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HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - A Hernando County woman is facing several charges of animal cruelty after deputies say they removed several malnourished horses and a dead foal and puppy from her home.

According to deputies, after receiving numerous complaints regarding possible animal neglect at a home located off of Rochelle Road in Brooksville, Hernando County Sheriff's Office Animal Enforcement Officers reached out to the animal owner, Jessica Wilson, in order to monitor the condition of her animals.

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June 27, 2021 at 10:35AM
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Aspen Misc.: Aspen Times readers send in their favorite photos - Aspen Times

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Arkansas asked to send state troopers for Mexican border duty; Hutchinson 'evaluating' - Arkansas Times

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Governor Hutchinson is considering a request by Texas and Arizona governors to deploy state troopers for Mexican border security.

Said Shealyn Sowers, his communications director:

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Arizona and Texas sent a formal request  for support.  We are evaluating our resources and technical issues.  At this time, no Arkansas state troopers have been sent to the border and there are no current plans to do so.

The cost — personnel, travel, accommodations, meals — isn’t known. Nor is it clear how the deployment would affect the performance of duties in-state.

At least four other Republican states have agreed to send troopers, from two dozen to 30, for two-week deployments.

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Iowa became the latest state to announce a willingness to send troopers. Governor Kim Reynolds said it would contribute to the protection of Iowans because ill effects of illegal crossings — drug smuggling and human trafficking — eventually reach Iowa. The specific mission is unclear.

Abbott and Doug Ducey of Arizona requested help under an interstate compact to provide mutual aid in emergencies. Nebraska, Florida and Idaho — all led by  Republicans — have agreed. News reports say they sent letters to all governors June 10.

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There has been an increase in migrants reaching the U.S. border, but most are being turned away. The U.S. has been accepting children and some families, which has, in turn, prompted criticism of crowding of border facilities and holding children for longer than 72 hours.

The call for troopers, led prominently by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, is intended as a political attack on the Biden administration. Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, for example, cited a rise in border crossings this year in defending his deployment. But the AP noted

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded more than 180,000 encounters on the Mexican border in May, the most since March 2000. But the numbers were boosted by a pandemic-related ban on seeking asylum, which encouraged repeated attempts to cross the border because getting caught carried no legal consequences.

Critics questioned the need to send Nebraska law enforcement agents to the border.

Rose Godinez, a legal and policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska, said federal officials have more than enough resources to patrol the border.

“We see this as an effort by Gov. Ricketts to politicize this issue,” Godinez said.

She said the border crossings are a symptom of the federal government’s failure for years to pass broader changes to the U.S. immigration system.

“It adds to the question of why the state patrol is needed down there,” she said. “This is not the best use of their time.”

The mission of the troopers being sent remains unclear.

Abbott has claimed a fentanyl smuggling crisis in his decision to send 1,000 National Guard and troops to the border. He’s also proposed that Texas pay to build more border walls. Texas Monthly reports that border residents say the deployed troops are more of a nuisance than an effective crime-fighting force. Anecdote:

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Twice a week, Terence Garrett drives the same stretch of Texas Highway 48 from his home in Laguna Vista to the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, where he chairs the Department of Public Affairs and Security Studies. The 35-minute drive gives him a chance to take account of the ebbs and flows of border security, which he ponders while listening to Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and other jazz favorites. Over the past decade, the presence of state law enforcement has grown from a smattering of black-and-white DPS vehicles to a near-ubiquitous army of troopers—part of a Texas-ification of border enforcement that costs taxpayers about $500 million a year.

One day in the fall of 2019, a DPS trooper stopped Garrett. The official reason: he was going 3 miles over the 65-miles-per-hour speed limit, but the trooper, apparently bored and lonely, confided that the infraction was really an excuse for human interaction. “He told me he just wanted somebody to talk to—seriously, this happened,” Garrett said. The trooper mentioned that he was from the Dallas area and inquired about the University of Oklahoma sticker on Garrett’s car. They chatted about Oklahoma’s rivalry with the University of Texas and about the Dallas Cowboys. The conversation was brief and friendly, and the trooper let him off with a warning. For Garrett, the interaction was an amusing confirmation of his view that the DPS deployments amount to an expensive show of force that targets residents of the Rio Grande Valley rather than smugglers and unauthorized immigrants. The latest show of force by the DPS began on March 4, when Governor Greg Abbott announced Operation Lone Star, sending a thousand state troopers to the Texas borderlands to “to deny Mexican Cartels and other smugglers the ability to move drugs and people into Texas.”

Border security special operations are a political staple in Texas.

For the current operation, Abbott blamed the Biden administration’s “open border policies” for causing what he called a humanitarian crisis. Garrett said the true motive is simpler than that: “It’s political theater. That’s why we began hearing about a crisis on the border after President Biden’s inauguration when, in fact, there isn’t one.”

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Rays win 4th in a row, send Angels to 5th straight loss - Associated Press

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Shane McClanahan pitched six effective innings, Brett Phillips drove in three runs and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Los Angeles Angels 13-3 Saturday for their fourth straight win.

