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Sunday, December 29, 2019 1C The Telegraph MARKETPLACE Appliances Reconditioned Appliances Clean Refrigerators $99 & Up Stoves $99 & Up Washers/Dryers $99 & Up Hwy. 111 & Pontoon Rd. (618)931-9850 LEGALS 19-0972 PUBLIC NOTICE-VARIANCE REQUEST NOTICE is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on January 2nd 2020 at 6:00p.m. in the Jersey County Board office located at 200 N. La- fayette St. Jerseyville IL. 62052 Ste. 3, before the Subdivision and Land Use Committee for the pur- pose of hearing any interested persons in the fol- lowing request for a Variance. Requested by Alton Motor Boat Club., a Variance of Jersey County Commercial Side Line Setback of 35 Ft. from adjacent property line. Abbreviated Legal Description of property; SEC- TWP-RNG 24-6-11 PT SW1/4 SW1/4. This property is located at: 11134 Harbor Dell God- frey IL., 62035 All interested persons may submit their views in person, in writing, or by signed proxy prior to the public hearing or at the public hearing. All materials concerning this request may be seen at the Jersey County Code Administrator’s Office, located at 200 N. Lafayette St., Ste. 6 Jerseyville IL. 62052, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday thru Friday. Phone (618) 498-5571 Ext. 146. LEGALS 19-0971 PUBLIC HEARING LEGAL NOTICE JERSEY COUNTY, ILLINOIS Notice is hereby given in compliance with the Subdivision Or- dinance of Jersey County, Illinois, that a public hearing will be held before the Jersey County Subdivision and Land Use Com- mittee to consider the application of Donald M. Walsh, Sr. relat- ing to the following property commonly known as: Part of the SW ¼, Section 9, T8N, R11W, 3 P.M. Jersey County, Illinois The application is filed for the purpose of obtaining approval of a Preliminary Plat of Subdivision which will allow the Subject Property to be used for the development of thirteen (13) lots of Lakeview Estates Phase 3. A public hearing before the Subdivi- sion and Land Use Committee will be held at 6:00 p.m. on January 2, 2020 at the Jersey County Board Office, 200 N. La- fayette St., Ste 3, Jerseyville, IL 62052 at which time any per- son wishing to be heard may be present. /s/ Jersey County Code Administrator Jersey County, Illinois Wanted The Telegraph has home delivery routes available in the following area Jerseyville Call or Text Stanley for Information: 618-581-1037 Must have reliable transportation, valid Driver's License, and Car Insurance. Auctions EMPLOYMENT SCREW MACHINE TRAINEE: No experience necessary. $16.00/Hr to Start. Possible $30/hr Must have high Mechanical aptitude. In house school provided for the right candidate. To learn a trade apply in person. John J Steuby Co. 6002 N Lindbergh Blvd Hazelwood, MO 63042 314-895-1000 EOE REAL ESTATE SALES HOME FOR SALE $119,500 2bd 1ba home 937 sq.ft., 1109 Longfellow, Edwardsville, IL. Completely renovated, move-in ready, great location. NEW roofing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, flooring, kitchen, paint, bathroom vanity, toilet. Covered porch, 3 seasons back porch. Unfinished basement w/ large ‘bonus room’, Real estate agents welcome. Buyer to verify all data. Call Fallon @ 314.884.8637 REAL ESTATE SALES NEW LISTING! NEW LISTING! NEW LISTING! NEW LISTING! NEW LISTING! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! www.facebook.com/tarrantandharman VISIT WWW.TARRANTANDHARMAN.COM TO VIEW ALL OF OUR LISTINGS! CALL (618) 433-9436 3644 FOSTERBURG RD. ALTON, IL 62002 // [email protected] TBD HOXEY RD. - WORDEN $628,578 // 49.7ACRES, TILLABLE, ROADFRONT TBD STATE RT. 140 - BETHALTO $2,200,000 // 6.51 ACRES, COMMERCIAL 5114 STIRITZ LN. - GODFREY $325,000 // 3BR, 3BA, 3.47 ACRES 100 SERENITY DR. - ALTON $295,000 // 3BR, 3BA, 2 ACRES 207 WEST MORO DR. - MORO $260,000 // 4BR, 3BA, MOVE IN READY TBD BOCKSTRUCK LN. - ALTON $37,500 // 2.5 ACRES, UTILITIES NO RESERVE ONLINE AUCTION BIDDING 1/8 - 1/13 ONLINE AT BID.TARRANTANDHARMAN.COM 6503 FLORIDA AVE. - GODFREY // 3BR, 2BA, SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH A LARGE EAT-IN KITCHEN, SCREENED IN PATIO, 2 GARAGES, LARGE YARD. SOLD AS/IS. Thank y to all of r amazing clients and r hd wking broks f anoth successful ye at Tant & Hman. We have closed $108,000,000 in real estate with 770+ SOLD prties in 2019! NEW LISTING! Wanted The Telegraph has home delivery routes available in the following area(s) Wood River & Bethalto Call or Text Don for Information: 618-660-8649 Must have reliable transportation, valid Driver's License, and Car Insurance. Wanted Looking For Ways To Earn Extra CASH? The Telegraph is looking for an Independent Contractor for a Bundle Hauler Jerseyville, Grafton, Hardin & Carrollton Must have reliable transportation, valid IL drivers license, and valid insurance. If interested, please contact Brian Wells at 618-946-7078 or 618-463-2500 ext. 1372 or [email protected] LEGALS 19-0959 Notice is hereby given that on 1-15-2020, at 10:00 a.m. at A Storage Inn, 4111 Humbert Rd, Alton, IL, 62002, 618-462-9580, the undersigned, A Storage Inn will sell at Public Sale by competitive bidding, (cash only) the personal property heretofore stored with the undersigned by: Unit 201 Bridget Denton Unit 348 Tonya Stainback Unit 701 Julie Cole Unit 547 Katherine Holliday Unit 447 Pamela Johnson Unit 624 Pamela Johnson Unit 113 John Bunyan Unit 229 Lupe Phillips Unit 534 Janis Henning Unit 645 Ruth Bragg REAL ESTATE SALES East Alton, 504 3rd St., Laundromat and 6 Room Apt $69,000 618-656-1811 Apartments / Townhouses Move In Specials $99 Studios $199 1 Bdrm $299 2 Bdrm Includes Application, Deposit & 1st Month For Qualified Applicants Starting at $517-$600 Call For Details •618-465-8708• ALTON 2 & 3 Bedrooms Multiple Properties Starting at $550/month Day-463-0966 Night-466-9047 ALTON: 1 & 3 BR Apts. Starting at $425 + Dep. Batchelor Real Estate (618)462-8693 E. ALTON'S FINEST! 2 BR, DECKS/PATIOS SWIMMING POOL 618-259-8787 Furnished Apts. EAST ALTON, utilities furnished. Deposit, No Pets. Eff. $450, 1BR $550 Call 618-377-2621 Newly Decorated Spacious 2BR Large Decks Edwardsville Rd. $580-$590 (618)254-4269 Now Accepting Applications ---------------------- STOREY MANOR APARTMENTS ---------------------- Appliances, w/d hkup, rent & security deposit based on income. ---------------------- Call today 618-462-5626 ---------------------- Equal Housing Opportunity TTY/TDD 711 For Hearing Impaired Only Apartments / Townhouses FABULOUS AFFORDABLE MUST SEE APARTMENTS! Playground Community Room Security Much More 2 & 3 Bedrooms Rent & Security Based On Income. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Call Bissell Apartments Today!!! 1300 Klein Ave. • Venice, IL (618)451-7902 TTY/TDD 711 Equal Housing Opportunity Surrey Court Apartments $635/Month • 2 Bedroom/1 Bath • Updated appliances • Hardwood Vinyl Floors • Deck/Patio • Water/Sewer/Trash Paid • W/D Hookups • Pet Friendly Call For More Info 618.467.1899 “The Quarters Condos” For Lease LEXINGTON ESTATES @ Godfrey Road 618-467-0700 www. quarterscondosatlexington .com •Beautiful 2BR, 2BT •W/D Hookups •All Appliances Included • Garage/Storage • Located close to LCCC, Schnucks, & Alton Square Mall. • Great for Students, Professionals, Boomers, or Seniors. Commercial PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Godfrey Road Location Call 618-806-7226 [email protected] Wanted to Buy Wanted to Buy 8 Ft Dump Bed that will fit in the back of a Pick-Up Truck. 618-635-9246. AUTOMOTIVE 2014 Lincoln MKS sedan, red metallic, 44700 miles, very good condition, fully loaded with extras, one owner, dealer-serviced. Asking $17,750. Call 618.830.6763. Autos For Sale 2014 Ford Mustang Coupe, 3.7 V6 Engine, Automatic Transmission, Full Power, New Tires, Garage Kept, Non Smoker, Very Good Condi- tion, 82,000 Actual Miles, $12,500 obo 618-659-0577

