Lula M. Hall Lounsbery, 97, Niles, Mich., formerly of Winamac, died Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, at Memorial Hospital, South Bend.
Arrangements are pending at Frain Mortuary, Winamac.
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Belleville football head coach Jermain Crowell has been suspended by the school pending a Michigan High School Athletic Association investigation into his alleged involvement in possible undue influence violations.
The suspension was first reported by the Detroit Free Press, stating that Crowell was under investigation for allegedly making initial contact with Detroit Martin Luther King senior Jameel Croft Jr., who was an incoming freshman at the time of the alleged violation.
Croft told the Free Press in a separate story that Crowell had picked him up and taken him to practices during the summer entering his freshman year before he was enrolled as a student.
That would violate the undue influence rule that states transporting prospective athletes to high schools for entrance exams and athletic events is prohibited. Inviting specific prospective athletes to summer camps is also a violation under the rule.
MHSAA director of communications Geoff Kimmerly confirmed to MLive via text Thursday afternoon that there was an investigation ongoing, but deferred to Belleville for details on the investigation.
A message was left Thursday with Belleville athletic director Joe Brodie for comment.
Crowell denied the allegations to the Free Press. A message was also left with Crowell seeking comment on Thursday.
The suspension comes one day prior to Belleville’s Division 1 district final matchup with Saline. Crowell did not coach in Belleville’s playoff opener last week and will not coach on Friday.
Crowell led Belleville to a state championship victory last season and has the Tigers on a 21-game winning streak.
The Air Force is allowing instructors who remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 to fly again, a change that comes as the result of a pending lawsuit that is stopping the service from punishing those who have refused to get inoculated. The pilots were grounded this summer.
An Oct. 25 memo shared with Military.com on Tuesday issued by Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart, the commander of 19th Air Force, reverses an Aug. 19 decision that kept those unvaccinated teachers from flying.
"Instructor pilots, who received final denial of their religious or medical accommodation request for the COVID-19 vaccination and requested retirement or separation, will be permitted to fly again until litigation regarding the COVID-19 mandate is resolved by the U.S. Courts," Capt. Lauren Woods, a spokeswoman for Air Education and Training Command, told Military.com in an emailed statement.
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One of the reasons behind the change is a pending lawsuit filed by troops attached to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, that has led to temporary protections for the more than 9,000 active-duty, Active Reserve, Reserve and National Guard members of the Air Force and Space Force who asked for a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
While the Oct. 25 memo states that the pending court case "does not affect" the policy that the Air Force intends to ground unvaccinated flight instructors, but Stewart wrote he was reinstating their flying privileges, adding it was "in the best interest of the Air Force," meaning the policy could change again based on the outcome of the lawsuit.
"This guidance will be reassessed after the final determination of the court," Stewart wrote.
Nineteenth Air Force, which is under Air Education and Training Command out of Joint Base San Antonio, had grounded the instructor pilots for two months. The policy reversal only applies to instructor pilots, Woods said. Students who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine will still be grounded.
"Given the lengthy nature of the administrative exemption process and uncertain outcomes for each specific case, student pilots who have refused the vaccine will remain on administrative hold," Woods said in an email. "In order to maximize readiness, training will be prioritized for student pilots who have received the vaccine."
Since July 11, the day when the latest figures were released, the Department of the Air Force has administratively separated 834 service members, and nearly 140 airmen and Guardians have received religious exemptions.
As of the most recent vaccination data for the Department of the Air Force, 98% of the total force -- active-duty, Reserve and Air National Guard -- had been inoculated against COVID-19.
Around 12,000 of the 497,000 total personnel in the Air Force and Space Force have not been vaccinated.
As of Oct. 18, the service had approved more than 1,000 medical and administrative exemptions to the vaccine.
The service members out of Wright-Patterson who are part of the religious exemption lawsuit are represented by the New York-based Siri & Glimstad law firm. They were all "found by a Chaplain in the Air Force to hold sincere religious belief substantially burdened by the order to be vaccinated," according to a press release from the firm.
Refusers often state that the use of fetal cell lines in the creation of the vaccine prevents them from taking the vaccine because of their views on abortion.
The Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines do not need fetal cell lines for development or production but were tested on fetal cell lines replicated from an aborted fetus in the 1970s to ensure their efficacy. Only the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is made using fetal cell lines.
In an attempt to convince some with those religious objections, the Air Force announced in July that Novavax -- a COVID-19 vaccine developed without the use of human fetal-derived cell lines or tissue -- would be an option in the near future for airmen and Guardians.
"Novavax may accommodate those with sincerely held beliefs who felt limited in their options with the previous vaccine offering," Maj. Gen. Sharon Bannister, medical operations director, Air Force surgeon general, said in a statement in July.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been approximately 163,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in the Air Force, and 166 deaths, according to the latest data.
-- Thomas Novelly can be reached at thomas.novelly@military.com. Follow him on Twitter @TomNovelly.
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A New Florence man acquitted of killing a police officer in 2015 will remain in jail as he awaits trial on charges that he assaulted a law enforcement official as police attempted to take him into custody on an outstanding warrant.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Megan Bilik-DeFazio on Monday rejected a defense request to lift the detainer that has held Ray Allen Shetler Jr. in custody.
“I am not confident with Mr. Shetler’s compliance with probation,” the judge said.
Shetler, 38, has been in jail since December 2021 after he was arrested for failing to appear in court for a probation violation hearing. Prosecutors said he violated terms of his release from jail after serving a short sentence for theft of a truck while fleeing from authorities following the fatal shooting of St. Clair Township police Officer Lloyd Reed.
Reed, who was in full uniform, was fatally shot by Shetler while responding to a domestic abuse call in New Florence. Shetler claimed he didn’t know Reed was a police officer.
Prosecutors claimed Shetler violated the terms of his release when he tested positive for illegal drugs in August 2021 and failed to contact probation officers last year.
Sheriff’s Department Lt. Jesse Salandro and Cpl. Jonathan Lindsay with the Pennsylvania State Police testified Monday that Shelter was detained following a five-day search, which included visits to as many as eight addresses in the Saltsburg and New Florence areas.
Lindsay said police tracked Shetler to one address just over the border of Indiana and Westmoreland counties.
“We missed him by approximately five minutes,” Lindsay testified.
Helicopters and dogs were used in an attempt to track Shetler in the nearby woods, but officers eventually lost his trail, Lindsay said.
Days later, a team of about a half-dozen deputy sheriffs and state police officers returned to a trailer in New Florence where they found Shetler hidden in a futon, Salandro testified.
Police said Shetler fought with officers as they attempted to take him into custody, and one deputy sheriff was injured in the fight. Shetler was hit in the eye with a Taser during the altercation.
Following his arrest, Shetler was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest and other offenses. Bilik-DeFazio in October ruled Shetler’s speedy trial rights were violated and set Shetler’s bail at $1, which has since been posted. Shetler remained behind bars pending the outcome of Monday’s detainer hearing.
Assistant District Attorney Leo Ciaramitaro argued that Shetler’s violent interactions with police officers and documented violations of probation terms disqualify him from being released from jail while his cases are pending. The county’s probation office also recommended Shetler remain behind bars.
Defense attorney Michael Garofalo told the judge Shetler should be placed on house arrest and his whereabouts monitored with a GPS tracking device.
“Other than this incident, the prior incident he was acquitted of, he has no prior violations. The (probation) violation is de minimus. It’s tenuous at best. They can argue my client would not have come in if anybody had talked to him,” Garofalo said.
Rich Cholodofsky is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Rich by email at rcholodofsky@triblive.com or via Twitter .
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