up my balance just went away. The guy I was working with noticed that."
Heat and water issues have played out in Texas this past year. Earlier the cities of Austin and Dallas required construction companies to allow a ten-minute water break every four hours to their workers. Industry groups lobbied the Texas legislature and they overturned the local ordinances, arguing OSHA already requires a safe workplace and the state government didn't want different laws in different regions of the state.
The President noted that debate but didn't name Texas specifically.
"I mean what are we doing here? What's going on with some of this stuff," Biden said.
OSHA will now roll out more heat-related inspections after Thursday's announcement. More oversight of companies is something Reyes supports.
"Some of them are going to take care of their workers but there's a large part that just aren't," Reyes said.
Along with this new Federal program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will put $7 million towards improving weather forecasts. The Department of the Interior will also dedicate $152 million to expand water storage facilities in Washington, California, and Colorado along with other measures.
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A 25-year old man has been arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting death in Tucson earlier this year, Tucson police announced.
Carlos Gandara Jr. was arrested Wednesday, July 26, in the Feb. 25 slaying of Warren Lee Lewis, 61.
Police gave the following account in a news release:
Officers called to the southwest corner of North Stone Avenue and West Fort Lowell Road found Lewis with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Witnesses told investigators Lewis was walking with another person along North Stone when a passing car opened fire.
No immediate suspects were identified but forensic evidence led to Gandara as the prime suspect.
Police obtained a search warrant and an arrest warrant was issued for Gandara. They eventually found him a home near the intersection of North Flowing Wells and West Fort Lowell roads. The Tucson Police Department's SWAT team was called in to assist and he was taken into custody without incident.
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Gandara is being held at the Pima County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder, drive-by shooting and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges.
Detectives ask that anyone with information about the case call 88-CRIME.
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A Tucson man has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing children.
Eric David Marrufo, 43, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson after a jury found him guilty of five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and one count of abusive sexual contact with a child.
Marrufo sexually abused multiple victims at his home on the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation over a two-year period in 2006 to 2008, federal court officials said in a news release.
The investigation was led by the FBI in conjunction with the Pascua Yaqui Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew C. Cassell and Rui Wang in Tucson prosecuted the case.
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Barrio Charro, the fast-casual restaurant collaboration between El Charro and Barrio Bread, will close on Sunday, July 30, to make way for a new, more expansive concept.
Ray Flores Jr., president of El Charro's parent company Si Charro, said the new restaurant will lean into the strengths from Si Charro's Sonoran-style Mexican food profile, bringing together popular items from its other restaurants under one roof.
The new restaurant is expected to open in early September in the Barrio Charro space at 3699 N. Campbell Ave. Flores said more details and the name would be revealed next month.
"We really realized, with the proliferation of restaurants on Campbell Avenue, that we needed to have a broader menu," Flores said. "We're still going to have some of the more popular items like the tortas."
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Barrio Charro, which opened in January 2021, is a fast-casual, grab-and-go breakfast and lunch restaurant featuring sandwiches and tortas centered around the breads from Tucson's award-winning Barrio Bread. But it is the small selection of burritos and tostadas on the menu that drive a bulk of the restaurant's sales, Flores said.
Flores said many of their customers associate the "Charro" name with the burritos, enchiladas and tacos from the Flores family's 100-year-old flagship El Charro Café rather than bread and sandwiches.
Barrio Bread will not be affiliated with the new concept, which Flores said will stick with the fast-casual model.
The new menu will feature favorites from Si Charro restaurants including the gluten-free churros from the plant-plus Charrovida on the northwest side; the street corn from Charro Steak & del Rey downtown; and carne seca from El Charro.
There also will be a few carryovers from Barrio Charro including the popular carne asada and chicken bowls.
Si Charro also owns The Monica downtown, which marked its first anniversary in March.
Flores said he also plans to include enchiladas, street tacos inspired by the El Charro style beef-patty tacos that have been on its menu since 1922, and a salsa bar.
"We know that's what people want," he said.
Barrio Charro is open daily from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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'Believe the hype': Polk Theatre in Lakeland aims to reopen Aug. 5 after pipe repairs
LAKELAND — The Polk Theatre in Lakeland's marquees reads ,"Believe the hype fixing the pipe." It announced a tentative reopening date after being closed for two weeks for emergency repairs.
The theatre announced Thursday morning via social media that it hopes to reopen Aug. 5 and will confirm its schedule next week. Management first announced a closure on July 9, saying a pipe had broken underneath seats in the orchestra's center section, causing the historic building's basement to flood.
"It's been a challenging week diligently working and preparing the theatre to install new pipe," read the statement posted Thursday morning on Polk Theatre's website and social media.
Photos on social media show the theatre had 120 seats and the black tech booth removed before drilling through concrete to identify the broken pipe. It was later discovered the repairs needed to the 95-year-old plumbing were more extensive than expected, with an entire length of pipe needing to be replaced.
A staff member told The Ledger they waiting for a shipment of pipe to arrive Monday to move forward with repairs. There was no work occurring onsite Thursday.
The Polk Theatre opened in December 1928 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It underwent a $1.5 million renovation project in the 1990s to return the building to its original appearance, modeled after an Italian Renaissance courtyard.
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It's not the first time the theater's aging plumbing has caused damage. In March 2008, a plugged drain pipe caused thousands of gallons of water to inundate the theater during a rainstorm, halting a live performance. The event's damages were largely limited to backstage areas and estimated to cost around $200,000.
Theater staff declined to offer any details to The Ledger about the repair work and costs, including any information about possible fundraisers or donations to cover the costs.
Sara-Megan Walsh can be reached at swalsh@theledger.com or 863-802-7545. Follow on Twitter @SaraWalshFl.
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The family of a man who was fatally shot outside of Pat’s King of Steaks in 2021 is now suing the South Philly cheesesteak shop.
The law firm of Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig LLP filed a lawsuit against Pat’s King of Steaks on behalf of David Padro, Jr., who was shot and killed in front of the shop on July 22, 2021.
On that day, Padro, 22, got into a parking dispute with another customer outside the cheesesteak shop in South Philadelphia that resulted in him being shot and killed.
The lawsuit being filed against Pat’s alleges that despite the cheesesteak shop having a known history of unruly customers on its property during late night and early morning hours, the shop failed to have security personnel present who could have intervened in the altercation.