Transcript of CALL (618) 433-9436 - Alton Telegraph

Sunday, December 29, 2019 1CThe Telegraph ALTON TELEGRAPH CLASS 01 122919

MARKETPLACE

Appliances

ReconditionedAppliances Clean

Refrigerators $99 & UpStoves $99 & Up

Washers/Dryers $99 & UpHwy. 111 & Pontoon Rd.

(618)931-9850

LEGALS

19-0972

PUBLIC NOTICE-VARIANCE REQUEST

NOTICE is hereby given that a Public Hearing willbe held on January 2nd 2020 at 6:00p.m. in the

Jersey County Board office located at 200 N. La-fayette St. Jerseyville IL. 62052 Ste. 3, before theSubdivision and Land Use Committee for the pur-pose of hearing any interested persons in the fol-

lowing request for a Variance.

Requested by Alton Motor Boat Club., a Varianceof Jersey County Commercial Side Line Setback of

35 Ft. from adjacent property line.

Abbreviated Legal Description of property; SEC-TWP-RNG 24-6-11 PT SW1/4 SW1/4.

This property is located at: 11134 Harbor Dell God-frey IL., 62035

All interested persons may submit their views inperson, in writing, or by signed proxy prior to the

public hearing or at the public hearing.

All materials concerning this request may be seenat the Jersey County Code Administrator’s Office,located at 200 N. Lafayette St., Ste. 6 Jerseyville

IL. 62052, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., Monday thru Friday. Phone (618) 498-5571

Ext. 146.

LEGALS

19-0971

PUBLIC HEARING LEGAL NOTICE

JERSEY COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Notice is hereby given in compliance with the Subdivision Or-dinance of Jersey County, Illinois, that a public hearing will be

held before the Jersey County Subdivision and Land Use Com-mittee to consider the application of Donald M. Walsh, Sr. relat-

ing to the following property commonly known as:

Part of the SW ¼, Section 9, T8N, R11W, 3 P.M. JerseyCounty, Illinois

The application is filed for the purpose of obtaining approval ofa Preliminary Plat of Subdivision which will allow the Subject

Property to be used for the development of thirteen (13) lots ofLakeview Estates Phase 3. A public hearing before the Subdivi-

sion and Land Use Committee will be held at 6:00 p.m. onJanuary 2, 2020 at the Jersey County Board Office, 200 N. La-fayette St., Ste 3, Jerseyville, IL 62052 at which time any per-

son wishing to be heard may be present.

