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UPDATE: Authorities say charges pending against Omaha driver as pedestrian death investigation continues - WOWT

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Douglas County Attorney’s office on Monday was working to determine what charges to file against a man arrested after a woman was hit by a car Saturday in the Blackstone neighborhood.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine told 6 News that 30-year-old William D. Wright will eventually be charged with something — at the very least DUI — but there’s more investigation to be done. Kleine said OPD is trying to determine whether he was driving erratically or if there were other issues in the minutes before the crash.

For the time being, the charges the city filed against Wright have been dismissed, according to Douglas County Court documents signed Monday by Omaha City Attorney Matt Kuhse. Wright was still in jail as of Monday afternoon, according to court records, but authorities said he would be released pending official charges.

Kaitlyn A. Vanessen, 20, died after she was hit by a Mazda CX-5 around 2 a.m. Saturday near 38th and Farnam streets, Omaha Police reported over the weekend.

OPD said in a report issued later Saturday morning that they arrested the driver with a blood-alcohol content of 0.182, more than double the legal limit, and booked him on charges of motor vehicle homicide.

According to investigators, there’s video of the incident showing the driver had a green light and that the pedestrian walked into the street. 6 News was told the driver then stopped to render aid.

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Pending Regulatory Approval, Sportsbook At Horseshoe Casino Could Open Friday - CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than six months after sports betting became legal in Maryland, the first bets are expected to be made later this week.

This time tomorrow, invited gamblers will be placing bets at the Caesars Sportsbook at Horseshoe Baltimore as part of a controlled demonstration for the gaming officials.

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It’s the last hurdle before taking bets from the public as soon as Friday.

“We expect some very long lines,” said Horseshoe Casino Baltimore general manager Randy Conroy.

Finishing touches are underway Monday inside the ground floor of the casino.

“We’ll have every game visible,” said Conroy

Conroy showed us where bets will be made later this week.

“We’re 10 feet to go at the end of a marathon here,” he said.

In addition to the ticket window, there will also be 14 kiosks for people to place bets throughout the casino.

Maryland joins 28 states and D.C. to legalize sports betting. Voters approved it during the 2020 election and a bill was signed into law back in May.

More than 200 days later, only one final regulatory hurdle stands in the way of betting, which is expected to start Friday.

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“That’s kind of our final exam with the Maryland Lottery,” said Conroy.

The state’s application review commission voted last month to license sports wagering at five Maryland casinos.

Live! Casino showed us its sportsbook space in April.

For some, it’s better late than never.

“Lord, have mercy. Thank you, Jesus,” said Edward Simmons. “I get some money! Because I’m tired of going to Dover, Delaware.”

“We’re actually 12 weeks behind in the NFL season,” said Russell McPherson. “Look at the money lost.”

The commission has not yet opened the application process for mobile gaming licenses. Officials say it typically accounts for about 90 percent of total betting revenue.

“We would expect the same to occur in Maryland. I don’t see a reason why it would be different,” said co-chair of Taft’s Gaming Industry Group.

The “soft opening” under the watchful eye of gaming officials is tomorrow and Thursday.

They’re taking real bets and proceeds are going to Paul’s {lace, a local charity.

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If all goes well, they’re planning a ribbon-cutting and live betting on Friday. Gov. Larry Hogan, Mayor Brandon Scott, former Ravens Torrey Smith and Adalius Thomas, and Baltimore native and former NBA star Muggsy Bogues are scheduled to attend.

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City, county to consider hybrid public meetings pending Covid guidelines - Missoula Current

Dennis Bowman, deputy public works director, updates the Missoula City Council Monday on progress made in replacing the water system’s aging infrastructure during a pre-pandemic meeting. (Missoula Current file photo)

Pending feedback from epidemiologists, the city and county of Missoula could return meetings to a virtual format, though spatial constraints could bring new challenges as Municipal Court moves into City Council chambers on a temporary basis.

Chris Lounsbury, the county’s CAO, said the City-County Health Department is preparing guidelines for local government on public meetings in the wake of the latest Covid-19 spike. The results should be available this week.

“We asked (the health officer) for the epidemiology team, which was working on some guidance for the university system, to also look at guidance for local government like they provided the schools,” said Lounsbury. “Especially given there will be community variants with spikes beyond Delta.”

The City of Missoula continued in-person public meets into the spring of 2020 while testing its virtual system, which it did for the first time that April. Shortly after, the city ended in-person meetings and has relied upon a virtual format ever since.

Missoula Mayor John Engen said guidance from the epidemiology team could be considered in the months to come as the city considers returning to a hybrid format, where meetings would be held both in-person and virtually.

But that will depend on the virus and whether it moves from one spike to the next.

“We have the technology in place to do hybrid in council chambers, and I’m inclined to get back in person to for a period that folks want to,” said Engan. “Virtual has allowed more people to participate. We don’t want to create a situation where that will stop. You’re staving drive time, and there’s a lot to be said for those meetings being virtual.”

City Council and other volunteer boards meet at night, and council chambers would be available for Monday night City Council meetings. But council committees meet during the day, and council chambers will be occupied during that time by Municipal Court.