Manuel Margot and Mike Zunino homered for Tampa Bay. Ji-Man Choi had four hits and drove in two runs as the Rays improved to 6-0 against the Angels this season

“I’m going to tell you what it’s like, it’s like waking up on Christmas morning as a kid and seeing all the presents,” Phillips said. “All the exciting things that you can imagine when you score a lot of runs like that. Everyone is excited and happy.”

Seven Tampa Bay players scored and eight had a hit.

The Angels have lost five in a row overall.

“We just got beat,” Los Angeles manager Joe Maddon said. “We’ve just to throw this one away and come back tomorrow and play it right.”

McClanahan (3-2) allowed three runs and four hits, all coming in the third inning.

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“That’s just baseball,” McClanahan said. “Reset my mind and kept attacking.”

Phillips, hitless in his previous 15 at-bats, connected on a two-run triple to deep center off Alex Cobb (5-3). He scored on a wild pitch during a four-run fourth as Tampa Bay went up 6-3.

Phillips added an RBI single in a five-run seventh that made it 13-3.

Cobb dropped to 0-6 in eight starts against his former team after giving up six runs and six hits in four innings. He went 48-35 with Tampa Bay from 2011-17.

Shohei Ohtani bounced an RBI double over Choi at first base and Anthony Rendon flared a two-run double down the right-field line off an 100-mph fastball from McClanahan as the Angels took a 3-2 lead in the third.

Ohtani’s hit left the bat at 29 mph, the lowest to result in an extra-base hit since StatCast data is available starting in 2015.

“When you’ve got a lead, you’ve got to hold onto it,” Maddon said. “You’ve got to finish games off, all the different things that a winning team does. That is winning baseball, and that’s what we have to do.”

Los Angeles scored twice in the first inning of Friday’s 4-3 loss to the Rays.

The Angels loaded the bases later in the third when rookie shortstop Wander Franco was charged with his first big league error after misplaying Taylor Ward’s two-out grounder. McClanahan avoided further damage by getting a fly ball from José Iglesias.

Margot hit a two-run drive off Cobb during the second. It was just the third homer allowed by the right-hander in 11 starts this season.

Zunino hit his 16th homer in the sixth.

Franco went 0 for 4 and had his average drop to .105. He is hitless in 16 at-bats since having a homer and double Tuesday in his major league debut. He walked with the bases loaded in the seventh.

“Nothing that we’re concerned about,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. “Yesterday he just misses a ball. He smoked a ball that the right fielder made a nice play on. If he keeps hitting balls like that, they’re going to find holes.”

OHTANI!

Ohtani’s homer off a catwalk about 65 feet above the right-field stands Friday continued to be a topic of discussion.

Maddon believes it went farther than the estimated 453 feet.

“If it didn’t hit the ring I’m not sure it would have gone out” a laughing Cash said. “Nobody else can do what he does, both sides of the ball.”

Cash is also amazed at Ohtani’s foot speed.

“He gets down the line as fast as anybody I’ve seen,” Cash said.

BONUS BULLPEN

The Rays have the best AL bullpen ERA and a key contributor from the 2020 AL championship team, RHP Nick Anderson, is throwing off a mound and expected back in August.

Anderson (right elbow sprain) had an 0.55 ERA in 19 games last year.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Rays: LHP Josh Fleming (right calf strain) went on the 10-day IL.

UP NEXT

Angels LHP Patrick Sandoval (2-2) will start Sunday. Rays LHP Ryan Yarbrough (4-3) will either start or follow an opener.

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June 27, 2021 at 06:22AM
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Israel to send search and rescue delegation to Miami after building collapse - Haaretz

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Defense Minister Benny Gantz has approved sending a search-and-rescue delegation to Miami, Florida to assist rescue efforts following the collapse of a residential building, where four people have died and over 150 are still missing. 

The delegation will include soldiers from the IDF Home Front Command who specialize in engineering and medical treatment. The delegation was organized by Israeli officials in the defense and foreign ministries, as well as the IDF, in coordination with Florida's state government.

"As in every national mission, the IDF and the defense establishment are prepared to respond, act and help," Gantz said. "We will make every effort needed to save human lives and support the Jewish community and our American friends."  

United Hatzalah, an Israeli volunteer-based emergency services organization, said a group of its workers would be flying to Miami on Saturday evening to assist those affected in the building collapse.

A beachfront condo building partially collapsed Thursday outside Miami, killing at least one person and trapping others in the tower. Dozens of survivors have been pulled out, and rescuers kept up a desperate search for more.

A wing of the 12-story building in the community of Surfside came down with a roar around 1:30 A.M. By late afternoon, nearly 100 people were still unaccounted for, authorities said, raising fears that the death toll could climb sharply. Officials did not know how many were in the tower when it fell.

What caused the 40-year-old high-rise to tumble into a heap in a matter of seconds was not immediately known, though local officials said the 12-story tower was undergoing roof construction and other repairs.