/s/ Jersey County Code AdministratorJersey County, Illinois

Wanted

The Telegraph has homedelivery routes available in

the following areaJerseyville

Call or Text Stanley for Information:618-581-1037

Must have reliable transportation,valid Driver's License, and Car Insurance.

AuctionsEMPLOYMENT

SCREW MACHINE TRAINEE:No experience necessary.

$16.00/Hr to Start. Possible $30/hrMust have high Mechanical

aptitude. In house school providedfor the right candidate. To learn

a trade apply in person.

John J Steuby Co.6002 N Lindbergh BlvdHazelwood, MO 63042

314-895-1000EOE

REAL ESTATE SALES

HOME FOR SALE

$119,5002bd 1ba home 937 sq.ft.,

1109 Longfellow,Edwardsville, IL.

Completely renovated,move-in ready, great

location. NEW roofing, electrical, plumbing,HVAC, flooring, kitchen,

paint, bathroom vanity, toilet. Covered porch,3 seasons back porch.

Unfinished basement w/ large ‘bonus room’,Real estate agents welcome.

Buyer to verify all data.

Call Fallon @ 314.884.8637

REAL ESTATE SALES

NEW LISTING!

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VISIT WWW.TARRANTANDHARMAN.COMTO VIEW ALL OF OUR LISTINGS!

CALL (618) 433-94363644 FOSTERBURG RD. ALTON, IL 62002 // [email protected]

TBD HOXEY RD. - WORDEN$628,578 // 49.7ACRES, TILLABLE, ROADFRONT

TBD STATE RT. 140 - BETHALTO$2,200,000 // 6.51 ACRES, COMMERCIAL

5114 STIRITZ LN. - GODFREY$325,000 // 3BR, 3BA, 3.47 ACRES

100 SERENITY DR. - ALTON$295,000 // 3BR, 3BA, 2 ACRES

207 WEST MORO DR. - MORO$260,000 // 4BR, 3BA, MOVE IN READY

TBD BOCKSTRUCK LN. - ALTON$37,500 // 2.5 ACRES, UTILITIES

NO RESERVE ONLINE AUCTION

BIDDING 1/8 - 1/13 ONLINE AT BID.TARRANTANDHARMAN.COM6503 FLORIDA AVE. - GODFREY // 3BR, 2BA, SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH A LARGE

EAT-IN KITCHEN, SCREENED IN PATIO, 2 GARAGES, LARGE YARD. SOLD AS/IS.

Thank y� to all of �r amazing clients and �r hd w�king brok�s f� anoth� successful ye at T�ant

& Hman. We have closed �� $108,000,000 in real estate with 770+ SOLD pr��ties in 2019!

NEW LISTING!

Wanted

The Telegraph has homedelivery routes available in

the following area(s)Wood River & Bethalto

Call or Text Don for Information:618-660-8649

Must have reliable transportation,valid Driver's License, and Car Insurance.

Wanted

Looking For Ways To Earn Extra CASH?

The Telegraph is looking for an IndependentContractor for a Bundle Hauler

Jerseyville, Grafton, Hardin & CarrolltonMust have reliable transportation, valid IL drivers

license, and valid insurance.

If interested, please contactBrian Wells at 618-946-7078 or

618-463-2500 ext. 1372 [email protected]

LEGALS

19-0959

Notice is hereby giventhat on 1-15-2020, at

10:00 a.m. atA Storage Inn, 4111

Humbert Rd, Alton, IL,62002, 618-462-9580,

the undersigned, AStorage Inn will sell at

Public Sale bycompetitive bidding,

(cash only) thepersonal property

heretofore stored withthe undersigned by:

Unit 201 Bridget DentonUnit 348

Tonya StainbackUnit 701 Julie Cole

Unit 547Katherine Holliday

Unit 447Pamela Johnson

Unit 624Pamela Johnson

Unit 113 John BunyanUnit 229 Lupe Phillips

Unit 534 Janis HenningUnit 645 Ruth Bragg

REAL ESTATE SALES

East Alton, 504 3rd St.,Laundromat and 6Room Apt $69,000

618-656-1811

Apartments / Townhouses

��������Move In Specials

$99 Studios$199 1 Bdrm$299 2 Bdrm

Includes Application,Deposit & 1st Month

For Qualified ApplicantsStarting at $517-$600

Call For Details•618-465-8708•

ALTON2 & 3 BedroomsMultiple Properties

Starting at $550/monthDay-463-0966 Night-466-9047

ALTON:1 & 3 BR Apts.Starting at $425

+ Dep.Batchelor

Real Estate(618)462-8693

E. ALTON'S FINEST!2 BR, DECKS/PATIOSSWIMMING POOL

618-259-8787

Furnished Apts.EAST ALTON,

utilities furnished.Deposit, No Pets.

Eff. $450, 1BR $550Call 618-377-2621

Newly DecoratedSpacious 2BRLarge DecksEdwardsville Rd. $580-$590� (618)254-4269 �

Now AcceptingApplications

----------------------STOREYMANOR

APARTMENTS----------------------Appliances, w/d hkup,rent & security deposit

based on income.----------------------

Call today618-462-5626

----------------------Equal Housing

OpportunityTTY/TDD

711For Hearing

Impaired Only

Apartments / Townhouses

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MUST SEEAPARTMENTS!

� Playground� Community Room� Security� Much More

2 & 3 BedroomsRent & Security Based

On Income.NOW ACCEPTINGAPPLICATIONS

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� � � � � � � � � �1300 Klein Ave. • Venice, IL

(618)451-7902TTY/TDD 711Equal Housing

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“The Quarters Condos”For Lease

LEXINGTONESTATES @

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www.quarterscondosatlexington

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Commercial

PROFESSIONALOFFICE SPACE FOR

LEASEGodfrey Road Location

Call [email protected]

Wanted to Buy

Wanted to Buy 8 Ft DumpBed that will fit in the back of

a Pick-Up Truck.618-635-9246.