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“This lawsuit is not just about getting justice for David Jr., it’s about holding businesses accountable. Businesses that profit from the people of Philadelphia,” Andrew Mitnick, a partner at the Feldman Shepherd law firm representing David Padro Sr., said in a press conference Thursday afternoon. “Businesses like Pat’s owe a duty to take reasonable measures to protect the safety and well-being of their patrons.”
Pat’s is a 24-hour business. Mitnick says since the business wants people who have been drinking and are out late to come to their business, they should have security to protect their customers and business — sentiments that Padro Sr. echoed.
“David was a victim of a preventable shooting at Pat’s King of Steaks,” Padro Sr., said during the press conference.
He said while he was in court, the man that killed his son, Paul Burkett, said that he wished that Pat’s had security there that night to prevent what happened. Burkett was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on June 7, 2023.
Mitnick cited other businesses in Philadelphia that have uniformed Philadelphia police officers in their store such as Apple.
The family’s lawyer also said that Pat’s has a continued history of violence taking place specifically at its business such an attack two months after Padro’s death that left a man beaten to death.
“This can’t be allowed to happen to any other family and that’s why I filed the lawsuit,” Padro Sr. said.
NBC10 reached out to Pat's King of Steaks. A spokesperson said they had no comment.
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- “Jackass” star Brandon "Bam" Margera must stand trial on charges that he punched his brother during an altercation at their home near Philadelphia, a judge ruled Thursday while ordering him to get a drug and alcohol screening to remain free on bail.
- Margera, 43, has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charges, which include simple assault and making terroristic threats. He has been free on $50,000 bail and said Thursday that he has been in drug and alcohol treatment this year and living with former Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom.
- Margera was charged in April several days after an arrest warrant was announced by Pennsylvania State Police. Margera disappeared for days before turning up to face arrest.
“Jackass” star Brandon "Bam" Margera must stand trial on charges that he punched his brother during an altercation at their home near Philadelphia, a judge ruled Thursday while ordering him to get a drug and alcohol screening to remain free on bail.
Margera appeared in a West Chester, Pennsylvania, courtroom Thursday for a preliminary hearing. He wore sunglasses and a suit, holding hands with his girlfriend and posing for photos alongside his legal team before entering the courthouse through a revolving door.
Margera briefly spoke of his travel troubles before walking into the courthouse, but didn't address any of the charges, nor did his legal team.
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The reality star arrived late for his hearing after he said he got held up during a layover in Houston, Texas, while traveling back to West Chester from Los Angeles, where he's been staying recently.
The look on Thursday was more polished than when he surrendered on the assault charges in April while wearing a button down shirt and not smiling for cameras.
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Margera, 43, was charged in April several days after an arrest warrant was announced by Pennsylvania State Police. Margera disappeared for days before turning up to face arrest.
Margera pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charges, which include simple assault and making terroristic threats. He has been free on $50,000 bail and said Thursday that he has been in drug and alcohol treatment this year and living with former Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom.
“I’m not trying to get him in trouble here. I just want him to get the help because I feel like this is our last chance,” Margera's brother, Jess Margera, said in testifying about what he called two decades of troubling behavior by his brother, which he said escalated during a “frightening and unpredictable” two-week visit at their Chester County home in April.
He said that Bam — upset on a Sunday morning after seeing a text that suggested he needed mental health treatment — struck him in the nose and ear and ruptured his eardrum. Jess Margera's girlfriend called police after Bam kicked in her bedroom door, he said.
“I don't know what we’re doing here," lawyer Michael van der Veen said. “This is a disagreement between two brothers on a Sunday morning over coffee.”
He argued that the brothers often perform such antics for the cameras. The Chester County magistrate rejected the argument, noting that no cameras were rolling at the time.
Prosecutors agreed to drop two of four counts of terroristic threats stemming from allegations that Bam Margera threatened to shoot various family members and left his brother a threatening note. Neither the brother nor prosecutors suggested that he had access to a gun.
By the end of the hearing, both sides seemed most interested in ensuring that he remains in treatment.
“We want to make sure you're safe, secure and alive,” said Judge Albert Iacocca, who asked what had motivated him to go to treatment this year.
“To see my son Phoenix, who's 5," Bam Margera said.
Margera, who also starred in the MTV reality series “Viva La Bam,” wrote on social media after his arrest that the allegations “are not true,” and the brothers threatened to sue each other over the conflict.
“I don't care about the money,” Jess Barbera said. “My brother’s a good dude when he’s not messed up. I don't think he would hurt a fly. It's just when he's been up for days, it's scary."
Margera's attorney Michael van der Veen at that April hearing spoke to reporters.
"My client is presumed innocent," van der Veen said after Margera was released on bail back in April. "The rumors that have been being passed around by his brother through this last week have been nothing short of defamation and that will be handled in another courthouse."
In a written statement, van der Veen added “the wild rumors regarding his behavior this week are absolutely false. He is in good health and in good spirits."
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL)- With school right around the corner, school safety is on everyone’s minds. School Resource Officer Brandon Cutshall with the Washington County, Tennessee Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) stopped by the First at Four Thursday to share some reminders and tips about the school year starting.
Just like last year, every school in Washington County will have an SRO, totaling 13 deputies covering schools. On average, there are 10 deputies patrolling the county at all times as well.
Boones Creek, Jonesborough, Gray and South Central will all have K-9 officers.
Cutshall also had some reminders for the drive to school. Parents and student drivers should make sure to leave with extra time during the first few weeks. School zones begin 30 minutes before school opens and 30 minutes after dismissal. Cell phones are prohibited in school zones.
Those who drive near or around a high school are reminded to watch out for new drivers. Cutshall also said anyone who comes upon a school bus with its stop sign out is required to stop in both directions.
Washington County, Tennessee Schools kick off the school year Wednesday, Aug. 2.
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GREENEVILLE Tenn. (WJHL)- The end of July has brought a heat wave to the Tri-Cities, and with football season right around the corner, high schools like Greeneville and North Greene are making sure students are safe from the high temperatures while on the field.
“We do a lot of work together, when I’m making the practice schedule we make sure that there’s enough water breaks,” said Greeneville High School football coach Eddie Spradlen. “Depending on what the temperature is that day, if we need to adjust practice or anything like that.”
