Blasting News | Stars close on 22-4 run to beat Liberty 93-81 News & Observer Kayla McBride scored a career-high 31 points and the San Antonio Stars closed on a 22-4 run to beat the New York Liberty 93-81 on Tuesday night. San Antonio trailed 77-71 with 6:48 left but the Stars held New York scoreless for the final 3:25. McBride ... Stars Shut Down Liberty At Finish San Antonio Stars top New York Liberty 93-81 |
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LIBERTY The 80th FirstEnergy All-American Soapbox Derby World Championship wrapped up July 22 in Akron, Ohio and one of the drivers that took home a world championship hails from Liberty.
Brianna Roth, a 15-year-old Liberty High School student, placed first in the Local Superstock Division of the annual event which takes place in Akron, Ohio each year. Roth won the local race at the 6th annual Soapbox Derby held in Liberty back in May, which made her eligible to compete in the FirstEnergy All-American Soapbox Derby World Championship. This year the event had over 425 worldwide participants.
We are thrilled to bring home this championship to the Town of Liberty, said Roths mom Melissa Diehl. Brianna worked so hard for this and I couldnt be more proud.
Brianna was awarded with a championship trophy and ring, as well as a $3,000 scholarship at a special awards banquet following the race. The car, named MOJO, that Brianna raced in is owned by Morgan Van Keuren, who has previously raced the same car for many years. Morgan Van Keuren was also Briannas car handler during the race in Ohio.
We are so excited for Briannas world championship win, said Town of Libertys Interim Supervisor Russell Reeves. Our local Soapbox Derby earlier this year is a great community event and we were pleased to hear that Brianna not only qualified for the All-American Soapbox Derby World Championship in Ohio but also that she brought home a big win.
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More evacuation warnings issued for...
SEELEY LAKE, Mont. - The Missoula County Sheriff's Office extended an evacuation warning for Cottonwood Lakes Road. The area has been closed to access after the Rice Ridge Fire has grown 300 to 500 acres Monday, totaling 1,994 acres. An evacuation warning was issued Monday for Placid Lake, affecting around 170 residents.
The Seeley Lake Elementary School was packed with residents wanting more information, and officials say community members should get used to firefighters in town. A Type II Incident Team will be relieving the current team.
Seeley Lake and Placid Lake sit between the Liberty Fire to the west and the Rice Ridge Fire to the northeast. Officials say the fire is about 3 miles from communities in either direction.
The Liberty Fire started on July 15 and was under the control of the CSKT Division of Fire. Since its start the fire was holding at 600 acres. Sunday one fire spot grew 80 acres in 15 minutes, eventually growing 1,600 acres in one burn period. It spread from the Flathead Reservation to the Lolo National Forest.
Authorities say fire crews are gearing up for a strong wind event expected on Wednesday.
"With no containment on (the fire) we can expect more growth. It really just depends on the wind and if those winds line up with the canyon and those kinds of things. If those things come together you can expect more rapid growth," said public information officer Richard Hadley.
The Liberty Fire is burning into areas that were affected by the 2007 Jocko Fire, which burned more than 60,000 acres.
The Missoula County Sheriff's Office says they have simplified the evacuation process. Law enforcement will attempt to make personal contact with residents in the case of an evacuation warning and will give residents a yellow informational sheet.
When under an evacuation warning officials say to get your belongings and important documents in order, make accommodations for your pets and let law enforcement know if your home has an elderly or ill resident.
An evacuation order is issued with a red sheet, and that means it's time to go. Best case scenario -- residents will typically have between 24 and 48 hours to leave.
Brenda Bassett, the public information officer for the sheriff's department, says if law enforcement isn't able to get to the neighborhood you can expect to hear a siren.
If the fire moves closer to Morrell Creek and Cottonwood Lakes Road law enforcement may initiate an evacuation warning or order. These are major areas of risk because of the amount of structures and residents.
Both fires are expected to grow in size because of these dry conditions. No rain is in the foreseeable forecast. Officials say they are generating computer models to predict fire movements and see if it could make its way toward the Rattlesnake Wilderness.
As of July 30 the cost of the Liberty Fire was $900,000, and that number is expected to grow as the fire requires more resources.
Authorities say Montanans can expect another month of fire activity because the 2017 fire season started about two weeks early.
"We live here together in Seeley Lake, and we all want to see a sustainable way of life. It takes a village to make it work and coordinate law enforcement and the rules in place to protect the values at risk," said Seeley Lake District Ranger Rachel Fiegley.
The sheriff's office says if you haven't activated your Smart 911 you can do so here.
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Front Page Sports Liberty has three on preseason STATS FCS All-America team
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The day prior to Liberty opening its preseason training camp, three Flames were named to the 2017 STATS FCS Preseason All-America Team.
Long snapper Hunter Winstead was named to the second team, while defensive lineman Juwan Wells and kicker Alex Probert were both third team honorees. The trio of players all received postseason All-America honors in 2016.
Libertys three honorees were among the seven Big South players who were named to the STATS FCS Preseason All-America Team.
Joining Libertys selections were first team honorees Anthony Ellis (DL/Charleston Southern) and Mike Basile (DB/Monmouth), second team selection Solomon Brown (LB/Charleston Southern) and third team member Frank Cirone (OL/Charleston Southern).