AUTOMOTIVE

2014 Lincoln MKSsedan, red metallic,

44700 miles, very goodcondition, fully loaded

with extras, one owner,dealer-serviced. Asking

$17,750. Call618.830.6763.

Autos For Sale

2014 Ford Mustang Coupe,3.7 V6 Engine, AutomaticTransmission, Full Power,

New Tires, Garage Kept, NonSmoker, Very Good Condi-tion, 82,000 Actual Miles,

$12,500 obo 618-659-0577

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REAL ESTATE SALES

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The Telegraph4C Sunday, December 29, 2019

PARIS (AP) — Thou-sands of protesters opposed to the French government’s plan to revamp the retirement system marched through Paris on Saturday, the 24th day of crippling strikes.

In an unusual gesture, unions organizing the march asked yellow vest protesters to join them. The march coincided with the 59th consecu-tive Saturday of marches by the yellow vest move-ment that seeks social and economic justice.

Brief scuffles marred the union march as indi-viduals, some wearing masks, burned construc-tion materials along the route. The march went from the Gare du Nord train station to Chatelet in central Paris.

“Whatever the color of the vest, we must stick together,” the leader of the hard-left CGT union Philippe Martinez said on BFMTV, referring to the several hundred yel-low vests who joined the march.

President Emmanuel

Macron wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 and rid the com-plex system of 42 special categories, notably rail-way and bus and Metro employees, with their own rules.

The strikes have dis-rupted transport across France and beyond, hob-bling Paris Metros and trains across the country as well as businesses. The strikes have been especially felt over the holiday season.

On Saturday, the SNCF train authority

said only six of 10 high-speed trains were run-ning. The Eurostar from Paris to London had four of five trains running. Paris Metro service was improving, with partial service on several lines that had been shut down from the start. Only two lines, both automatic, ran without problem.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe plans to continue talks with unions after a holiday break. The unions plan a major day of action on Jan. 9.

Michel Euler | APA demonstrator holds a French flag as he faces police officers during a protest against pension reform plans in Paris, Saturday. Thousands of protesters opposed to the French government’s plan to revamp the retirement system marched through Paris on Saturday, the 24th day of crippling strikes.

Thousands march in Paris to protest pension reform plan

By Janelle Coganand Sudhin ThanawalaAssociated Press

ATLANTA — A small plane en route to a college football game crashed into the park-ing lot of a post office in Louisiana shortly after takeoff on Saturday, killing five people and fully engulfing a car on the ground in flames, authorities said.

The two-engine Piper Cheyenne crashed in the city of Lafayette about 1 mile from the regional airport where the flight began, Federal Aviation Administration spokes-man Tony Molinaro said.

Steven Ensminger Jr., the son of the offensive coordinator for the Louisiana State Uni-versity football team, said his wife, Carley McCord, was on board the flight and died when it crashed. He said the plane was en route to the Peach Bowl playoff game in Atlanta between LSU and Oklahoma.

Ensminger said he was unable to go to the game and was at work when the crash happened. He said his father, Steven Ens-minger, called him just before the elder Ensminger got to the stadium.

“I just don’t feel like this is real,” Ensminger Jr. told the AP in an Instagram message. “I’m praying it’s not real.”

Video and photos showed a trail of scorched and burning grass around the crash site in the city of Lafay-ette. A blackened car sat in the post office parking lot, which was

carpeted with scattered tree limbs.

Four people were brought to the hospital: one from the plane, one on the ground and two post office employees who were brought in for evaluation, said Lafayette Fire Depart-ment spokesman Alton Trahan.

The aircraft was an eight-passenger plane, said Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit.

The plane went down in a part of the city with a scattering of banks, fast food chains and other businesses.

Marty Brady, 22, said the lights went out at his apartment a couple of hundred yards (183 meters) or so away from the crash site as he was preparing to make cof-fee.

He said he ran out and saw black smoke and flames from the post office parking lot and downed power lines.

“There were some

people screaming and somebody yelled that it was a plane,” he said.

Brady said the plane clipped a power line over the gate to his apartment complex.

“If it had been a little lower, it could have been a lot worse,” he said.

Kevin Jackson told KLFY-TV he heard a “massive explosion” and saw a “big old ball of flame” when the plane crashed. He and other eyewitnesses told the TV station that the plane hit a car as it fell, and that someone could be heard screaming inside the vehicle.

McCord was a Baton Rouge native and sports reporter for WDSU-TV in New Orleans, accord-ing to her website. She also appeared as a side-line reporter for ESPN. McCord previously worked in television in Cleveland, and she was a two-time runner-up in the Miss Louisiana pageant.

“We are devastated by the loss of such an amaz-ing talent and valued member of our WDSU family,” said WDSU President and General Manager, Joel Vilmenay. “Carley’s passion for sports journalism and her deep knowledge of Louisiana sports, from high school to the pro-fessional ranks, made her an exceptional jour-nalist. “

McCord is the second journalist working in the New Orleans area to die in a plane crash this year. On August 16, WVUE news anchor Nancy Parker was doing a story in New Orleans about stunt pilot Frank-lin Augustus when the two crashed. Both Park-er and Augustus died.

Lafayette is the fourth-largest city in Louisiana with a population of about 130,000, accord-ing to the 2018 census. It is located about 135 miles west of New Orleans.

Small plane crashes in Louisiana, killing 5

Scott Clause | The Lafayette Advertiser via APAuthorities investigate the scene after a small plane crashed into the parking lot of a post office in Lafayette, La., Saturday. Several people died in the crash.