Greeneville High School has implemented a new weather system that will alert coaches and staff if weather conditions become too dangerous. Glenn Evatt, the athletic director for the high school said they will modify practice if it’s too hot outside.
“We decide if we need to alter practice, change practice altogether or move it up an hour or two,” said Evatt. “We’re going to do whatever we need to do, to protect our kids and to be able to still get an efficient practice.”
Evatt told News Channel 11 that in case of emergencies, they follow an action plan.
“The plan includes cold tubs, immersion tubs that we will put them in if they get to that point where it becomes a medical emergency,” said Evatt.
Eric Tilson, football coach at North Greene High School, said they also have safety measures in place, one of which is watering the football field.
“It just keeps it cool,” said Tilson. “We try to water before and after practices and it softens the playing surface and gets some moisture in the air.”
Tilson said that their entire staff is CPR certified, and their athletic trainer is a medical professional.
“Days like today, we’re required to let them have water at any time,” said Tilson. “It doesn’t matter if you’re in the middle of drill; if they need water, we’re taking water, then sometimes we’ll take a five-minute period.’
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some signs of heat exhaustion include:
- Cold, pale and clammy skin
- Fast, weak pulse
- Muscle cramps
- Dizziness
- Headaches
- Nausea or vomiting
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INDIANAPOLIS — When it comes to the Indiana State Fair, we know a lot of people come for the rides and the delicious food, but this year there are some changes you’ll want to know.
“We have more new ‘wows’ than ever before at the 2023 Indiana State Fair,” said Anna Whelchel.
The year, the fair is teaming up with the Indiana Pacers organization to celebrate “the state that grew the game,” which is showcased in the “Land of Legends” exhibit.
Just down the street is another new exhibit called “Illuminate.” It is located in Expo Hall and is filled with a large color light show.
Plus, the brand-new Farm Bureau “Fall Creek Pavilion” will open for the first time this week after a $50 million renovation.
On Thursday, several food vendors also gave a behind-the-scenes look at their creative culinary creations. Everything from fried corn on a stick to s'mores funnel cakes.
On the Midway, vendors also made final touches to nearly 50 rides. Indiana’s Department of Homeland Security spent the day inspecting each one.
After the inspection, each ride received a sticker showing when they were last checked. A staff member will also be at the fair doing random checks over the next three weeks.
If something seems wrong, they ask you to report it right away.
“If it is not working properly, we will give them a violation and some of those violations will be that they can’t have public riders until this is fixed,” said Von Scott. “We haven’t had any major violations, so we are looking good.”
When it comes to safety, the fair is also implementing new restrictions this year.
The biggest change is the “unaccompanied minor” policy. It means every night after 6 p.m., anyone under 18 must have a parent or chaperone over 21.
The fair runs Friday through Aug. 20. It will close every Monday and Tuesday.
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LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WJHL) — Letcher County Public Schools is expected to start school on time this year. Last year, the start was delayed six weeks due to flooding.
Fatal floods hit the area a year ago Friday.
Superintendent Denise Yonts says multiple buildings were damaged by the floods. Three schools were damaged, leaving around 1,100 students displaced. Yonts says students from two of those schools, Martha Jones Potter Elementary School and Fleming Neon Elementary School, returned to their buildings in January.
West Whitesburg Elementary School is the last school to reopen. Construction is happening inside of the school to rebuild the walls in the last few weeks before school is back in session.
“[West Whitesburg Elementary School] was an open-concept building,” said Yonts. “It was built in the 70s, so the classrooms were in suites. You had four classrooms together with no walls. Well, that doesn’t meet code any longer.”
Yonts sits in an office that she has just been able to return to within the last few weeks. The school district’s central office was also damaged by flooding. Yonts says five to six feet of water was in the office building.
In Martha Jones Potter Elementary School, Yonts says the waters busted through the doors.
With the damage sustained by the community, the school system was forced to start in late September last year.
“It was just kind of taking a toll of where are we, what is useable and then where can we put our students,” said Yonts.
Yonts says the school district also wanted to give the community time to find housing and for needed infrastructure repairs to occur.
The district’s largest elementary school, West Whitesburg Elementary School, shared space with the high schoolers throughout the school year last year.
“And actually it worked beautifully. We couldn’t ask for better,” said Yonts. “Everybody was very accommodating, worked well together. The biggest issue was traffic…but after the first week, that kind of worked itself out.”
She adds that children are very adaptive and the youngest kids enjoyed being in the high school.
“Our youngest kids loved going to the cafeteria and being where the high school kids were,” said Yonts. “They just thought that was a big deal.”
She says a lot of the students have anxiety because of the floods now. The pandemic coupled with the natural disaster has taken a toll on students.
“And their suffering, not just with learning gaps, but with social and emotional learning and just knowing how to interact with other students and being in a school and in that setting,” said Yonts.
In the coming school year, the school district plans to do more intentional teaching around social and emotional learning and provide additional counselors for students to talk to like they did last year.
Letcher County students are anticipated to be back in school on Aug. 9.
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DULUTH — After a closed session discussion Thursday afternoon, the Duluth School Board voted to purchase the Duluth News Tribune building for $600,000.
The district is now under contract to acquire the building at 424 W. First St. to expand its facilities and enhance educational opportunities, according to a news release from the district.
"The decision to purchase the commercial building comes as part of the district's ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality education to its students," read the release.
The district toured the facility in June and discussed the possible purchase at a previous closed session meeting shortly after. The 64,000-square-foot office has been home to the newspaper for decades and was listed for sale in June 2017. The News Tribune still operates its news organization out of the building.
“Purchasing this property is an exciting opportunity for Duluth Public Schools,” said Superintendent John Magas. “We will be able to combine the use of it for several programs and district needs, including Duluth Adult Education; Community Education; facilities and storage from our Garfield location; and possibly our Area Learning Center and Academic Excellence Online school. We are also exploring opening a Welcome Center to allow for enrollment and other services to be provided to the community. We believe in Duluth, and believe in our downtown.”
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The building was listed for sale at $900,000 by Follmer Commercial Real Estate. The district has entered into the purchase agreement for a price of $600,000. Finalization of the deal could take up to 90 days.
“We want to ensure that we continue to have a location in the heart of the city," Magas said. "Use of this site will significantly reduce our annual leases by over half a million dollars annually and, thus, the lease levy tax impact on our community. It is important that the district continues to demonstrate thoughtful financial stewardship on behalf of our taxpayers."