Winstead was a 2016 STATS FCS All-America third team honoree. The three-year starter finished the last two seasons with a 100.0 percent snap rating. He also recorded two assisted tackles in 2016, giving him six for his Liberty career.
Winstead, a native of Raleigh, N.C., has worked side by side with punter Trey Turner, helping Turner earn All-Big South honors the last two seasons. Turner finished second in the Big South in punting last year after leading the conference as a freshman and sophomore. Turner ranked No. 37 in the country in punting in 2016, averaging 41.0 yards per punt.
Wells was named to the 2016 HERO Sports FCS Sophomore All-America squad. He had a breakout season for the Flames, leading the team with a career-best 79 tackles. He ranked third in the Big South in total tackles and finished the season fifth in the Big South in tackles for a loss (11.0) and fourth in sacks (5.5).
The 2016 All-Big South first team honoree has recorded 18.5 tackles for a loss and 10.5 sacks during his first two years at Liberty. The native of Dublin, Ga., also finished last season with a team-best nine pass breakups and posted four double-digit tackle efforts.
Probert finished his first year at Liberty as an honorable mention selection to the 2016 HERO Sports FCS Freshman All-America team. He finished last year with 78 points, the most by a freshman in school history.
The native of Andover, Minn., earned All-Big South first team honors after leading the Big South and ranking No. 10 in the country in field goals per game (1.36). Probert was named to the Jerry Rice Award Watch List, which honors the top FCS freshman in the country, and finished in 17thplace in the awards final voting.
Liberty will begin its preseason training campon Tuesday, holding its first team practice of the year from9:20 to 11:45 a.m.The Flames will open the season at Baylor onSept. 2and welcome Morehead State to Williams Stadium for their home opener onSept. 9.
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Charles Giulianis letter lambasting the City Council for refusing to commemorate the sailors who lost their lives in a tragic 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, resulting from misidentification of the ship, is misleading and biased. A Google search for one of his sources, James Bamford: Golan-Heights attack, leads to an article in a newsletter promoted by lunatic-fringe paleolibertarian Lew Rockwell, a newsletterwhich also described black people as animals and espoused the slogan sodomy=death.
Giulianis other source, Ward Boston, as counsel to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry into the Liberty incident signed the Courts 1967 finding that the attack on the Liberty was in fact a mistake. Not until 2003 did Boston recant that finding. His subsequent 2007 news story charging that the U.S. government had covered up the truth about the incident for 40 years supplied no supporting evidence and contained numerous factual errors. It even propagated a myth that the Israelis, rather than trying to rescue the Libertys crew as they did, machine-gunned its life rafts. The elderly Bostons 2007 article relied on the assistance of one Ron Gotcher, who falsely claimed to have worked for the NSA and was reportedly the frontman for a Saudi-financed anti-Israel propaganda coalition.
As journalist James Jackson Kilpatrick wrote in 1967, it would have been utterly irrational for the Israeli Navy knowingly to have launched an attack on the U.S. ship, and the only reasonable explanation was that it was a mistake resulting from the fog of war.
David Lewis Schaefer
Professor of Political Science, Holy Cross College
Worcester
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Investigators in Liberty County issued a warning after they got a report on a man pretending to be a police officer.
Grace White and KHOU.com Staff , KHOU 10:58 PM. CDT July 31, 2017
Investigators in Liberty County issued a warning Monday after they got a report over the weekend of a man pretending to be a police officer. (Photo: KHOU)
LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas - Investigators in Liberty County issued a warning Monday after they got a report over the weekend of a man pretending to be a police officer.
It's the third case reported this year in the same area northeast of Houston. We've seen cases in Roman Forest, Splendora and now Liberty County.
Sirens are a startling sound, and one when most of us hear it, we just pull over.
"It's pretty bad, said Nathan Doyle, a driver who pulled over, too. "He had a pistol on his side, he was in all black.
Doyle never imagined the officer behind the wheel might be fake.
"He never said his name, never said where he was from, all he said was he was a deputy, Doyle said.
A man claiming to be a Liberty County Sheriff's Deputy pulled Doyle over around noon Saturday. The reason was speeding. Well, sort of. Doyle was just 3 miles over the limit on Highway 321 near FM 1008 in Dayton.
"It could be an abduction, it could be a murder, it could be a rape, it could be a robbery, said Captain Ken DeFoor, with the Liberty County Sheriffs Office.
Thank goodness for Doyle, it wasn't. The man posing as an officer let him go and he drove straight to the sheriff's office because something didn't feel quite right.
Doyle described the man as a white male in his 30s, approximately 6 feet tall. It's the third reported case in our area this year, and investigators are looking for a connection.
"Everybody almost now carries a gun and if some man decides this is not a legitimate stop, no telling what could happen, DeFoor said.
Next time, Doyle's not taking chances.
"Don't roll your window all the way down, until you are for sure it's a real cop or if youre not for sure call Liberty County or wherever you're at," Doyle said.
In two out of the three cases, the car is the same, an older white Ford Crown Victoria. Investigators are not ruling out that it could be the same person.
It's legal to have lights on your car, you just can't use them to pull someone over. If you ever have any question about who is stopping you, call 911. The dispatcher should be able to figure out if there's an actual patrol car in your area. As a rule, officers should be wearing a uniform and must be able to present a badge and credentials.