By Lisa Marie PaneAssociated Press

The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter. Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia. Twenty-two more died at a Walmart in El Paso in August.

A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University shows that there were more mass killings in 2019 than any year dating back to at least the 1970s, punctu-ated by a chilling succession of deadly rampages during the summer.

In all, there were 41 mass killings, defined as when four or more people are killed excluding the perpetrator. Of those, 33 were mass shootings. More than 210 people were killed.

Most of the mass killings barely became national news, failing to resonate among the general public because they didn’t spill into public places like massacres in El Paso and Odessa, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Jersey City, New Jersey.

The majority of the killings involved people who knew each other — family disputes, drug or gang violence or people with beefs that directed their anger at co-workers or relatives.

In many cases, what set off the perpetrator remains a mystery.

That’s the case with the very first mass killing of 2019, when a 42-year-old man took an ax and stabbed to death his mother, stepfather, girlfriend and 9-month-old daughter in Clackamas County, Oregon. Two others, a roommate and an 8-year-old girl managed to escape; the rampage ended when responding police fatally shot the killer.

The perpetrator had had occasional run-ins with police over the years, but what drove him to attack his family remains unknown. He had just gotten a job training mechanics at an auto dealership, and despite occasional arguments with his relatives, most said there was nothing out of the ordinary that raised significant red flags.

The incident in Oregon was one of 18 mass kill-ings where family members were slain, and one of six that didn’t involve a gun. Among other trends in 2019:

— The 41 mass killings were the most in a sin-gle year since the AP/USA Today and Northeast-ern database began tracking such events back to 2006, but other research going back to the 1970s shows no other year with as many mass slayings. The second-most killings in a year prior to 2019 was 38 in 2006.

— The 211 people killed in this year’s cases is still eclipsed by the 224 victims in 2017, when the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history took place in Las Vegas.

— California, with some of the most strict gun laws in the country, had the most, with eight such mass slayings. But nearly half of U.S. states expe-rienced a mass slaying, from big cities like New York, to tiny towns like Elkmont, Alabama, with a population of just under 475 people.

— Firearms were the weapon in all but eight of the mass killings. Other weapons included knives, axes and at least twice when the perpetrator set a mobile home on fire, killing those inside.

— Nine mass shootings occurred in a public place. Other mass killings occurred in homes, in the workplace or at a bar.

James Densley, a criminologist and professor at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota, said the AP/USA Today/Northeastern database confirms and mirrors what his own research into exclusively mass shootings has shown.

“What makes this even more exceptional is that mass killings are going up at a time when general homicides, overall homicides, are going down,” Densley said. “As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths.“

He believes it’s partially a byproduct of an “angry and frustrated time” that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism.

“This seems to be the age of mass shootings,” Densley said.

He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and pro-fessor at Northeastern University, also expressed worries about the “contagion effect,” the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings.

“These are still rare events. Clearly the risk is low but the fear is high,” Fox said. “What fuels contagion is fear.”

The mass shootings this year include the three in August in Texas and Dayton that stirred fresh urgency, especially among Democratic presiden-tial candidates, to restrict access to firearms.

While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others. The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shoot-ings in August alone, more than 65 people were injured.

Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire of the shooting that took place between a 10-mile stretch in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gun-man and the barrel of a firearm. Instinctively, he got down just as his car was sprayed with bullets.

Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had actually been on edge since the Walmart shooting, which took place just 28 days earlier and about 300 miles away, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time.

US mass killings hit new high in 2019, most were shootings

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By Sara BurnettAssociated Press

HUMBOLDT, Iowa — To Amy Klobuchar, her just-completed tour of all 99 Iowa counties proves a point: As president, she would go everywhere and represent everyone, even in the heart of Trump country.

That’s “part of my way of being,” the Minnesota senator told Iowans at a rural restaurant in Humboldt County — the final stop of her tour and a place that, like much of the lead-off caucus state, overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in 2016. “I believe that we need someone as president who’s going to be the president for not half of America but all of America.”

Klobuchar is hoping to capitalize on caucus rules that can reward candidates who leave Democratic-heavy areas and large rallies to meet smaller groups in less populated counties. In those places, personal connections can be made over coffee or, as hap-pened this month, over hot chocolate and con-venience store breakfast pizza aboard Klobuchar’s campaign bus.

Those connections can translate into votes on caucus night, though going everywhere is no guarantee of success. Republican Rick Santo-rum campaigned in all 99 counties — known as the “full Grassley” after Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley — for the 2016 election and finished close to last in the Iowa caucuses. This election, former Rep. John Delaney has already

done it, but he hasn’t qualified for the debate stage since the summer.

It can be a grind.Klobuchar started

ticking off counties days after her February cam-paign launch and picked up the pace in recent weeks, her days on the bus sometimes going from before sunrise to close to midnight. On Dec. 22, she covered more than 1,000 miles or 1,600 kilometers on a swing that took her to events in 27 counties in under four days. A few events were held on her campaign bus because no local venues were avail-able.

The stakes are particu-larly high as Klobuchar tries to catch the four top candidates — Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sand-ers — before the Feb. 3 caucuses in a state where she’s invested most of her campaign.

Klobuchar has qualified for the Jan. 14 debate in Des Moines, where she’s bound to boast about her 99-county swing and knowledge of agricultural and other issues. That’s if the president’s Sen-ate impeachment trial doesn’t interfere with the debate and campaign.

She hopes her Mid-western background, years of campaigning for fellow Iowa Democrats and endorsements from local elected officials will give her a boost in a state where having seasoned caucus-goers and respect-ed leaders as advocates can make a difference.

Held on a Monday night, the caucuses con-sist of 1,679 precinct meetings where vot-ers must declare their preferred candidate. To have their votes counted toward delegates, a candidate must reach a viability threshold of 15% support in each precinct.