Details regarding the use of the new facility and its potential impact on the district's programs are yet to come. The district noted more updates will be shared with the public as they become available.
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DULUTH — From Wednesday-Sunday, the unofficial colors of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center might as well be white and blue, the colors of Finland’s flag.
FinnFest, which will call Duluth home for the next five years, began Wednesday and will run through Sunday with a wide variety of activities all around the area.
Jed Carlson joined the Superior Telegram in February 2001 as a photographer. He grew up in Willmar, Minnesota. He graduated from Ridgewater Community College in Willmar, then from Minnesota State Moorhead with a major in mass communications with an emphasis in photojournalism.
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A district judge sentenced a 24-year-old Lincoln man to prison for raping a teenage girl along a west Lincoln bike trail in 2021, saying probation would “make a mockery” of the justice system.
Jered Badberg’s public defender had made his case for probation, saying Badberg was working, had the support of family, had started treatment and was a stark contrast to the man he was two years ago.
“He’s a completely different person,” Deputy Lancaster County Public Defender John Jorgensen said.
He said Badberg understands his actions were wrong and that it shouldn’t have happened. But he’s taken steps to improve himself, and a term of probation would allow him to grow and show he can be a productive member of society, Jorgensen said.
“A period of incarceration is honestly not going to do anybody any good,” he said. “He’s addressing the seriousness of his actions by addressing those rehabilitative needs to prevent those actions from ever happening ... ever again.”
Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Julie Mruz said she had a very different view of Badberg. It was the state’s opinion that Badberg just couldn’t get all of his lies straight.
She said that when he was confronted with the allegations, he denied any sexual contact with the girl, but DNA tied him to the crime. Badberg later admitted he’d met her along the Jamaica Trail on March 3, 2021, but told investigators she asked him to meet. To others, he’s victim blamed and said she was making it up.
“This was a violent assault against her will. Grabbing her hair, dragging her on the ground, through the dirt, through the leaves, removing her clothes and forcing her to have ... sex with him,” Mruz said.
The girl said Badberg stood up after, spit on her and walked away, she said.
Badberg later pleaded no contest to attempted first-degree sexual assault, a crime that carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison. Mruz said to give him probation would be an injustice to the victim, her family and the community.
Badberg, who wrote a confidential letter to Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson, declined to say anything at the hearing before learning he would get near the max.
“DNA is what it is and it does not lie. You lie, but DNA does not,” the judge said.
Nelson said letters from Badberg and his supporters made zero mention of the victim. It was all about Badberg, she said, and appeared to try to make him look like the victim.
“By no means are you the victim here. You are a perpetrator of a violent crime against a minor. That’s what happened here,” she said.
Nelson said the victim had a protection order against Badberg, which he violated previously. He was awaiting trial for it when he committed this crime.
“Placing you on probation would make a mockery, quite frankly, of the judicial system,” she said, giving him 15-20 years.
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It hit 98 degrees in Lincoln on Wednesday, which wasn't even the highest temperature of the year.
But the heat index, or "feels-like" temperature, peaked at somewhere between 117 and 119, according to the National Weather Service, making it the hottest day in the city in several years.
Van DeWald, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Valley, said records there show it was the hottest feels-like temperature in Lincoln since July 10, 2011, when the heat index hit an all-time record of 128.
DeWald said staff also looked through records going back to 1980 and could not find another day with a heat index as high as it was Wednesday.
The high heat index was due to the amount of humidity in the air, which is measured by the dewpoint temperature.
That hit 81 degrees in Lincoln on Wednesday, which DeWald called "a very rare thing."
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"It happens, but it's not very common to see," he said.
While Lincoln had the highest heat index reading in the state on Wednesday, some other cities weren't far behind. Falls City had a heat index of 117, Omaha and Beatrice topped out at 115, and it hit 114 in Columbus and Nebraska City.
The continued heat and humidity led the National Weather Service to issue an excessive heat warning for more than a dozen counties in south-central and southeast Nebraska on Thursday, including Gage and Saline counties, although Lancaster County was not included.
DeWald said the heat warning was issued in those counties because Thursday was forecast to be the fourth-straight day with heat indexes of 105 or above. Lincoln, which hit triple digits for the actual temperature on Thursday and had a peak heat index near 110, remains in a heat advisory, along with much of the rest of the state, until Friday night.
He said the message is the same whether you are in an area with an excessive heat warning or one in a heat advisory: "It's hot."
Wednesday's heat sent some residents to local hospitals with related ailments.
The emergency departments and Bryan West and Bryan East treated a total of six to eight patients for heat issues Wednesday, according to the hospital system. CHI Health St. Elizabeth saw more than a dozen patients with various complaints and seeking relief from the heat between Monday and Wednesday, a spokesperson said.
Lincoln Fire and Rescue medic units responded to two calls Wednesday for patients with heat-related issues, department spokeswoman MJ Lierman said. Fire crews have been called 17 times for similar issues throughout July, she said.
Of course, hot, humid conditions in eastern Nebraska are not unusual during the summer, especially in July. That's largely due to evapotranspiration from the state's large corn crop, which can add up to 4,000 gallons of water vapor per acre into the atmosphere daily during the peak of the growing season.
"Yesterday, for some reason, the corn overproduced," DeWald said, referring to conditions on Wednesday.
In addition to making for uncomfortable outdoor conditions — the National Weather Service in a tweet referred to it as "air you can wear" — heat indexes as high as those experienced Wednesday and Thursday can be dangerous for people working outdoors, along with seniors, small children and those with chronic illnesses.
At a construction site in front of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Military and Naval Science building on Thursday, a pair of workers laid concrete as the sun beat down on them, not a sliver of shade in sight.
The intense heat over the past couple of days has forced them to start and end the workday a few hours earlier, even disrupting their sleep schedules, according to Darrek Barney, one of the workers.
"These two days haven't compared to anything this whole year," Barney said.
The other worker, Levi Coates, said it's made actions as simple as picking up a tool a painful ordeal, even with heavily calloused palms.
"It about burns the crap out of your hand," Coates said.
Just outside of the Journal Star office at 21st and N streets, Pedro Serpa cooled off in the shade as he took a break from tearing scaffolding off the side of the building on a construction lift in direct sunlight. He said he tries to have a positive mentality toward the work, regardless of the conditions.