Anyone with information on these cases is urged to contact the Liberty County Sheriffs Office at (936) 336-4500 or the Splendora police at (281)-689-3448.
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The Trump administrations draft religious liberty executive order, leaked in February, was explicit in its directives and sweeping in its implications. The order President Donald Trump signed in Maythe Presidential Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Libertyrather than formally codifying a view of religious liberty or instructing federal agencies on how to interpret the law, tasks the U.S. attorney generalcurrently Jeff Sessionswith advancing his interpretation of religious liberty through administrative guidance.* Sessions has already taken steps to oppose workplace protections against discrimination for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Now he will begin extending protections for those seeking a license to discriminate.
In recent remarks to the Alliance Defending Freedom, classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group in part for opposing LGBT rights and supporting a marriage equality ban, Attorney General Sessions suggested he will soon issue guidance dictating how agencies should interpret the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was passed to protect people from being discriminated against on the basis of their religion. RFRA requires the government to provide a compelling reason to substantially burden religious exercise. Sessions will likely interpret the compelling reason requirement more strictly and the substantial burden requirement much more broadly, which would turn this protection against discrimination into an affirmative right to discriminate.
Closely held corporations can already dodge contraceptive coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by citing religious beliefs thanks to the Supreme Courts Hobby Lobby ruling. If Sessions pushes an inverted interpretation of RFRA, no burden on religious belief would be too minor to exempt an organization from complying with federal law. Corporations and organizations receiving taxpayer dollars will get to pick and choose which federal regulations they will follow. If someone challenges Sessions interpretation and the U.S. Supreme Court affirms Sessions view, this executive order will have changed the law for a lifetime.
Section 4 of the executive order reads: to guide all agencies in complying with relevant Federal law, the Attorney General shall, as appropriate, issue guidance interpreting religious liberty protections in Federal law. Sessions focus on RFRA and protecting interests in religious freedom represents a continuation of a long-term push to pervert this legislation.
RFRA has been used as the foundation for some of the most aggressive efforts to expand the use of religious liberty to justify discrimination. Companies and organizations have used RFRA as a justification for everything from refusing to comply with a federal mandate to provide birth control to engaging in religious discrimination in hiring practices for taxpayer-funded jobs. In one instance, a district court even found that RFRA gave employers the right to discriminate against transgender employees.
Allowing Sessions to interpret the meaning of religious liberty ensures that the changes President Trump sought to make through the draft order will take place with less transparency and no accountability. Guidance can be issued quietly, without the same period of public notice and comment that regulations receive. And guidance alone can affect significant policy changes. In one remarkable instance, the Obama administration used guidance to aid school districts in ensuring transgender people had equal access to programs and facilities in educational environments. The Trump administration could not only erase guidance that helped implement equality but wreak havoc by issuing new guidance that allows people to discriminate on the basis of religion.
Because guidance can be issued across a wide range of policy areas and is nearly immune from public input, the attorney general will be able to fundamentally alter the concept of religious liberty by enacting far-reaching standards for who qualifies for religiousor moralexemptions to federal laws and regulations.
When it comes to agency-specific instructions, Sessions may begin at home, with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). That agency enforces statutes such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which could be stripped of meaning if DOJ guidance promoted an expanded interpretation of religious liberty.For example, religious entities are currently subject to the ADAs prohibition on discrimination in employment but exempt from other parts of the ADA. The guidance couldexpand what counts as a religious organizationmeaning that more organizations, such as church-affiliatedorganizations or evenbusinesses, could enjoy these exemptions.
Then theres the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), created to implement the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). That office administers 25 grant programs across the United States, making almost half a billion dollars in grants annually. VAWA now prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, but religious exemptions could allow OVW grantees to deny victims of domestic violence services or admission to a shelter on either basis.
Beyond damage Sessions could do to regulations and grants overseen by the DOJ, he could instruct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to grant far-reaching religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Section 1557, interpreted by a 2016 rule to bar discrimination against LGBT people in health care. These exemptions would return health care access for LGBT people back to the time before the ACA, when 10 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and 25 percent of transgender people reported being refused medical care outright. Beyond outright refusal, many, such as Jakob Tiarnan Rumble, face other forms of discrimination. Rumble successfully sued under Section 1557 after being misgendered by hospital staff, forced to wait for hours, and having a doctor inappropriately handle his genitals until he was in pain. Even as of 2016, nearly 20 percent of LGBT people who reported facing discrimination in the last year said that they subsequently avoided going to the doctor. Religious exemptions would also put the well-being of LGBT runaway and homeless youth at risk. Prior to the creation of an LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination policy at the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), an unaccompanied immigrant child housed at a shelter funded by ORR was expelled from school and prevented from attending programming at the shelter after he came out as gay.
The DOJ may also issue guidance with other agencies regarding the implementation of statutes for which the agencies have joint responsibility, as is the case with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA) as it pertains to religious liberty. Under the Obama administration, the DOJ issued guidance clarifying how the FHA applies and to whom it applies to increase protections. But guidance could also be used to essentially neutralize current HUD regulations and permit federally funded shelters to refuse service to LGBT people.