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“The building is literally pancaked,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said. “That is heartbreaking because it doesn’t mean, to me, that we are going to be as successful as we wanted to be in finding people alive.”

The Surfside neighborhood is a largely Jewish one, where one third of local residents are believed to be Orthodox Jews. Surfside is one of four small cities that together make up North Beach, and the area is more than a third Jewish. In total, North Beach has more than 14,000 residents and more than 5,000 Jews, according to Ira Sheskin, who authored a 2014 Jewish population study on the greater Miami area.

Miami Beach is freckled with synagogues and kosher restaurants. The Jews of North Beach, in particular, are more observant than American Jews as a whole, according to Sheskin. They’re 34 percent Orthodox, 24 percent Conservative, 18 percent Reform and 24 percent “just Jewish.” By contrast, American Jews more generally are about 10 percent Orthodox.

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Learning to ‘Don’t press Send!’ - Sampson Independent

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One of my favorite sports figures is Herm Edwards. Edwards is a former pro football player and is now coaching at Arizona State University. Back when he was working for ESPN, his thoughts on football and other subjects were always interesting and entertaining. Some of you may remember Herm from a press conference years ago when he was head coach of the New York Jets. When asked about his team’s effort in a losing cause, he replied with a now famous quote, “You play to win the game!”

On ESPN, he was once asked about a current football player who had posted something on social media that had caused problems for the player and his team. Herm answered, “The solution is simple, don’t press Send!” Other commentators on the network picked up the quote. When someone in sports would send out something on social media that backfired and caused problems, the folks at ESPN often said, “As Herm said, ‘Don’t press Send!’”

I thought about that Herm Edwards quote this past week when hearing of the recent Supreme Court case involving a high school girl and her phone. Brandi Levy, who was 14 at the time, failed to make her high school varsity cheerleading squad. She proceeded to get on her phone and spill out some very profane language about her school and cheerleading on Snapchat. The post got back to the school, so the school responded by removing her from the junior varsity squad.

Instead of backing the school and using it as a teachable moment for their daughter, her parents did what is now the preferred response. They sued the school. The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court where it rule 8 to 1 in favor of the girl. The favorable ruling was based on the girl’s First Amendment right of free speech, since it took place off campus.

So Brandi Levy won her case. In response, she stated, “The school went too far, and I’m glad the Supreme Court agrees. I was frustrated, I was 14 years old, and I expressed my frustration the way teenagers do today.” Well, I suppose that makes it okay.

It seems like there are a lot of folks around who need to listen to Herm Edwards. I bet there are some high school students who thought they were going to Harvard University a couple of years ago, who wish they had.

The Associated Press reported then that “at least 10 students who were accepted to Harvard University had their admission offers revoked because they made offensive comments online, the university’s student newspaper reported. The Harvard Crimson (The Harvard campus newspaper) reported that some students in the incoming freshman class created a private Facebook group in December where they traded images and messages that were often sexually explicit and sometimes mocked racial minorities. The university tells accepted students that their offers can be withdrawn if their behavior ‘brings into question their honesty, maturity or moral character,’ among a variety of other reasons.”

Those students aren’t the only ones who end up regretting having pressed that Send or Post button. More and more institutions and potential employers are checking social media history. The words and images posted online are being used to evaluate potential new students, employees, etc. They may discover that what sounds and looks cool to your teenage or young adult friends might not appear that way to your fifty year old potential future employer.

So the Supreme Court judged a case this week they really shouldn’t have had to hear in the first place. The solution could have been some parental discipline, while working with the school. Then, maybe someone would have learned, as Herm said, to “Don’t press Send!”

Mac McPhail, raised in Sampson County, lives in Clinton. McPhail’s new book, “Wandering Thoughts from a Wondering Mind,” a collection of his favorite columns, is available for purchase at the Sampson Independent office, online on Amazon, or by contacting McPhail at [email protected]

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June 26, 2021 at 05:43PM
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CONDO COLLAPSE: Local agencies send special ops team to help with rescues - WFLA

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Posted: Jun 26, 2021 / 07:36 AM EDT/ Updated: Jun 26, 2021 / 09:21 AM EDT

This photo provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, search and rescue personnel search for survivors through the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside, Fla., section of Miami, Friday, June 25, 2021. The apartment building partially collapsed on Thursday. (Miami-Dade Fire Rescue via AP)

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Local agencies are set to begin helping with rescue efforts out of Surfside to locate the still missing victims in a condominium collapse Thursday.

Florida Task Force Three — a special operations team made up of personnel from Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, Tampa Fire Rescue and St. Petersburg Fire Rescue — left early Saturday.

The convoy includes physicians, engineers, and K9 teams with 72 hours of training for collapsed structure rescue. They are taking 24 vehicles of equipment for rescue and housing personnel to help support Task Force.

The team is expected to begin work by noon Saturday. They will stay in Surfside for a week.

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