"I think people are just so spoiled these days (with) all these technologies and air conditioning ... but it is what it is," Serpa said. "I'm cool with it as long as I have water and a good attitude."
Tim Byrne, maintenance operations manager with Lincoln Transportation and Utilities, said the department hasn't made any specific changes, such as shifting schedules or shortening hours for outdoor workers, to deal with the heat.
Instead, Byrne said, LTU encourages its workers, the majority of whom work outside most of the year, to make "common-sense adjustments," such as taking more frequent breaks, doing the most labor-intensive work early in the day and keeping hydrated.
"They do what they can," he said. "There's no great solution."
Byrne said LTU also encourages workers to keep an eye on each other and watch for signs of heat illnesses.
"We don't want to see anybody get heat stress," he said.
People working outside aren't the only ones vulnerable in the hot conditions. This week's extreme heat can be dangerous for people experiencing homelessness — a population that has been of particular worry for Pastor Tom Barber, the CEO of the People's City Mission, Lincoln's only homeless shelter.
The nonprofit has spent this week "handing out massive amounts of bottled water" encouraging the city's homeless population — especially the "small but hardy group that doesn't tend to come to the mission" — to get indoors and stay there, Barber said.
"We're doing whatever we can. It's just tough times," he said, noting that the mission has handed out hundreds of bottles of water each day this week.
"If folks want to help, boy, a case of water is gold to us right now," he said.
Barber said the shelter, as of Thursday morning, hadn't had to summon emergency services for any of the mission's guests, but he said several nurses had been onsite to treat heat-related ailments, including heat exhaustion.
The mission's CEO compared this week's temperatures to the extreme cold fronts Lincoln battles each winter, which leave the city's homeless population at unique risk.
And though temperatures in the 90s aren't abnormal for this time of year in Nebraska, Barber, who has led the People's City Mission since 2004, said Wednesday's heat index is ushering the shelter into largely uncharted territory.
"We've never got into this kind of really, really hot weather," he said. "This is absolutely, uh, well — it's jaw dropping."
The extreme heat even threatened to wreak havoc for those staying indoors, prompting the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to implement some energy-saving measures after it was determined the chilled-water system wouldn’t be able to meet campus cooling demands.
UNL asked faculty, staff and students to close window curtains or drapes, turn off or dim electric lights, and shut off other electronics, and said room temperatures would be allowed to drift through the weekend.
“Allowing temperatures to rise in unoccupied rooms provides the best opportunity for us to meet campus demands,” said Mike Zeleny, vice chancellor for business and finance.
The good news is that Wednesday was likely the worst of the heat. The heat index soared to near 110 on Thursday and was forecast to do the same on Friday. But a cooldown is in store for the weekend, with temperatures Saturday and Sunday forecast to be right around 90, which is the average for this time of year.
"We're not doing what they're doing in the Southwest, where it's been excessively hot for weeks," DeWald said.
"Here, we're going to get a break."
Journal Star staff members Sawyer Belair, Chris Dunker, Matt Olberding and Andrew Wegley contributed to this story.
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SAN ANTONIO — A 13-year-old has been sent to the hospital after being mauled by several pit bulls on the far north side Thursday afternoon, said Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.
The incident occurred at 22220 Escalante Run around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Salazar says they got a call for a dog bite and when deputies arrived at the scene were told that a boy around 13-years-old was not moving. Salazar says the boy suffered severe dog bites from between two to six pit bulls. There were six pit bulls present in the home but officials are unsure how many were involved in the attack.
Luckily, the deputy on scene had training and specialized equipment to stabilize the teenager, according to Salazar.
"Hearing him describe some of the wounds this young man suffered it's pretty heartbreaking stuff. The young man had chunks of flesh missing from his back and his face," Salazar says.
The deputy says he counted at least 50 punctured wounds all over his body as he cut off some of the teen's clothing, according to Salazar.
"Certainly a savage attack no matter how you look at it, thankfully we had just the right deputy here because we don't have very many deputies that are certified to be paramedics to that level yet. This one happened to be one and did a great job."
According to officials, the teen is expected to survive and was sent to a local hospital. All six dogs have been taken into custody.
The young boy's parents were not home and he was left with a grandparent during the time of the attack, according to BCSO.
Salazar says it's too early to tell if there will be any criminal charges. The owner surrendered two dogs and the remaining will be under a 10-day observation.
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COMAL COUNTY, Texas — Comal ISD is striving to ensure each elementary school has a school resource officer in the upcoming academic year.
“We’ve already had a history of having school resource officers at our secondary campuses, middle school and high school,” said Steve Stanford, Comal ISD chief of communications. “With all the events, in particularly in Uvalde, with that tragedy there, the conversations about how about our elementary schools.”
The initiative began in April when the Comal ISD Board of Trustees committed to expanding a law enforcement presence beyond the middle and high schools.
Stanford said armed officers have been present at the elementary schools since last year, although on a rotational basis, meaning not every campus was covered.
“Recruiting and finding the individuals is going to be the biggest challenge,” Stanford said.
The district is working with multiple law enforcement agencies to recruit personnel for the 2023-2024 school year. Agencies include the Comal, Guadalupe and Bexar County sheriff’s offices as well as the Bulverde Police Department.
Stanford said law enforcement agencies are trying to hire their own full-time personnel so meeting the district’s needs for school resource officers can be difficult.
“That’s why they’re recruiting reserve officers. These are individuals who may be retired law enforcement or retired military,” Stanford said.
Stanford said Comal ISD is acting independent of the Texas Legislature when it comes to the initiative. Lawmakers passed House Bill 3, which mandates every Texas school district to require an armed employee at each campus.
“If the legislature had not passed House Bill 3 and there was no mandate to have these officers at our elementary schools, we would still be doing it,” Stanford said.
Shelby Aniroodh, a former Comal ISD teacher, is on board with the district’s effort to expand security to the elementary schools.
“My personal campus that I worked at in Comal ISD, we did have an armed guard and it definitely helped us teachers and students feel more safe,” Aniroodh said.
Stanford said it will take time for every elementary school to have an officer at every campus.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed a chair and three new members to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, with two of the new appointees coming from the Austin area.