A third courtroom will be constructed in City Hall, but that will take time.

“We’ll be able to host Monday night City Council meetings in person, but we still have problems related to committees,” said city CAO Dale Bickell. “With all the problems everyone’s heard related to construction, we’ve had the same thing. We went out to bid and didn’t get any bids.”

The county also ended public meetings last year but returned to a hybrid system earlier this year. After the second Covid spike, however, it went back to a virtual format and remains there now.

Like the city, the county is waiting for health department guidance.

“I hope after a window of time for people to get boosted and kids to get vaccinated, we’d slip into some semi-permanence of hybrid meetings,” said Commissioner Josh Slotnick.

The vaccination rate in Missoula County is at roughly 68%.

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Singapore No Longer Allows Bitget to Issue Crypto Tokens Pending a License - Bloomberg

Singapore may have set its sights on becoming the world’s cryptocurrency capital. But its “buyer beware” approach to trading in risky digital assets doesn’t mean anything goes. A coin that works as a pension plan for BTS, the world’s most-famous K-pop group, is perhaps beyond the pale.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore, which had earlier allowed Bitget, a popular digital exchange, to issue tokens to Singapore investors pending a full license, suspended that privilege in July, the Financial Times reported Sunday. The exchange has attracted controversy by promoting Army Coin, whose goal is to “take care of BTS members for life.” Hybe Co., the band’s publicly traded management company, wasn’t amused by the unsolicited offer and has threatened legal action, according to the FT.

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Four suits now pending against Lipseys over Tesla crash into Maroon Creek - The Aspen Times

Two more negligence lawsuits have been filed against members of a former Aspen family over a Tesla crash involving five high school students in November 2018, increasing the total number of civil complaints over the matter to four.

Separate suits introduced Nov. 4 and Nov. 5 in Pitkin County District Court accuse negligence against driver Joseph Lipsey IV over the crash that resulted in two of the Tesla’s five occupants being seriously injured. The suit also named his parents, Joseph Lipsey III and Shira Lipsey, as defendants, as well as the family company American Emergency Response, a water and ice supply business that also held title to the Tesla.

One of the most recent suits, filed by Colorado Springs firm Sears & Associates on behalf of one of the passengers who was hospitalized, accused the parents of operating a permissive household where drugs and alcohol were readily available for consumption to adults and teens. That loose environment was the precursor of things to come, the suit said.

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“This is a case about reckless parenting, a fast Tesla, and a teenage son who has been taught by his parents to believe that extreme wealth inoculates its owners to the consequences of bad behavior,” the suit said.

The suit claims the younger Lipsey was permitted to drive where he wanted to, when he wanted to, “notwithstanding his lack of driver’s training or valid driver’s license.”

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“This history of recklessly permissive conduct at the Lipsey’s Aspen residence and the negligent entrustment of the Tesla to Joseph by his parents led to the catastrophic night of November 7, 2018, when Joseph flipped the Tesla into Maroon Creek with a car full of his teenage classmates,” said the suit, which also named one of the passengers as a defendant.

Lipsey IV was not originally behind the wheel the night the Tesla crashed, according to the suit. Rather it was the plaintiff, the suit said, who had test-driven the vehicle to entrance gate of the Maroon Bells, then pulled over on the side of the road.

At that point, the 17-year-old driver was coerced by one of the passengers and Lipsey IV to let Lipsey IV take the wheel. That’s what he did, and to the protest of the other passengers, was topping speeds of 90 mph before losing control of the Tesla between the road’s mile markers 2 and 3, where it began a broadside slide of 37 feet on the roadway and “continued to slide another 27.8 feet off the road until it became airborne for another 41 feet and struck a tree mid-air with its front end,” the suit said, noting the Tesla then went 172 feet down an embankment into Maroon Creek, where it landed right-side up and partially submerged.

Tracks from a Tesla that missed a turn on Maroon Creek Road and flew down an embankment into the Maroon Creek in November 2018. Five teens were in the car at the time, and four lawsuits now have been filed related to the crash.
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While creek water rose slowly in the Tesla and others managed to escape, the unconscious plaintiff/passenger was trapped inside the vehicle for nearly 50 minutes before authorities could extricate the victim, the suit said.

That suit also named the passenger who allegedly, with Lipsey IV, coerced the plaintiffs to give up the keys. Both Lipsey IV and the passenger “exerted pressure through statements, intimidating body language, and coercive conduct toward (the plaintiff) to achieve this unlawful goal,” the suit said.

That same passenger who is a defendant in one suit also is suing the Lipseys through the firm Springer & Steinberg PC in Boulder. That suit, however, makes no reference to the family’s alleged party lifestyle, instead focusing on Lipsey IV’s reckless behavior and failure to obey traffic laws and his parents’ allowing him to operate the Tesla though he did not have a driver’s license.

Lipsey IV was 18 years old at the time of the crash. He pleaded guilty in May 2020 to felony vehicular assault, as well as to misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and drug possession. He was sentenced to probation for two years.