After the first vote, supporters of any candi-date not deemed viable may move to another candidate. That tests the ability of viable candi-dates’ supporters to sway their neighbors to join their side.

“For Sen. Klobuchar the challenge is going to be making sure she’s via-ble,” said Chris Larimer, a political science pro-fessor at the University of Northern Iowa who researched the impact of the “full Grassley” on governor’s races. He says it can help a candidate make personal connec-tions but “it’s just one element to a successful caucus campaign.”

Each candidate has his or her own strategy for picking up delegates. Biden is counting on being viable in every county, in part because voters know him and his support is seen as wider across the state’s geogra-

phy and population.Warren, Sanders and

Buttigieg have been drawing huge crowds, particularly in college communities and other liberal parts of the state, though their campaigns say they have a statewide infrastructure to com-pete elsewhere, too.

None of those candi-dates has come close to visiting every county. But Norm Sterzenbach, a longtime Iowa politi-cal strategist who joined Klobuchar’s team as cau-cus adviser this month, said working to become viable in as many places as possible is smart, especially in what he sees as a five-candidate race.

He predicts Biden, Buttigieg, Warren, Sand-ers and Klobuchar will each miss the viability threshold in some pre-cincts.

“The more places you can become viable, that just gets you on the board and you start earning delegates,” he said. “And so that’s why spreading this out and going everywhere is really key.” Especially, he said, for a senator from the rural state just to the north.

She “understands how to communicate to these voters,” he said. “There’s a lot of symmetry that makes it a fertile ground for her aside from the pure math.”

Sterzenbach, who helped the state party design the 2020 caucus system and previously worked for former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign, said the cau-cuses’ smaller gatherings can have an outsized

impact. In a precinct where maybe 30 voters turn out, it’s easier to connect with enough of them to be viable than it is to get 150 support-ers in a caucus crowd of 1,000.

“Caucuses are about relationships,” he said. “The way that I’ve always looked at it, the closer that you can get to the candidate having a rela-tionship with the voter, the better off you are.”

Kim Aneweer, 57, a teacher from Spirit Lake, Iowa, said she was swayed to support Klobu-char after hearing her speak Friday in Esther-ville, a town of about 6,000 people in a county along the Minnesota-Iowa line where over 65% of voters backed Trump in 2016.

“Today she just seems so real to me, and that’s what I’m craving, is somebody that has a decent heart and was a good person, and she sold me today,” Aneweer said. “All of her policies seem common sense to me. The fact that she’s a Midwest person — I feel like sometimes we’re overlooked here in the Midwest.”

Penny Wiersma wasn’t as convinced but said after the event that she has narrowed her choic-es to Klobuchar and Buttigieg. Wiersma, who at 81 said she has been a consistent caucus-goer for years, said she under-stands candidates can’t make it to every corner of the state because they only have so much time or money, but she appre-ciates when they do it.

“It feels like we’re being courted,” she said.

Klobuchar’s Iowa tour: Bragging point and caucus strategy

Charlie Neibergall | AP FileIn this Dec. 6 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during a stop at the Corner Sundry in Indianola, Iowa. Democrat Amy Klobuchar says she will become the first major 2020 candidate to have visited all 99 Iowa counties after stops scheduled for Friday in the lead off caucus state.

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A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the lon-gest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission.

Christina Koch, a 40-year-old electrical engineer from Livingston, Montana, arrived

at the International Space Sta-tion on March 14. She broke the record set by former space station commander Peggy Whitson in 2016-2017.

Koch is expected to spend a total of 328 days, or nearly 11 months, on board the space station before returning to Earth. Missions are typi-cally six months, but NASA

announced in April that it was extending her mission until February.

The U.S. record for longest space flight is 340 days set by Scott Kelly in 2015-2016. The world record is 15 months set in the 1990s by a Russian cosmonaut aboard the former Mir space

station.Koch’s extended mis-

sion will help NASA learn about the effects of long spaceflights, data that NASA offi-cials have said is need-ed to support future deep space exploration

missions to the Moon and Mars.

Before breaking the endur-ance record for a woman in space, Koch set another mile-stone as part of the first all-female spacewalking team in October. It was Koch’s fourth spacewalk.

She previously said she took a lot of helpful advice from Kelly’s 2017 autobiography “Endurance.”

US astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman

Koch

By Edith M. LedererAssociated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Friday strong-ly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, tor-ture, rape and deaths in detention.

The 193-member world body voted 134-9 with 28 abstentions in favor of the resolu-tion which also calls on Myanmar’s government to take urgent measures to combat incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states.

General Assembly resolutions are not legal-ly binding but they do reflect world opinion.

Buddhist-majority Myanmar has long con-sidered the Rohingya to be “Bengalis” from Bangladesh even though their families have lived in the country for gen-erations. Nearly all have

been denied citizenship since 1982, effectively rendering them state-less, and they are also denied freedom of move-ment and other basic rights.

The long-simmering Rohingya crisis exploded on Aug. 25, 2017, when Myanmar’s military launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine in response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group. The campaign led to the mass Rohingya exodus to Bangladesh and to accusations that security forces committed mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes.

Myanmar’s U.N. ambassador, Hau Do Suan called the resolu-tion “another classic example of double-stan-dards (and) selective and discriminatory appli-cation of human rights norms”” designed “to exert unwanted political pressure on Myanmar.””

He said the resolution did not attempt to find a solution to the complex situation in Rakhine

state and refused to recognize government efforts to address the challenges.

The resolution, the ambassador said, “will sow seeds of distrust and will create further polarization of differ-ent communities in the region.””

The resolution expresses alarm at the continuing influx of Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangla-desh over the last four decades, now numbering 1.1 million including 744,000 who arrived since August 2017, “ïn the aftermath of atroci-ties committed by the security and armed forces of Myanmar.”