Eric Nichols was appointed as the chair of the board, while Bill Welch, Nate Sprinkle and Sydney Zuiker will serve on the board through Feb. 1, 2029, when their terms are set to expire.
The new chair, Eric Nichols is an Austin native and a partner at the Butler Snow LLP law firm. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas and as Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice in the Office of the Texas Attorney General. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Texas Bar Foundation and the Austin Bar Foundation. Nichols is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the State Bar of Texas and is a trustee of the UT Law School Foundation, where he received his law degree.
Welch, another Austin native, is a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General. According to a release from the governor's office, Welch has previously held multiple senior leadership positions in security and law enforcement.
Welch is also a founder and former CEO of Apptronik, Inc., an Austin-based advanced robotics company. He received a degree in criminal justice from Community College of the Air Force, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Boston University and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin.
Sprinkle is a native of Richmond, Texas, near Houston. He is a senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Rosenberg and previously volunteered in pre-release rehabilitation programs in North and South Texas. According to the release, he currently counsels individuals in Fort Bend County after they are released.
Sprinkle received a Bachelor of Science in Math and Computer Science from Sul Ross State University in Alpine and a Master of Mission Science from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Forth Worth.
Sydney Zuiker is a Houston native who is currently the director of the Safe Community Institute for Crime Stoppers of Houston. She is a board member of Demand Disruption and a committee member for Advocates for the Children of Texas and Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition.
In 2021, Zuiker was recognized as one of Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 honorees for her public safety work in the community. Zuiker received a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from UT Austin and a Master's in Legal Forensic Psychology from the University of California, Irvine.
The Texas Board of Criminal Justice oversees the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and provides confinement, supervision, rehabilitation and reintegration of Texans convicted of felonies.
According to the National Institute of Corrections, as of 2020, Texas has 252 prisons and a jail population of 69,610 people; 2020 is the latest year's data reported from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI.
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DALLAS — The proof is in the box office: The "Barbenheimer" hype is real.
The dual release of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" last weekend had moviegoers flocking to the theaters.
And in the case of "Oppenheimer," some of those cinema fans are willing to watch a very early showing. You probably couldn't even call it a matinee.
The Cinemark Dallas XD and IMAX has offered "Oppenheimer" showtimes as early as 5:50 a.m., or as late as 2:30 a.m., depending on your perspective.
Or maybe you'll just pull an all-nighter and watch them back-to-back. "Barbie" has some early showings, too, including 8:15 a.m. on Sunday. But Cinemark's breakfast with "Oppenheimer," the earliest showings of which are on weekends, seems to be a result of the Dallas theater's unique offering: IMAX on film, which director Christopher Nolan has said is his preferred way to view his new blockbuster.
The Dallas Cinemark, located at 11819 Webb Chapel Road off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, is one of two theaters in Texas that show IMAX movies in 70mm film. The other location is in San Antonio.
Other IMAX theaters show movies on the big screen but on digital, instead of film.
Granted, most moviegoers might not notice the difference between digital and film. But if you're among those who do, you might want to set the alarm or have a midnight cup of coffee.
The only available showing in IMAX 70mm at the Dallas Cinemark on Friday is actually at 2:35 a.m. Saturday. Same goes for Saturday into Sunday morning, and no showings have tickets available Sunday during the day.
But you're in luck if you plan ahead: Next Saturday, Aug. 5, tickets are still available for a 6:50 a.m.
Coffee, with a side of nuclear physics.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Salem police investigated a suspicious package in a small business complex between Alice Avenue South and Candelaria Boulevard South on Thursday.
The Salem Police Department’s Bomb Squad was called to a parking lot in the 2700 block of Commercial Street SE around 2:19 p.m., according to a Tweet from Salem PD. By 3 p.m., they determined that there were no hazards on the scene.
Stay with KOIN 6 as we receive more information.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping a woman in a Gresham motel four years ago, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s office announced Thursday.
Themba Kelley, 54, a repeat offender, will be transported from Multnomah County to the Oregon Department of Corrections to serve his sentence.
Gresham police detectives spoke with the victim on Aug. 13, 2019, after she said that she met Kelley at Laurelhurst Park after he helped fix her car. Police said the victim followed Kelley into his hotel room after she showered and did laundry at the places he was staying.
“Once in the room, Kelley became aggressive, assaulted the victim as she struggled to get away, and raped her. Eventually, the victim was able to call friends (who then called 911), escape, and contact police as they were arriving at the motel. Responding officers located Kelley in the motel room and took him into custody,” MCSO said.
Kelley was convicted of first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sodomy on May 1.
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Man arrested after trying to sell tiger cub sentenced to 2 years probation
A man arrested earlier this year after trying to sell a tiger cub to an undercover Phoenix police officer will not be going to prison. Instead, Carlos Eduardo Castro-Alcaraz, 25, was sentenced to two years of supervised probation on Thursday morning.
Back in January, officers learned that he was trying to find interested buyers for a tiger cub on social media. After learning about the alleged plot by Castro-Alcaraz, officers then engaged with his social media profile and posed as a potential buyer.
He was selling the cub for $25,000, but undercover officers made a deal to buy the cub at a reduced price of $20,000 dollars. Officers arrested Castro-Alcaraz at his home near 27th Avenue and Baseline Road.
But the cub was not the only animal seized by authorities. An alligator and a dozen snapping turtles were seized and turned over to the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
The animals temporarily stayed at the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale, the tiger cub, now named Indy, has been transferred to a permanent home at the Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota.
Apart from the two years of probation that Castro-Alcaraz was given on Thursday, he is also forbidden from owning exotic animals while on probation and has been ordered to pay $6,000 dollars in restitution.
He was also ordered to forfeit interest in the tiger, alligator and 12 snapping turtles that were taken away back in January.
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What we know about 'miracle' reappearance of Glendale teen Alicia Navarro
New details have emerged on the near four-year disappearance case.
More information is emerging after the reappearance of Glendale teenager Alicia Navarro who had gone missing nearly four years ago.
Here is everything we know about the strange case.
What do we know about the disappearance?
Havre police, a department whose namesake town in Montana is a little more than 100 miles away from the Canada border, released a statement on social media describing how Navarro was located.
The now 18-year-old at 11 a.m. Sunday walked into the station and told authorities she had been missing and wanted to clear her status, police said in the statement released Thursday.
