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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.

Aaron Alan Gelhausen: Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Theft (Class A misdemeanor), Theft (Class A misdemeanor), Disobeying a declaration of disaster emergency (Class B misdemeanor)

Timothy Allen Collier: Auto theft (Level 6 Felony)

Jeremy Ryan Reed: Invasion of privacy (Level 6 Felony), Theft (Class A misdemeanor)

Tormarr Sam Bell: Criminal confinement (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Class A misdemeanor)

Elijah Hosea Akpan: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Kenny Caryl Connor Jr.: Strangulation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Latorryeon Elijah Shammer Haywood: Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor)

Antoine Jerrico Mockobee: Domestic battery resulting in moderate bodily injury (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Jaron Brady Stewart: Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Neglect of a dependent (Level 6 Felony)

Gabriel K. Wyatt: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Emmanuel Tashaje Crowe: Criminal confinement (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Criminal mischief (Class B misdemeanor)

Craig Allen Morris: Theft (Level 6 Felony)

Elijah Hosea Akpan: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Kenny Caryl Connor Jr.: Strangulation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Latorryeon Elijah Shammer Haywood: Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor)

Antoine Jerrico Mockobee: Domestic battery resulting in moderate bodily injury (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Jaron Brady Stewart: Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Neglect of a dependent (Level 6 Felony)

Gabriel K. Wyatt: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Emmanuel Tashaje Crowe: Criminal confinement (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Criminal mischief (Class B misdemeanor)

Craig Allen Morris: Theft (Level 6 Felony)

EPD REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Ivy Tech ASAP Students Cook Meal for their Families – Together/But Apart

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4 p.m., Saturday, May 2

ZOOM (see bottom of email for details)

Ivy Tech’s Associate Accelerated Program (ASAP) students will be cooking the same meal in each of their 12 homes, at the same time – together/but apart – with their instructor Associate Professor Scott O’Daniel and his family. ASAP is the accelerated program in which students are able to earn an associate degree in just 11 months at Ivy Tech Community College Evansville.

 

Because one of the hallmarks of the program is that students often get very close because they attend class 8 hours a day during those 11 months, and all with each other in the same classroom, they develop a bond, a very close-knit relationship with each other. Most times they consider each other “family.” While this Stay at Home order has been tough on all students, it has been especially challenging for the ASAP students who had grown so attached to each other and were really missing their lack of interactivity.

 

Professor O’Daniel devised this as a way to bring back some of that feeling, and you are invited to join the Zoom “cooking.”   While the actual cooking part will begin at 4 p.m., we have the Zoom meeting opened up at 3 p.m. in case you would want to interview O’Daniel beforehand about why he is doing it, and what ASAP is about. (More info about this accelerated program can be found at ivytech.edu/asap

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VANDERBURGH COUNTY RECENT BOOKING RECORDS

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https://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/jail-recent-booking-records.aspx

EPA Provides Grant Funding to Support Environmental Justice Communities Impacted by COVID-19

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to improve the environment and public health conditions of low-income and minority communities through our daily efforts to ensure all Americans have clean air, safe water, and access to information to make decisions to protect personal and public health. In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, EPA is making $1 million in grant funding available to states to help local environmental justice communities address COVID-19 concerns faced by low-income and minority communities.

Through the State Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreement Program, EPA will provide funds to states, local governments, tribes and U.S. territories to work collaboratively with environmental justice communities to understand, promote and integrate approaches to provide meaningful and measurable improvements to public health and the environment.

“Environmental justice grants aim to support public education, training, and emergency planning for communities across the country impacted by COVID-19, regardless of their zip code,” said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. “These grants are part of EPA’s effort to actively fight the COVID-19 pandemic that is having a disproportionate impact on low-income and minority communities.”
The grant funding will be used to support public education, training, and emergency planning for communities impacted by COVID-19. Projects could include sharing information related to EPA-approved disinfectants to combat COVID-19; addressing increased exposure of residents to in-home pollutants and healthy housing issues; and training community health workers.

EPA anticipates awarding five grants of approximately $200,000 each for up to a two-year funding period. The agency encourages applicants to develop innovative plans and processes to conduct effective outreach to underserved communities, especially in places where Internet access may not be readily available to all residents.