The assembly also expressed alarm at an independent interna-tional fact-finding mis-sion’s findings “of gross human rights violations and abuses suffered by Rohingya Muslims and other minorities” by the security forces, which the mission said “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law.”

The resolution called for an immediate ces-sation of fighting and hostilities.

It reiterated “deep distress at reports that unarmed individuals in Rakhine state have been and continue to be subjected to the exces-sive use of forces and violations of interna-tional human rights law, international humanitar-ian law by the military and security and armed

forces.”And it called for

Myanmar’s forces to pro-tect all people, and for urgent steps to ensure justice for all rights vio-lations

The resolution also urged the government “to expedite efforts to eliminate statelessness and the systematic and institutionalized discrimination” against the Rohingya and other minorities, to dismantle

camps for Rohingyas and others displaced in Rakhine, and “to create the conditions necessary for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustain-able return of all refu-gees, including Rohing-ya Muslim refugees.”

It noted that the Rohingya have twice refused to return to Myanmar from Ban-gladesh because of the absence of these condi-tions.

UN condemns human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya

Thein Zaw | AP File In this Dec. 10 file photo, Members of Myanmar Muslims community hold portraits of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to pray as they gather in front of City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar. The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape and deaths in detention.

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By Menelaos HadjicostisAssociated Press

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Turkey’s willingness to dispatch troops to Libya is “unacceptable” and such a move would constitute unwanted meddling in the affairs of a friendly country, the speaker of the North African country’s parliament said Saturday.

Aguila Saleh said in a joint statement with his Cypriot coun-terpart that Turkey’s actions are increasing tensions and destabi-lizing the region.

Saleh and Cypriot parliamen-tary speaker Demetris Syllouris also reiterated their condemna-tion of a maritime border agree-ment that Turkey signed with Libya’s Tripoli-based government — but which hasn’t been ratified by the Libyan parliament — as a “flagrant violation of interna-tional law that’s devoid of any legal basis.”

According to the Cyprus News Agency, Saleh said Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj isn’t autho-rized to sign any agreements on his own because any such deal requires unanimous approval from the nine-member presi-dential council and parliament’s

assent.Sarraj is battling an offensive

launched in April by the rival gov-ernment based in eastern Libya and forces loyal to commander Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who is trying to take Tripoli, the capital.

The fighting has threatened to plunge Libya into violence rival-ing the 2011 conflict that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Speaking through an inter-preter, Saleh said Turkish Presi-dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan took advantage of the divisions within Libya, as well as Tripoli’s control by “terrorist groups,” to get the agreements approved.

According to Saleh, Erdogan’s aim “is to provoke countries in the eastern Mediterranean and to interfere in their exclusive economic zones without taking account these countries’ sover-eign rights at sea and in the air.”

A senior Cypriot government official told The Associated Press that Saleh asked European Union member Cyprus to convey to the 28-member bloc that deployment of Turkish forces in his country would destabilize the entire region. The official spoke on con-dition of anonymity because he’s

not authorized to disclose details of the Libyan official’s visit.

On a surprise visit to Tunisia earlier this week, Erdogan reiter-ated that his county would evalu-ate sending soldiers to Libya if there is an invitation from Tripoli, where Sarraj’s United Nations-supported but weak administra-tion is based.

Turkey has signed maritime and agreements with the Libyan government that controls Tripoli and some of the country’s west.

The military deal allows Anka-ra to dispatch military experts and personnel, along with weap-ons, despite a U.N. arms embargo that has been violated by other international actors.

Turkey contends the maritime agreement gives it economic rights to a large swath of the eastern Mediterranean sea. Greece, Cyprus and Egypt have denounced the deal as legally invalid as it encroaches on their maritime borders.

In Rome, asked about possible Turkish military action in Libya in support of Sarraj’s forces, Ital-ian Premier Giuseppe Conte said he had tried to discourage any attempt at a military solution for Libya.

Turkish Presidency via APTurkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses the members of his ruling party, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday. Erdogan says Thursday his government will submit a bill to parliament that would allow Turkey to send troops to Libya, in support of the U.N.-backed government there. Erdogan said the Libyan government, which controls the capital, Tripoli, has “invited” Turkey to send troops.

Libyan official: Turkish troops unwanted, destabilizing

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s human rights watchdog is call-ing for an investigation into the electrocution death of a man during anti-government pro-tests.

The death during clashes between police and protesters on Fri-day raised the number of those killed during protests that started in October to at least 27.

The man who died was 40 years old and was electrocuted after falling into a pit with cables during chaotic street scenes, accord-ing to police and local media.

The exact circum-stances of the man’s death should be clari-fied as soon as possible, Chile’s National Insti-tute of Human Rights said.

The death happened during a protest in Plaza Italia, a focal point of unrest in the capital of Santiago. The demonstrations started over an increase in the subway fare and eventu-ally encompassed griev-ances about pensions, education, health care and other issues.

Demonstrations are frequently held on Fri-day, and a movie theater burned in the latest clashes.

Demonstrators made way for firetrucks arriv-ing to fight the blaze at the Alameda Cultural Center, which also has been a staging ground for volunteer medics who treat injured dem-onstrators.

Firefighters said the building was badly damaged and the cause would be investigated.

Death toll in Chile protests since October rises to 27

By Janie HarAssociated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The cities and suburbs on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay are home to 2.7 million people, a world-class University of Califor-nia campus and bedroom communities for Silicon Valley that produce median incomes 50 percent higher than the national average.

What they no longer have is a thriving land-scape of local daily news-papers.

Gone is the Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times, The Daily Review of Hayward, The Argus of Fremont and the Tri-Valley Herald, among others.