Navarro was reported missing on Sept. 15, 2019, when she was 14 years old, leaving a handwritten note apologizing and saying she would return.
“I ran away. I will be back, I swear. I'm sorry. - Alicia," the note read.
Additionally, Navarro as a child was diagnosed as "high functioning" on the autism spectrum.
On Tuesday afternoon, Glendale police released two short videos recorded during a FaceTime call where Navarro told investigators she had not been hurt in any way.
Navarro, with closed eyes, stutters as she tells officers that she understands when they say they want to help ensure she is safe. Investigators in the second video thank her for talking to them, and Navarro calmly thanks them for offering her help.
How has her family responded?
In a video posted Tuesday afternoon on Facebook, Navarro's mother, Jessica Nuñez, confirmed her daughter was alive and well while saying she did not know the details of the young woman's recovery and that she had only heard the update an hour before.
"I, first of all, want to give glory to God for answering your prayers and for this miracle," Nuñez said.
Nuñez suspected her daughter had been abducted.
"Whoever took my daughter thought that she was just going to be another statistic, that I was just going to let it be. And that's not going to happen," Nuñez previously told The Republic.
What else are police, investigators saying?
Glendale police had been the leading agency on the case and announced the teen had been located and was safe, healthy and happy on Wednesday.
Havre police expressed their well wishes for Navarro being reunited with her family.
"We are so glad for Alicia and her family so that they can be reunited and the family can no longer have the anguish of not knowing where their child is or whether or not she is ok," read a statement from the police department shared on social media.
Nuñez hired private investigator Trent Steele to work the case. Steele told The Arizona Republic on Thursday that he is still working the case and remains in touch with Glendale police, however, he did not specify in what capacity.
"The investigation is far from over. There is still a lot of moving pieces," Steele said. "There is still a lot of work to be done."
Steele said he could not comment on whether the state of Montana was part of any investigative leads he had. He said he could not yet say whether there were any persons of interest or suspects involved in the case.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Residents in one Roanoke neighborhood want a change in leadership.
Residents recently voted to remove the resident and secretary from the Grandin Court Neighborhood Association, claiming leaders did not properly express their views on what they would like to see happen in the area.
“It’s disappointing,” Freeda Cathcart, secretary for the Grandin Court Neighborhood Association said.
Sparks flew during a meeting last week where the president of the Grandin Court Neighborhood Association, and its secretary, Freeda Cathcart, were voted out, 63-25.
“When you’re dealing with an independent civic organization and you’re coming to oust your leadership and you haven’t been involved, it does give you pause,” Cathcart said.
Cathcart claims the vote to oust her and the president was “unlawful” and they are still the rightful leaders of the association. Cathcart sent an email to Roanoke City Council explaining why and she says certain bylaws were not followed.
Cathcart says she conducted due diligence when it came to what to do with the Fishburn Park Cottage.
One idea thrown out was upgrading it to a coffee shop.
“Neither the president nor I were opposed personally to the coffee shop, it doesn’t matter what you personally feel when you’re an officer,” Cathcart said.
Kenny Marn is the interim President of the Grandin Court Neighborhood Association.
“Several of the neighbors I know in the neighborhood feel like they are not representing the neighborhood when they speak for the neighborhood association,” Marn said.
Marn says the issue is larger than the coffee shop.
“There’s like a diverse group of opinions, and we feel they don’t respect that, it’s about the fact, in our opinion they’re mixing personal preferences with their role in the neighborhood association,” Marn said.
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ROANOKE VALLEY, Va. – It’s almost back to school and local districts need your help to “Load the Bus” with school supplies for students in need.
You can drop off donations at the Valley View, Bonsack, Clearbrook and Salem Walmarts.
They need everything from pens, pencils and paper to crayons and glue sticks. All supplies will be sent to Roanoke City, Roanoke County, Salem and Craig County Public Schools.
“We’re so thankful to the community coming out every year to provide these supplies for kids in need because it really, really does make a tremendous difference in student confidence,” said Roanoke County Public Schools Spokesperson Chuck Lionberger. “And if they start the school year with confidence, then they’re going to start the school year on a successful foot and that just leads to all sorts of great learning opportunities.”
The Load the Bus drive runs Friday, Aug. 4 through Sunday, Aug. 6:
- Friday (8/4): 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
- Saturday (8/5): 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Sunday (8/6): 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.
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ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – Sherry Howard’s daughter, Elisa, came out as transgender in 8th grade back in 2019. First, to her family, then her peers.
“As you can imagine as a parent it can be difficult to grasp,” Howard said.
Howard says the pandemic allowed them time to research, reflect and talk as a family, attending therapy together.
“And then when she was ready, when she went back to school, when school opened, she went back as Elisa,” Howard said.
Now 17 years old, Elisa is about to enter her senior year at Roanoke County Public Schools. Howard says they’ve already been through the process of legally changing Elisa’s official records to reflect her female identity. Elisa’s also undergoing hormone therapy.
But with the new state policies regarding transgender students, Howard worries what this could mean for her child and other transgender kids.
“Some of these model policies make it okay to discriminate and to bully against transgender students,” Howard said.
For Elisa’s safety, Howard did not want to publicly share Elisa’s picture, adding that her daughter has been bullied since transitioning.
“She has not been treated very well at school. it’s been a very tough transition for her,” Howard said. “She has friends at school. And she definitely has allies at school within the staff. But my fear is that these model policies will push that back.”
“It’s forcibly outing transgender students who haven’t come out to their parents, but feel safe enough to come out in schools,” Howard said. “LGBTQ children are at risk. They’re at risk. There’s a huge homeless population in LGBTQ youth.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a study of youth in grades 7-12 found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth were more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide as their heterosexual peers.
Roanoke County Public Schools have been the center of controversy when it comes to LGBTQ issues, including in books and classroom materials.
Glen Cove Elementary School parent Damon Gettier spoke out against LGBT materials in school at a board meeting back in May.
“I had to explain to my 9-year-old what transgender was because Glen Cove Elementary woke staff put me in a situation where I had to,” Gettier said.
Roanoke County Public Schools Spokesperson Chuck Lionberger says the district’s focus is ensuring a welcoming community for all.
“We’re here to teach students,” Lionberger said. “We’re here to help students learn. And we’re here to make sure that every single student, regardless of belief or background, feels confident and feels welcomed and included.”