The Lipsey couple was sentenced in July to one year on probation and 200 hours of community service each after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count each of providing alcohol to minors. Those charges were not related to the November 2018 crash, but instead a January 2019 party. Joseph Lipsey III currently lives in Chatanooga, Tennessee, and Shira Lipsey in the Atlanta area, according to one of the lawsuits. The younger Lipsey currently is enrolled in college, according to court complaints.

Two lawsuits from the two other passengers also have been filed against the Lipseys in Pitkin County District Court. Those two suits have been served on the defendants; the two more recent filings have not, according to court records.

As of Sunday, there was no record of attorneys entering their appearance on behalf of the Lipseys or other defendants in the litigation.

rcarroll@aspentimes.com

 

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Firefighter with pending arson charges crashes while responding to fire, gets DWI - Wildfire Today

Firefighter Close Calls regularly sends out news about incidents that affect firefighters. Yesterday’s message described three that were rather bizarre.

• Two firefighters in North Carolina were responding in their own vehicles at 2:30 a.m. when one of them ran off the road and crashed. Both were charged with Driving While Intoxicated. They were both were already scheduled to appear in court in January to face multiple unrelated counts of arson, and now will also have court appearances in January to face the DWI charges. One of them is in line to become Chief of his department in January.
• A fire apparatus in North Carolina rolled over while returning from a parade.
• A Paramedic holding onto the roll cage of a utility vehicle while riding a bicycle to an emergency call was pulled under the vehicle and killed in the Line of Duty.

Here are the details from Firefighter Close Calls:

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Two North Carolina Firefighters have been charged with DWI following a crash responding to a fire. Orrum Township VFD Assistant Chief Kenneth Aaron Caulder Jr. and Fairmont RFD Deputy Chief Melquan Williams have been charged with DWI and had their driver’s licenses revoked for 30 days following a crash on Saturday, Williams was to become chief of the department in January.

Reports are that the two men were responding to a structure fire when the crash occurred. Williams was following Caulder’s vehicle. Both men were driving their personal vehicles.

Caulder crashed his Jeep on N.C. 41 around 0231 hours when the vehicle crossed the centerline, “ran off the road to the right and struck a ditch.” He refused to take a breathalyzer test.

Caulder and his female passenger, who were not wearing seat belts, were ejected. Both were transported by Robeson County EMS to UNC Health Southeastern for treatment of minor injuries. Cops said Williams had a strong odor of alcohol and later blew a .14.

In July 2018, Caulder and Williams were among 10 other Firefighters with Fairmont Rural and Orrum Township VFD’s charged with arson. Charges came after an investigation by the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office; State Bureau of Investigation; Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the N.C. Forest Service.

Caulder was charged with six counts of felony arson, burning a church, uninhabited house, store, two counts of felony setting fire to grass, brush, woods, and seven counts of felony conspiracy. He will appear in court for arson charges on Jan. 14 and on Jan. 20for the DWI charge.

Williams lost his job as a Maxton police officer in 2018 following the arson investigation, of which received charges of one count each of felony arson, burning a church, uninhabited house, store, and felony conspiracy. He will appear in court Jan. 7 for arson charges and Jan. 20 for DWI.

==RESPONDING FIRE APPARATUS ROLLS IN PA AND IN NORTH CAROLINA

==PENNSYLVANIA
Four Chester County (near Philly) Firefighters were injured after the fire apparatus they were in was involved in a crash, causing it to overturn. On Friday afternoon, Dec. 3, Sadsburyville Fire Co. was dispatched to Sadsbury Township for a report of an electrical fire inside a house. The engine was traveling south on Old Wilmington Road in the direction of the initial incident. The fire engine then became involved in a rollover crash.

Fortunately the 4 Firefighters inside the fire truck were wearing seat belts. The Firefighters were able to self-extricate from the vehicle and were tended to by EMS responders on the scene. All injuries were minor.

==NORTH CAROLINA:
A Hubert VFD fire apparatus returning from a parade rolled over this morning. The Captain was reportedly having chest pains just prior to the incident. KTIYP’s.

==LITTLE ROCK PARAMEDIC LODD UPDATE
A Paramedic was holding onto the roll cage of a utility vehicle while riding a bicycle to an emergency call at the Little Rock Marathon on Nov. 21 when he was pulled under the vehicle and killed in the Line of Duty.

EMS Major Dean Douglas, 50, died in the Line of Duty last Friday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from severe head trauma caused by the crash.

About 1000 hours Nov. 21, two hours after the marathon started, Douglas and two other EMS members were dispatched to a call about a marathon runner needing medical assistance. Neothe EMS members in the UV were injured.

Major Douglas’ last act of heroism was donating his organs. A father of three, owned D2 Comics and More in Jacksonville, and was a volunteer Fire Captain with the Gravel Ridge Fire Department. He also was a Navy veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm.

Take Care. Be Careful. Pass It On.
BillyG
The Secret List 12/4/2021-1545 Hours

Author: Bill Gabbert

After working full time in wildland fire for 33 years, he continues to learn, and strives to be a Student of Fire. View all posts by Bill Gabbert

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