Month: May 2023

Susan Istenes, director of the City of Springfield’s Planning and Development Department, resigned from her position Tuesday afternoon, effective immediately, officials confirmed this afternoon. The department is temporarily headed by Brendan Griesemer, who had served as assistant director and is now listed on the department’s website as interim director. Cora Scott, the city’s director of public information and civic engagement, said Griesemer has worked in that department for a long time. “We don’t expect any disruption,” he said. No reason was given for Istenes’ resignation, and Scott noted that the city does not comment on employment matters. Reached via Facebook,…

STOUGHTON, Mass. – Police are continuing to investigate an apparent road rage incident that ended in a shooting and crash in Stoughton Wednesday night. Officers responding to a report of a crash at the intersection of Plain and West streets around 9:15 p.m. learned that a vehicle had an occupant who had been shot, according to the Stoughton Police Department. A shot was fired from a black sedan and struck the driver of a white SUV, police said. A third vehicle unrelated to the incident was involved in the accident. A total of five people were taken to the hospital,…

FARMLAND – A Farmland firefighter died this morning when a fire truck overturned while responding to a call. Kyle T. Osgood, deputy chief of the Farmland Volunteer Fire Department, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash this morning. “This one’s going to take a while,” the Farmland firefighter said Jeff Willen this morning. Another firefighter, Zachary Lee, 19, suffered serious injuries and was airlifted for treatment. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security confirmed details about the incident in a press release shortly after noon today. Osgood and Lee were responding to a call about a barn fire when…

TAMPA — As we celebrate high school scholarship recipients this week, we’re bringing you the story of a Tampa teenager who plans to pursue a career in journalism. What you need to know Lilly Molina is a Spectrum News High School Scholar She will receive a $1,000 scholarship and plans to study journalism at Elon University Molina has a 4.0 GPA and is president of the school’s National Honor Society The day we met Lilly Molina, it was straight to a National Honor Society officer meeting after school. Molina is the president. “I was vice president last year and I…

URBANA — A Champaign man remained in the county jail Thursday after being arrested at a stranger’s home Tuesday. A Champaign police report said a neighbor reported a man had climbed through a window of a home in the 700 block of South Randolph Street around 7 p.m. Police found Marco A. Lara-Schriever, 26, who listed an address in the 400 block of West Vine Street, inside the apartment with one of his palms bleeding from a cut. Lara-Schriever told the officer that she had the tenant’s permission to be there, but police confirmed that the person whose name she…

Aspen will be back on the International Ski Federation World Cup calendar next year, it was announced Thursday morning. According to a post on the FIS Alpine World Cup Tour Facebook page, the men’s giant slalom and slalom will return to Aspen on March 2-3, 2024, the penultimate stop of the season before the world championships in Saalbach, Austria. The schedule marks a pivot in Aspen events from this year, which included two downhills and a super-G over the three days. Aspen was not on the women’s schedule, which will only come to the U.S. Nov. 25-26 in Killington, Vermont….

The latest search for Madeleine McCann has ended in Portugal as tents were dismantled and heavy machinery removed from the site. Officers have spent three days combing a reservoir and surrounding scrub after receiving “certain tips”. It is not yet known if anything relevant has been found, but several bags were removed from the site. A police boat entered the water this Tuesday at the Arade dam, in the municipality of Silves. Image: A police search team works on the edge of the Arade dam. Image: AP staff he started digging in an area of ​​land on a peninsula in…

For Vince McDonagh – May 25, 2023 A dramatic late deal appears to have been reached on the Norwegian government’s proposed salmon tax. The Labor-Centre coalition appears to have reached an agreement on the salmon tax or land rent tax with the Venstre Party (Liberal) and the Patient Approach, which has just one seat in the Norwegian Parliament . According to the financial news portal e.24.no, the Liberals have achieved their demand to reduce the basic rate to 25%. It was originally 40% and political horse trading had reduced it to 35%. Whether this will be enough to satisfy the…