Interested applicants must submit proposal packages on or before June 30, 2020 to be considered for the available funding.

Trump Administration Proactively Warned States on COVID-19 Nursing Homes Crisis

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Trump Administration Proactively Warned States on COVID-19 Nursing Homes Crisis

by Stephen Witt
Queens County Politics
April 24, 2020, in Government

 

President Donald Trump‘s administration has been warning states in a number of memorandums since as early as Feb. 6 to prepare the nation’s nursing homes for the COVID-19 threat, KCP has learned.

But despite the numerous warnings and memorandums from the Trump administration to be better prepared, scores of people in nursing homes have died around the borough, leaving the dead in the facilities for days, families unnotified, and nursing homes workers complaining of not having personal protective equipment (PPE).

The documented proof of Trump administration and warnings and declarations was presented yesterday following the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement of new regulatory requirements that will require nursing homes to inform residents, their families, and representatives of COVID-19 cases in their facilities.

In addition, as part of Trump’s Opening Up America, CMS will now require nursing homes to report cases of COVID-19 directly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This information must be reported in accordance with existing privacy regulations and statutes. This measure augments longstanding requirements for reporting infectious disease to State and local health departments. Finally, CMS will also require nursing homes to fully cooperate with CDC surveillance efforts around COVID-19 spread.

“Nursing homes have been ground zero for COVID-19. Today’s action supports CMS’ longstanding commitment to providing transparent and timely information to residents and their families,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “Nursing home reporting to the CDC is a critical component of the go-forward national COVID-19 surveillance system and to efforts to reopen America.”

The CMS first memorandum issued on February 6, warned healthcare facilities to the threat of the 2019-Novel Coronavirus and advised health care providers and State Survey Agencies (SAs), the entities that inspect healthcare facilities, including nursing homes, to ensure compliance with current CMS requirements and safety standards.

Then on March 4, CMS issued new guidance related to the screening of entrants into nursing homes, informed by CDC recommendations. On March 10, CMS issued guidance related to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) usage and optimization. On March 13, CMS issued guidance for a nationwide restriction on nonessential medical staff and all visitors, except in compassionate care situations.

Shortly after that announcement, Trump declared a national emergency, enabling the agency to take even stronger action. CMS then announced a suspension of routine inspections, and an exclusive focus on situations in which residents are in immediate jeopardy for serious injury or death, and implemented a new inspection tool based on the latest guidance from CDC.

Additionally, on April 2, CMS issued a call to action for nursing homes and state and local governments. It included guidance that reinforced infection control responsibilities and urged leaders to work closely with nursing homes in their communities to determine needs for COVID-19 testing and personal protective equipment.

The recommendations also urged state and local officials to work with nursing homes to designate certain sites for COVID-19-positive or COVID-19-negative patients to avoid further transmissions.

Nursing homes are under the regulatory jurisdiction of the state Department of Health (DOH) and not the city. Thus far the state’s only action to address the situation was Gov. Andrew Cuomo issuing an executive order last week requiring nursing homes to report positive COVID-19 cases and deaths to the families of those who are living in the nursing home facility within 24 hours.

Previously, the DOH issued guidance asking these facilities to communicate this information to families; this new order makes that guidance mandatory.

Despite the multiple Trump Administration memorandums, media outlets have been reporting the tragic amount of deaths at Brooklyn nursing homes starting with the KCP exclusive of eight bodies being left for days at the Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.

The hardest-hit nursing facility thus far during the pandemic has been the Cobble Hill Health Center where 55 patients have died followed by 34 dead at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation in Brooklyn.

As of last Friday evening, 3,316 elderly nursing resident residents died at either nursing homes, adult daycare facilities, or hospitals from COVID-19. Of that total, the virus killed 2,056 nursing residents in New York City.

WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY

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WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY

Gavel Gamut By Jim Redwine

www.jamesmredwine.com

For about 200,000 years Homo sapiens did without air conditioning. Other than the opening or closing the animal hide, reed, or cloth flap covering their cave or hut openings our ancestors did not worry about the atmosphere, whether inside or out. Sitting beside a fire pit or chimney, people were happy to simply huddle together when it was cold, probably in groups of ten or less. When it came to keeping cool we just opened windows. This provided untold benefits that humanity appears to have now lost sight of.