But Howard says she fears the unknown.
“It’s going to hurt some children,” Howard said. “And it’s very scary as a parent. It’s very scary as an ally.”
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Elizabeth Archibeque’s 6-year-old son starved to death on March 2, 2020. On Thursday in Flagstaff, after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The victim and his 7-year-old brother were regularly kept inside a 21” x 25” bedroom closet for 16 hours a day and denied access to food and water.
Archibeque, according to testimony presented at her sentencing, did not allow her two sons to attend school. She also admitted to “enforcing” the policy that the boys be kept in the closet between the hours of 8 p.m. and noon every day.
According to the medical examiner, the 6-year-old victim weighed just 18 pounds at the time of his death.
Sgt. Melissa Seay with the Flagstaff Police Department was called by the state to testify Thursday. In 2020, Seay was one of the detectives investigating the child’s starvation death and the abuse of his brother.
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She described the closet, which was lined with orange plastic. Seay said the room, which was no wider than three volleyballs stacked side by side, smelled “putrid” and “like urine.”
Archibeque told investigators at the time of her son’s death that the boys were kept in the closet as punishment for “stealing food.”
On the morning of the victim’s death, the older brother had tried to crawl out of the closet to retrieve food from the kitchen. Seay said Archibeque told her she had “caught” the boy and told him to get back inside the confined space. That was just a few hours before her younger son died.
On Thursday, the attorney for the state, Michael Tunink, projected pictures on the courtroom wall. Those pictures, taken by investigators and narrated by Seay on the stand, showed a refrigerator stocked with food, a freezer that held cuts of meet, frozen fruit and ice cream, and a pantry lined with boxes of cereal, soda, snacks and cookies.
Tunink made the case, in showing image after image of the food that investigators found in Archibeque’s home, that the issue was not that she had a “lack of resources.”
Also admitted into evidence were photos of both boys — those pictures were not shown in court, and Tunink asked that they remain sealed from public record due to their “upsetting nature.”
Starved over the years
At the time of his death, the victim weighed less than he did at his 1-year wellness-check appointment.
According to records obtained from the child’s physician by Seay, the boy weighed 27 pounds at age 5, 34 at age 4, 27 at age 3, 24 at age 2 and 18.5 pounds at age 1.
The victim’s surviving brother was described by Seay as “skeletal,” and was starving to such a degree that he was hospitalized and tube-fed at Phoenix Children’s Hospital for weeks.
Archibeque was also handed a consecutive 10-year sentence for the abuse of her 7-year-old. In addition to submitting a guilty plea for first-degree murder on May 24, she pleaded guilty to child abuse for her treatment of her surviving 7-year-old son.
“I have never seen something so horrific before in my life,” said Seay, who has been a police officer more than 21 years. She took several long pauses to contain tears on the witness stand on Thursday.
While the two boys were locked in a closet, their 4-year-old sister was allowed to attend school. On the morning of the victim’s death, Archibeque had set an alarm for 11 a.m. to make sure she got her daughter ready for school on time.
When investigators encountered all four of Archibeque’s children, her two daughters were described as “healthy and well-dressed.”
When Seay interviewed the 7-year-old boy, he was not wearing a shirt or shoes and was unable to eat normally as a result of malnutrition. His foster mother said his “arms were the size of a broom handle” and he “looked like he swallowed a beach ball” the day she met him, and was so used to kneeling in the closet he couldn’t straighten his legs for almost a year.
The three surviving siblings are being cared for in the same foster home. Their foster mother presented their victim statement to Coconino Superior Court Judge Ted Reed on the morning of Archibeque’s sentencing.
In her statement, the children’s foster mother spoke to the enduring trauma suffered by the victim’s 7-year-old brother in particular.
At an age when most children are attending second grade, Archibeque’s surviving son had to be pushed in a stroller and reminded that he could leave his room to use the bathroom, according to his foster mother’s testimony.
In her statement, she told the judge the boy had suffered brain damage and would remain developmentally delayed. She also said the two girls, despite the difference in their physical care, also suffered lasting emotional harm.
“They still play games set for four,” she told the judge.
Turning to Archibeque, the children’s foster mother said, “I am eternally saddened that you threw away the privilege of being a mother.”
Cycle of trauma?
Archibeque’s defense team did not present any evidence or call any witnesses on Thursday.
However, in her presentation, Archibeque’s attorney, Christine Brown told the court that “Lizzie” was not a monster, but rather the victim of extreme trauma.
Brown argued Archibeque had suffered years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the children’s father — Anthony Martinez. Prior to that, the defendant had survived multiple suicide attempts and setbacks after being born with methamphetamine dependency.
Brown said Archibeque and Martinez had started dating when the defendant was just 16. Not long after, Martinez allegedly demanded that Archibeque drop out of school because he didn’t want her to be in different classrooms without his supervision.
The defense argued Martinez’s “controlling and jealous behavior” continued after the children were born, and said Martinez never let Archibeque breastfeed or comfort the boys.
The girls were a different story. Archibeque’s attorney argued that when she was allowed, Archibeque had tried to be an adequate mother to her children.
According to Brown, Archibeque told her that after more than two years of incarceration at the Coconino County Detention Facility, she felt “more free behind bars than she was with him [Martinez].”
Archibeque appeared in person to face her sentence Thursday, a soft-spoken and diminutive 29-year-old woman with dark curly hair pulled into a high bun. For most of the morning, she kept her eyes downcast, her expression hidden from onlookers in the gallery.
During her statement to the court she said, “I don’t take this lightly, I blame myself. … I’m just grateful they’re in a home right now and I fully accept what is given to me [today]"
She added: "All I can do now is not give up on my three angels that are still here. My heart is shattered.”
Reed found Archibeque’s past “extreme trauma beginning at birth” to be a mitigating factor in her case. He also acknowledged she had “violated a very special position of trust as their mother.”
Reed found her crimes to be “absolutely heinous and cruel behavior,” especially given that she would have seen the boy’s declining condition, and had denied them outside contact and the ability to ask for help.
Ann Marie Martinez, the children’s grandmother, also lived in the apartment where the abuse occurred. She is set to stand trial beginning Jan. 25, 2024.
The children’s father also faces charges in this case and has entered a not-guilty plea. A date for his trial has not yet been set.
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