Sessions will be able to determine not only the policies that affect outward-directed agency activities but agencies internal operations as well, from how departments set priorities to how federal employees are treated. To the latter point, Sessions could issue guidance resurrecting the language of the draft religious liberty executive order leaked in February, which suggested that federal employers should proactively protect employees acting on religious belief in the workplace. Presumably, such guidance could protect behavior such as refusing to use correct pronouns or proselytizing on anti-LGBT topics, regardless of the effects on co-workers and recipients of government services.
Sessions guidance could change peoples rights at the local levelboth in federal-local interactions and in setting policy for federal grantees operating at the local level. Federal grantees from health clinics to adoption agencies could be specifically licensed to discriminate. A woman seeking care after an assault, for example, could be denied emergency contraception and a same-sex couple could be rejected as foster parents. Although some people could travel or move to obtain services in some situations, many would simply lose access to critical services in addition to suffering dignitary harm.
Guidance issued by the attorney general could also make it possible to discriminate even in the most urgent circumstances. Following reports of discrimination after Hurricane Katrina, the DOJ, along with the Department of Homeland Security, HUD, HHS, and the Department of Transportation, issued guidance to eliminate biased practices in health care. Conversely, guidance could be used to effectively license discrimination on the basis of religious belief when it comes to the provision of services.
Depending on how Sessions interprets RFRA and what instructions he gives agencies about exemptions from following the law based on religious belief, he could expand the statutes application to corporations and businesses even further. Exempting private businesses and organizations that assert religious affiliations, as well as federal grantees, from complying with federal laws that impose costs, as with the leaked rule rolling back the contraceptive mandate, would give these organizations and businesses an unfair competitive advantage as well as resulting in thousands of people losing critical health coverageto name a few negative outcomes.
Far from an improvement over the February draft religious liberty executive order, the executive order that President Trump signed in May has given the administration cover for its attack on civil rights. Sessions can erode individual rights perhaps even more effectively than the president could have with a sweeping pronouncement by issuing targeted formal instructions to agencies.
Agency by agency, program by program, Sessions can erode fundamental protections for women and LGBT people, among others, and instate new religious exemptions allowing billions of taxpayer dollars to be used to discriminate. Moreover, Sessions has the power to issue guidance reaching well beyond federal agencies to any beneficiaries of federal funding and to the state and local levels.
Delegating guidance responsibility to Sessions is also a clever legal maneuver. Sessions work will be far harder to challenge and more taxing to undo, as each piece of guidance must either be challenged in court or be rescinded by a subsequent administration. In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of individuals, from single women to children awaiting adoption, will be under constant threat of losing their rights to live and work free of discrimination.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. Sharita Gruberg is the associate director of the LGBT Research and Communications Projectat the Center.
* Correction, July 31, 2017: This column has been updated to reflect the fact that the Promoting Religious Liberty and Free Speech executive order was signed in May.
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The weather is the most important weapon in fighting fires. And according to the National Weather Service, firefighters in western Montana might have it on their side this week as temperatures cool and a high-pressure system stays over Seattle.
Its going to be a little cooler, near normal at 88 or 89 degrees, Jeff Kitsmiller, an NWS meteorologist said Sunday.
Kitsmiller said easterly winds are forecast on Wednesday, something that all firefighters would know about as it may help or hurt, depending on the fire. Earlier forecasts had called for near-record temperatures later this week.
Liberty fire: The column of smoke visible to the north of Missoula was coming from the South Fork Jocko Primitive Area where the Liberty fire tripled in size Sunday afternoon.
The fire had been listed at 600 acres Sunday morning, but is now more than 2,000 acres, according to Confederated Salish and Kootenai Division of Fire public information officer Devlin LaFrombois.
A briefing not a public meeting has been set for Monday at 10 a.m. at the Arlee Community Center.
"Around 1 o'clock (Sunday) the wind blew it over one of the roads we were using for control line," LaFrombois said. "It blew up and went up the other side of a draw."
All crews battling the blaze had to be pulled off the lines, he said.
The fire has moved beyond the Flathead Reservation onto Lolo National Forest land. Public Information Officer Rob McDonald said the state has been notified.
LaFrombois said a Type I team currently on stand-by in Missoula will join the effort on Monday.
"It had the potential all along (to grow), it was just a matter of time," LaFrombois said. "It's rough and steep country to put people on the ground."
The Missoula County Sheriff's office has notified170 residences in the Placid Lake area of an evacuation warning.
"This is for North & South Placid Lake Roads, Shining Shirt Road and Beaver Creek Road. This is the first step in which MCSO deputies attempt to make in-person contact with affected population," the Sheriff's office Facebook page reported. "Should there be an order, deputies will make every effort to recontact residents in the evacuation area."
Lolo Peak fire: A weather inversion will likely cause smoke to settle in Florence and Lolo from Sunday evening through Monday morning according to the Incident Information System. The smoke will be categorized as unhealthy, especially for the elderly, the very young, and those with breathing ailments.
Road closures are still in effect, and fire traffic has shifted to Elk Meadow Road.
Currently, the fire team is focusing on a ridge west of Lolo Creeks south fork, dropping fire retardant and doing other work in an attempt to slow its progress.
According to Leigh Golden, the fire is still in the backcountry three or four air miles from any structure.
Sunrise and Burdette fires: While visibility is hampering any air operations, the Sunrise and Burdette Fires are burning in the Tarkio area and fire fighters are fighting back.