Fresh air, reduced utility costs, and portals for tossing out dirty dishwater disappeared. We began to regurgitate air previously breathed by others and which sometimes contains mold spores and other unhealthy elements. Remember Legionnaires Disease that was traced to air conditioning units for large buildings such as hotels and convention centers and which was and still is particularly deadly for people fifty years of age, people with weak immune systems, those with lung problems and smokers. Sound familiar?

When combating COVID-19, fresh air and warmer weather make sense to me. And while I chose not to pursue a graduate degree in psychology, I can confidently assert that better mental health results from fresh air rather than social isolationism made even more isolated by closed windows. We used to be able to rent a hotel room and eat at restaurants while enjoying the ambiance of open windows. Then pencil pushers began to control every aspect of our days and nights by requiring windows that could not be raised. This may be good for corporate earnings but it is anathema for human health, physical and mental.

If governors and state legislators want to do some real good at no cost to taxpayers they can require that all windows be openable. They can still have locking devices available. Under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, these issues are the province of the states.

Should we be concerned that as people watch the economy continue to slide toward 1929 levels they might be tempted to jump out, a couple of bars on the outside of windows should discourage such impulses while still allowing for fresh air?

I know that simply opening windows suffers from the anti-governmental approach. It is inexpensive. It has proven effective for a couple of hundred thousand years. And it puts the control in the hands of the public, not bureaucrats. In spite of these political drawbacks, I still recommend it.

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Insulin Available For $35 Through New Program

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Insulin Available For $35 Through New Program

by Wendy McNamara

With many Hoosiers facing financial hardships, they should not have to forgo lifesaving medication like insulin. To help those with diabetes, Eli Lilly launched the Lilly Insulin Value Program. This allows anyone with commercial insurance and those without insurance to fill their monthly prescription of Lilly insulin for $35, and the program covers most Lilly insulins, including all Humalog formulations.

Call the Lilly Diabetes Solution Center at 833-808-1234 to request a card, which can be emailed or sent through the U.S. Postal Service. The center is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. Active co-pay cards have been reset, so no action is necessary for those who already have a co-pay card from Lilly Diabetes Solution Center with an amount higher than $35.

The Solution Center can also help individuals find options to reduce their out-of-pocket costs further, with some even qualifying for free insulin.

USI Board Of Trustees Approves Test Optional Admission Process

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USI Board Of Trustees Approves Test Optional Admission Process

At its regular meeting on Friday, May 1, the University of Southern Indiana Board of Trustees approved a proposal to eliminate the requirement for undergraduate applicants to submit standardized test scores, beginning with the 2021-22 academic year.

In this Test Optional Admissions process, students applying for admission to USI would not need to submit Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or American College Testing (ACT) scores as part of the application process. Certain programs, merit-based and USI Foundation scholarships, may still require SAT or ACT scores, and some students may still be requested to submit scores after review of their application.

The new Test Optional Admissions program will begin for applicants in the Fall 2021 cohort. In March, the University suspended the requirement for standardized test scores for the Fall 2020 cohort as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic; this proposal was developed independently of that decision.

A list of frequently asked questions and answers regarding Test Optional Admissions can be found on the USI website at USI.edu/admissions/incoming-freshmen/test-optional-information/.

President’s Medalist recognized

Jean Marie Uwimana

As part of his report to the Board of Trustees, President Ronald S. Rochon officially recognized Jean Marie Uwimana, the 2020 recipient of the USI President’s Medal.

Uwimana, who grew up in the Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe, before receiving a Global Ambassador Scholarship to attend USI, is graduating summa cum laude with a double major in economics and mathematics with a concentration in actuarial and minors in finance, computer science and statistics. As a student, Uwimana was a Global Ambassador and 2017 Outstanding Sophomore award recipient and served in many campus leadership roles.

The President’s Medal is the highest honor presented to a student and is awarded each year to a member of the graduating class. Uwimana was scheduled to receive the award and be honored at the Spring 2020 Romain College of Business Commencement Ceremony prior to its postponement due to COVID-19.

In other business, the USI Board of Trustees approved promotion and tenure for faculty members and received the annual report from USI’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council.

NEW HARMONY GAZETTE MAY 2020 EDITION

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New Harmony Gazette May 2020

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