Ownership changes and consolidations have left the region known as the East Bay with just a single daily. The East Bay Times, based in Walnut Creek, attempts to cover a region nearly the size of Delaware with a fraction of the staff of the former dailies.

The growing number of places across the country with dwindling or no local news options has been associated with mostly rural and lower-income areas, places that have little resilience to counter the trend among readers and advertisers to go online. But the East Bay — among the wealthiest and highest educated regions in the country — shows that no

place is immune to the struggles of the traditional news industry.

“It is really shocking that the place with the demographics and the busi-ness and the universities and the progressiveness, that this is a news desert ... “ said U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat who represents a signifi-cant part of the East Bay.

DeSaulnier is so con-cerned about the state of local news that he has backed legislative action in Congress to support it. One of those bills targets what he and others believe is a main culprit of the industry’s woes — the big tech and social media com-panies that profit from the content news outlets pro-duce without adequately sharing the profits.

Former journalists, civic leaders and others in the East Bay lament the loss of the community coverage that was once the staple of local dailies.

In Richmond, a working-class city of 110,000 domi-nated by Chevron and its oil refinery, Mayor Tom Butt recalls a time when two reporters were posted full-time in the press room of City Hall.

Today, coverage of Richmond falls largely to two online publications. The graduate journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley staffs Richmond Confidential,

which goes on hiatus dur-ing summer and winter breaks. The city’s largest employer, Chevron Corp., runs the other through a public relations firm.

A few miles down Inter-state 80, Martin Reynolds gazes up at the 22-story Tribune Tower that defines the Oakland skyline and was home to the Oakland Tribune for decades before the paper was sold and its headquarters moved.

The 142-year-old Tri-bune was the first African American-owned major metropolitan daily, and its staff took pride in its deep connection to the racially mixed city of over 400,000.

“We were just out there covering stuff all the time,” said Reynolds, 51. “We even had a Berkeley bureau.”

But ownership con-solidated and newsrooms shrank. The Digital First-owned Bay Area News Group eventually announced it would col-lapse the East Bay’s daily papers into one.

“There was a time when newspapers were so pow-erful and so meaningful and so influential to the community,” Reynolds said. “To have lost that is a shame.”

Digital First has a record of consolidating newspa-

pers and trimming staff, but it also has said that its business model keeps local journalism alive. The company staffs reporters throughout the region and has separate regional sections on the East Bay Times’ website.

Bay Area News Group Executive Editor Frank Pine said he understands the loyalty people have for the newspapers they grew up with, but said there is no way to turn back time.

The East Bay Times has collaborated with other publications in efforts to beef up local reporting, he said, including a recent in-depth project about law

enforcement officers with criminal convictions.

“Our business — the business of news — con-tinues to be distressed, and we’re doing our level best to stabilize that busi-ness and make it sustain-able into the future,” Pine said.

The loss of so many daily news outlets in this relatively well-to-do region has a ring of irony: Much of the East Bay’s wealth and growth is due to tech giants — Apple, Facebook and Google — whose head-quarters are a mere bridge crossing away on the other side of San Francisco Bay.

The online dominance of Facebook and Google, which rake in the major-ity of digital ad dollars, is a key reason the tradi-tional news business has declined.

Since the iPhone debuted in 2007, employ-ment in U.S. newspaper newsrooms has dropped by nearly half, according to the Pew Research Center. Newspaper ad revenue was $50 billion in 2005, accord-ing to the Pew Research Center. Today, it’s $14 billion.

Representatives of Google and Facebook reject the suggestion that their companies are responsible for that decline, saying business models, readership and the way society operates changed dramatically.

Even amid affluence of tech capital, local news struggles

Fernando Llano | APA protester stands amid tear gas fired by police trying to disperse an anti-government demonstration in Santiago, Chile, Friday. Chile has been roiled by continuing and sometimes violent street protests since Oct. 18, when a student protest over a modest increase in subway fares turned into a much larger and broader movement with a long list of demands that largely focus on inequality.

Eric Risberg | APIn this July 31 photo, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier gestures while holding a meeting on saving local news with panelists from Bay Area news outlets in San Francisco. “It is really shocking that the place with the demographics and the business and the universities and the progressiveness, that this is a news desert ... “ said DeSaulnier, a Democrat who represents a significant part of the East Bay.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital Saturday morning, killing at least 76 people including many students, authorities said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in Mogadishu in recent mem-ory, and witnesses said the force of the blast reminded them of the devastating 2017 bombing that killed hundreds.

The toll could rise as scores of people were rushed to hospitals, gov-ernment spokesman Ismail Mukhtar told The Associ-ated Press. Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, director of Madina hospital, said they had received 73 bodies. The Aamin Ambulance ser-vice reported at least 76 dead and more than 50 wounded.

Most of those killed

were university and other students returning to class, Mayor Omar

Mohamud Mohamed said at the scene. Two Turkish brothers were among the dead, Somalia’s foreign minister said.

Police Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the blast targeted a tax collection

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Sat. Jan 4th at First Community Arena at Vadalabene Booths • Entertainment • Fitness Demonstrations • Fashion Show

5K Run/Walk starts at 9am Register at runsignup.com (search for New Year New You) or scan the QR Code

Sponsored by:

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New \'ears Resolution Expo & 5K cFirst • Sponsored

by: Fora�u�!!u�ty

Sat. Jan 4th at First Community Arena at Vadalabene Booths • Entertainment • Fitness Demonstrations • Fashion Show

5K Run/Walk starts at 9am Register at runsignup.com (search for New Year New You) or scan the QR Code

Sponsored by:

IA/i:'Ci"' /sTA�

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��I..ATION

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SI·�� INTECSRl-TYc;UNI(; Spine and Joint Center

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