Winds were expected to increase Sunday afternoon and cause the fires to spread to the southeast. The Incident Information System warns the public should be aware that fire activity is expected to increase with these winds as well as advising motorists not to stop along I-90 as smoke could be very heavy.
Evacuations are still in effect in the area, and the fires continued path through sub-alpine firs is causing embers to be blown nearly a half-mile in front of the fire, according to public information officer Phil Sneed, who advises everyone in western Montana to take extreme caution when dealing with any fire in the outdoors.
Sapphire Complex: The Sapphire Complex continues to burn. At over 10,000 acres, the fires are growing, but not in an unexpected fashion, according to public information officer Erin OConnor.
A new team has taken over the Complex as the 14-day cycle for the previous Team ran out. And other than some unburned fuel lighting up in the Goat Creek and Sliderock fires, crews are still fighting and cutting lines.
Rice Ridge fire: The Rice Ridge fire near Seeley Lake is up to nearly 100 firefighters as the fire begins to creep out of the retardant lines placed around it.
Crews are currently placing containment lines where possible, but the fire is currently not threatening any communities or homes. Fire crews are trying to keep the fire from moving to the south and west which is populated, and heavy equipment has been moved to the area to help with the effort.
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Liberty will officially begin preparation for the 2017 seasonon Tuesdaywhen football holds its first preseason training camp practice, starting at9:20 a.m.
Libertys football players are returning to campuson Mondayand sixth-year head coach Turner Gill will hold his first team meeting of the season later that night inside the Williams Football Operations Center.
In keeping with the NCAAs acclimation period policies, the Flames will hold two practice sessions in just helmets (Aug. 1-2) and two more practices in half pads (Aug. 3-4). Liberty will have its first practice of the year in full pads onAug. 5.
All Liberty University football practice sessions are closed to the general public and the media, unless otherwise indicated by the Athletics Communications office.
Liberty will have an open practice before the universitys incoming freshman class onAug. 25, as part of the schools Presidents Kickoff Event.
Liberty Athletics will hosts its annual Flames Football Fan Fest onAug. 26, which will include a player autograph session following the7 p.m.scrimmage. The event is free of charge and open to the general public.
Libertys football practice viewing policy includes all practices held in Williams Stadium, the practice field adjacent to the Williams Football Operations Center and those held inside the new Indoor Football Practice Facility.
Video and still photography will be allowed only during the first 15 minutes of each of Libertys daily workout sessions. No photography of any kind will be allowed following the stretching period of the teams daily practices.
Media outlets planning on attending any training camp practices should contact the Athletics Communications office at least 24 hours in advance with interview requests and which practices they plan to attend.
Gill, his assistant coaches and players will be available after the following August training camp workouts:Aug. 1, 4, 8, 11, 15, 18, 22 and 24.
Liberty will resume its normal weekly media availability starting the week ofAug. 27leading up to the Flames opener at Baylor onSept. 2. Gill will hold his first weekly press conference of the season onAug. 29 at 12:30 p.m., in the Team Room of the Football Operations Center.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | A vision amid the rubble in East Liberty Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Many Pittsburghers know that Penn Plaza, the apartment complex on the corner of Penn and Negley, is being demolished. It was originally public housing and later private apartments with low rents. The gentrification of East Liberty is a bittersweet ... |
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LIBERTY An unidentified suspect in an armed robbery overnight in Liberty is being sought by police.
At approximately 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Liberty Police responded to an armed robbery that occurred at the Circle K/Kangaroo convenience store, which is located at 127 E. Swannanoa Ave. in Liberty.
According to a post on the Liberty Police Departments Facebook page, the suspect was described as a black male, wearing a black hoodie and gray sweatpants. The suspect was also wearing white socks on his left hand, with his right hand uncovered.
According to the post, Thankfully, no one was hurt, but the suspect did get away for now. We know these photos are not clear enough for an identification, but if anyone saw a person dressed like this around town last night, contact us! Any information helps.
No other information was available from the police department.
If you can identify this person, or have any information about this incident, please call the Liberty Police Department at 336-622-2323 or 911 outside of business hours.
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Butler Countys two largest townships are looking into ways they can make their commercial areas more pedestrian friendly.
Trustees from Liberty and West Chester townships met recently to talk about a walkability study Liberty Twp. commissioned to see the feasibility of building pedestrian bridges and other amenities so people can walk from places like mega mixed use Liberty Center to Voice of America MetroPark.
Liberty Twp. trustees are hoping their neighbors will want to partner with them on parts of the plan.
Liberty Twp. Trustee Tom Farrell says these modes of transportation are not an amenity, but a necessity to remain competitive.
People just dont want to have to get in their cars to go anywhere and do anything, Farrell said. We have to recognize this trend and move forward.
He told the group in order to stay competitive in a market that caters to Millennials they need to provide ways for residents and employees to get around on foot.
The fact is Millennials and Baby Boomers alike want these walkable communities and they are moving toward it, Farrell said. If we dont create that were going to lose residents, employers, employees. But because of our uniqueness I think we have an opportunity to be the poster child for this walkable community because we have assets that most communities dont have.
West Chester Trustee George Langs initial reaction was not favorable.
I dont agree with the assertion this is a necessity for us for the future, Lang said. I think it would be a nice amenity Im very leery of it as a project of this enormity, maybe if you wanted to pick one little spot and experiment with it and see what happens. I think our taxpayers and our businesses would object to this.
The two most expensive options are to construct a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 75 from Liberty Center to Cox Road and another bridge from Yankee Road to Liberty Center, over Ohio 129. Those two projects would cost more than $3 million each, according to the study.
Most of the plan involves new pathways and connecting broken sidewalks and generally sprucing up several areas of the township. The price tags on most of those are under $100,000.
Liberty Twp. Trustee Board President Christine Matacic said the question now is should they take this to the next level to see if the private businesses in both townships are willing to partner on funding it.
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Lionsgate and Liberty Global are partnering to produce supernatural spy thriller, The Rook, which will air on Starz in the U.S., and across Liberty Globals international platforms. Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer and The Night Managers Stephen Garrett are exec producing. This is Starzs first series order from Lionsgate TV since Lionsgate acquired the pay cable network last year. Starz president and CEO Chris Albrecht made the announcement at TCA today.
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The London-set series centers on a young woman pursued by shadowy paranormal adversaries while grappling with extraordinary abilities of her own. After waking in a park with total amnesia and surrounded by dead bodies, all wearing latex gloves she must fight to uncover her past, and resume her position at the head of Britains most secret (supernatural) service before the traitors who stole her memory can finish what they started.
Based on the novel by Daniel OMalley, its adapted and co-produced by playwrights and screenwriters Sam Holcroft (Rules for Living) and Al Muriel (Precious & Rich).
The Rook was originally set up at Hulu, but the new configuration appears to be a more strategic fit for the partners. Until the Lionsgate-Starz acquisition at the end of last year,Starz was controlled by Liberty Medias John Malone, whos also a Lionsgate investor and sits on its board.
The Rook will begin broadcast next year via Starz in the U.S. and on Libertys platforms in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Lionsgate is handling worldwide distribution.
Meyer is currently producing fantasy feature Down A Dark Hall under her Fickle Fish banner for Lionsgate. Producing partner Meghan Hibbett is also an exec producer on The Rook.
Garrett is coming off of last years Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning spy mini, The Night Manager. Hell act as showrunning exec producer on The Rook via his Character 7 label.
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Not even Mother Nature could slow the top runners in the world Friday night in Pittsburgh at the sixth annual GNC Live Well Liberty Mile.
The race was organized by Pittsburgh Three Rivers Marathon, Inc. (P3R), a nonprofit organization that also manages the Pittsburgh Marathon.
The race, held in the Cultural District, featured more than 1,000 participants, with the oldest being 75 years old and the youngest at 3.
The event featured five races, highlighted by the American Development Pro Men and Women races.
The 2016 champions were present to defend their titles, but only Ben Blankenship on the men's side was able to do so.
Blankenship, a 2016 Olympian, was the first to cross the finish line in 4 minutes, 4.60 seconds, beating Kyle Merber (4:05.39) by less than a second.
I love competing and love competing in the road mile, Blankenship said. The aspect of being shoulder-to-shoulder says how competitive it is and that you are running against the man right next to you. These are some of the most fun races I do all year.
Blankenship had the advantage of knowing the course and how to pace himself as the defending champion.
I had an understanding of what to do on this course, Blankenship said. Road miles can always be deceiving. You have to be so aware to guys to your left and right. The final stretch can be deceiving with how close or far you are to the finish line.
For the women, two-time national champion Emily Lipari from Villanova picked up her first road mile win in Pittsburgh with a time of 4:34.77. Lipari improved on her finishes the last three years in this race after placing fourth in 2015 and second last year.
It feels really exciting, Lipari said. This race has always been good for me, and I love this crowd. I know so many people who are from Pittsburgh that come out to cheer me on. It has always been special for me, and I am excited about the progress I have been making.
Lipari also is just the third female winner in the event's history, joining Heather Kampf and Gabriele Grunewald. Kampf was the two-time defending champion and also won the event in 2012 and '13.
For their first-place finishes, Blankenship and Lipari earned a prize of $5,000 from GNC. In all, GNC awarded $30,000 in prize money to the top five finishers in each race.
The event wasn't held for just the professionals. The locals of Pittsburgh also had an opportunity to showcase their talents in the mile run, with three separate waves. The first wave included, One For Fun presented by Fleet Feet Sports Pittsburgh, Pup Trot presented by Humane Animal Rescue, and Kids of STEEL. Following that was the Masters wave presented by UPMC Health Plan and the Unstoppable wave presented by Fleet Feet Sports Pittsburgh.
Drew Karpen is a freelance writer.
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Joe Kassanavoid had come to the conclusion his football career was likely over.
Kassanavoid returned to the Salina Liberty early last season to try and help the teams struggling offense. The Liberty was 0-3 when he joined the squad, but nothing much changed.
For me being on the team, nothing seemed to get any better, said Kassanavoid, who played wide receiver. I thought maybe footballs over for me, its not getting any better. I felt like if I stayed at home and hung out with my kids Id have just as much fun.
So Kassanavoid departed and went back home to Liberty, Mo. The Liberty team never got untracked, finishing the season with a 1-11 record after going 2-10 in their first season in 2016, during which Kassanavoid also played.
Kassanavoid, though, is back again for the 2018 season. The team announced his signing along with defensive/offensive lineman Jamar Seard during the Salina Liberty Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday at Great Life Golf & Fitness.
Kassanavoids change of heart came after a meeting with new Salina coach Heron ONeal.
He actually drove from Salina to Kansas City to buy me a steak dinner and talk about the possibilities of me coming back, Kassanavoid said. He wants me on the team. For him doing that said a lot to me and meant a lot to me. I made up my right there Salina really wants me back.
Ricky (chief operating officer Bertz) is doing a great job and getting everybody pumped up and ready for the new season. Im blessed that they want me to play for them.
Playing for ONeal was a big part of his decision.
I knew him through (Liberty rival) Dodge City, Kassanavoind said. Hes one of the best coaches in the league. ... He knows the indoor game more than most of the head coaches out there.
Kassanavoid, who played at Kansas State during the 2008 and 2009 seasons, is the football equivalent of utility player in baseball. At 6-foot-6, 225 pounds hes listed as a wide receiver, but also has played quarterback, linebacker and defensive end during his indoor career, which includesthree seasons with the Wichita Wild/Wichita Force, from 2010-13.
Kassanavoid will play wide out for the Liberty.
My position's mainly a field-position receiver," he said. "Catch the ball five yards, a hitch route, get another five yards, fight for more yardage, get a first down, be a big goal line target for the quarterback. Being a big target and athletic body and someone who can play multiple positions is definitely somebody you want on your arena football team.
ONeal plans to take advantage of Kassanavoids size.
Hes a matchup nightmare, he said. His size and physical play are going to be used in many different ways. He will be utilized and utilized a lot.
The 6-3, 310 pound Seard was a second team all-Champions Indoor Football selection while playing for Dodge City this past season. He started 13 games and had 23 tackles, seven for loss, and three sacks while playing nose guard. He also played 13 games in the offensive line.
In my opinion Seard is the best nose guard in the league, said ONeal, who was Dodge Citys defensive coordinator in 2017. Hes the best two-way lineman I have ever coached in my 13 years of indoor football.
Bertz has been busy revamping the Liberty since his hiring in mid-April. He hired ONeal away from Dodge City, which folded earlier this month, and has added six new players for 2018.
I know it sounds very cliche-ish for people, but the separations in the preparation and there will be no one more prepared for the 2018 season than the Salina Liberty, Bertz said. What were doing from a business standpoint, from a football standpoint and even things yet to come all demonstrate that were serious about this and were committed to that.
Bertz said theres still much to do.
While other organizations might be taking a break, we have a lot of ground to catch up on what was done previously and were putting the work to not only catch up, but hopefully go past them on that, he said. We have high aspirations for the 2018 season and were putting in the work every single day to make sure we meet those goals.
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Bertz also announced a community initiative that will involve youth and the Salina police and fire departments.
The Golden Football program will reward children who display outstanding leadership and citizenship. Theyll receive youth-sized golden footballs from police and fire department officials that can be redeemed at the Liberty offices in exchange for a free pass to a 2018 game.
The programs sponsored by First Bank Kansas.
We recognized this would be a great opportunity for our department to continue to integrate ourselves into the community in a very exciting and rewarding way, police chief Brad Nelson said in a news release.
The Liberty also will have Hometown Heros Night during a 2018 home game. Liberty players will wear limited edition jerseys that will be auctioned off after the game with proceeds going to the police and fire departments.
This Golden Football program we have gives us a chance to recognize some people who are making a difference out there in the community off the football field, Bertz said. Were recognizing them off the football field and were going to give them some accolades on the football field during a game in 2018.
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LIBERTY If you cant beat em, join em. Thats what the father-son soap box derby racing team of Joe and Morgan Van Keuren thought about Brianna Roth and her twin sister, Brooke. Morgan, 16, couldn't quite beat the 15-year-old sisters in the Town of Libertys annual Memorial Day soap box derby races.
Together, theyre champions. On July 22, Brianna used Morgans old car to win the super stock car title at the 80th FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby World Championship in Ohio.
It taught me a lot about racing, sportsmanship, teamwork, always shaking your competitors hands, always trying your best. Even the one year I finished close to last (in Liberty race), I still had a good attitude, said Brianna, who hopes to become a physical therapist.
Morgan, who lives in Liberty, was Briannas crew chief. The families worked together in the twins White Sulphur Springs basement, to shave time off the derby racer tightening bolts, aligning the car, adjusting its wheels and cables.
We were shocked when Brianna won, said Joe Van Keuren, who added how proud he was of Morgan and Brianna for their teamwork and sportsmanship. It was just surreal seeing Morgan jump into the arms ofBrianna's stepfather after the race.
Following regional wins, 80 racers qualified for the super stock car division world championship. When Brianna beat them, the All-American Soap Box Derby Association retired her car and presented a Super Bowl-like ring, a giant trophy and a $3,000 college scholarship.
So, was Brianna scared hurtling down a hill in a tiny racing car at 30 mph?
No, I was thinking of a new cell phone, said Brianna, whose stepfather, Mike, likely didnt think hed be buying her the new iPhone, with an unlimited data plan, he promised if she won.
Brianna, Morgan, and Brooke, who attend Liberty High School, werent the only ones united by racing.
Soapbox derby racing has helped unify Liberty, while becoming a cottage industry, since CarolVanDenberg,of Hillside Greenhouses & Flower Shop, started a local race in 2011.
Briannas mother, Melissa, a math teacher at Liberty Middle School, ended up dating and marrying the schools tech teacher, Mike Diehl, after he recruited her daughters to race.
Local parents and children have formed racing teams, including the Barn Buddies Racing Group. They've pooled resources and expertise on cars that can cost $1,000 each for assembly kits, paint jobs and custom-made metal weights.
The local school bus firm, painters, iron works, printers, t-shirt makers, a collision shop and other companies have pitched in to keep the kids cars safe, fast and spiffy.
And the Town of Liberty has facilitated the local derby and promoted Briannas win.
Its unbelievable Brianna won, VanDenberg said. Absolutely nobody knows where Liberty, N.Y. is Now, we have a world champion. Who wouldve thunk it?
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The modest white house with an American flag-studded garden and a sign warning visitors that This Home is Protected by a U.S. Veteran might not have been the most obvious place for an awards ceremony, but it fit the occasion: retired Navy Chief Petty Officer Leonard Koebbes recognition of two Liberty Twp. businessmen whose help enabled him to move into the home they were standing in.
I just wanted to pay life forward like they did for me, Koebbe said. I wanted to let Liberty Twp. know theres good businessmen in the area. I wanted to thank them.
Koebbe served in the military for 24 years, including fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so when he decided to buy a house in the area he wanted to make the transition easy, because I dont deal with stress very well.
He asked his brother Steve Koebbe, who owns Koebbe Auto Tech in Liberty Twp., to recommend an honest realtor, and was referred to Huff Realty Senior Sales Vice President Scot Avery.
According to Koebbe, Scots dedication to me was unfailing, and he did a lot of research and backend work to make the search process as easy as possible.
With Averys help, Koebbe found a house in Liberty Twp. that had recently been remodeled but still fell within Koebbes price range, making it seem, according to Avery, too good to be true.
After Koebbe bought the house, he discovered some problems with the houses heating and cooling system, and went back to Avery for help. Avery referred him to another businessman in his network, Tri-State Heating and Cooling President Keith Adams.
Adams said that he likes to hire veterans, including the technician who visited Koebbes new home, and knows about some of the struggles that they can be faced with throughout their life, so I always try to make sure that they I am very aware of things that are going on with the veterans.
After assessing the house, Koebbe said, Adams repaired the air conditioning at minimum to no cost.
Koebbe doesnt think that he would have had the rapport or the trust that I had working with these guys with other professionals. Thanks to the honesty and integrity he recognized them for, Koebbe and his black lab are now happily settled into their new home.
Koebbe presented each of the men recently with plaques, thanking them for Supporting & Honoring Veterans, complete with a picture of a bald eagle in front of an American flag.
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Starz has given a series order to the drama thriller The Rook from Twilight saga author Stephenie Meyer, Lionsgate, and Liberty Global.
The series marks Liberty Globals move into original drama in partnership with Lionsgate. The supernatural spy thriller will be executive produced by Meyer and Stephen Garrett (The Night Manager).
Playwrights and screenwriters Sam Holcroft (Rules for Living) and Al Muriel (Precious & Rich) have adapted the 2012 novel by Daniel OMalley for TV. Garrett will serve as showrunner under his Character 7 banner. The project was previously set up at Hulu.
Liberty Global, the international cable arm of John Malones empire, has been looking to expand its original production activity. It owns a small stake in Lionsgate and its CEO, Mike Fries, sits on the studios board of directors. Malone was also the major shareholder in Starz, which Lionsgate acquired last year.
Based on the novel by Daniel OMalley, Rook will follow a young woman who wakes up in a London park suffering amnesia and surrounded by bodies, all wearing latex gloves. As she attempts to uncover her past and her role as head of Britains supernatural secret service, she discovers she has peculiar abilities, all while being pursued by paranormal adversaries.
Starz boss Chris Albrecht announced the series Friday at its presentation at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills.
We are thrilled to add the talents of Stephen Garrett and Stephenie Meyer to our creative family and forge our partnership with the Lionsgate Television Group and Liberty Global, he said. The Rook is instantly addictive from the very first scene and introduces what we believe will be one of the most fascinating and thrilling female protagonists on television.
Liberty Global signaled its intention to move into original drama with four projects coming through All3Media, the U.K. production group it half-owns. The Rook is the first and will launch internationally at the same time as in the U.S.
Liberty Global chief programming officer Bruce Mann said The Rook was an important step in its scripted strategy.
We want shows that are distinctive and have a European sensibility, he told Variety. Its a shiny drama from a U.S. studio with a universal story, based in the U.K. with a strong female lead. We think it will travel really well.
Liberty Global will carry the show in the countries where it has cable platforms. Lionsgate will distribute the show in the rest of the world.Liberty Global is the largest international cable group, with services including Virgin Media in the U.K., Unitymedia in Germany, and UPC in the Netherlands. These will carry The Rook as an on-demand offering.
The Rook is a major premium property driven by an amazing creative team, and its not only a terrific addition to the Starz platform but the perfect series to launch a content alliance with our friends at Liberty Global, said Lionsgate Television Group chairman Kevin Beggs and Jim Packer, Lionsgates president of Worldwide Television & Digital Distribution.
(Pictured: Stephenie Meyer)
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