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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Mount Gilead holds candlelight vigil for fallen deputy Daniel Sherrer
MOUNT GILEAD, Ohio (WCMH) — The community gathered for a candlelight vigil Thursday to honor 31-year-old Morrow County Deputy Daniel Sherrer, who was shot and killed on Memorial Day. He died after responding to a domestic disturbance call where he found himself alone confronting an armed man. 'This has really hit the community really hard,' attendee Cathy Brake said. There were lots of tears, hugs, silence and prayers Thursday as people remembered Sherrer. 'I've lived in Morrow County my whole life and just to hear about this incident that's happened, it's breathtaking and it's really heartbreaking to the community,' resident Jennifer Fisher said. Outside of the growing memorial for Sherrer at the Morrow County Sheriff's Office, hundreds gathered for the candlelight vigil. 'Just a really deep, deep emotion of just thinking about his family and all of the officers that work here in Morrow County,' Brake said. The tight-knit community has been shaken to its core by Sherrer's death. 'Very, very sad thing especially for a small community like this and it almost made me tear up to see the community come together and support in a time like this,' said resident Hayden Styer. What we know about the conditions of the Mifflin Township officers who were shot Sherrer was a 2012 graduate of St. Charles Preparatory Academy in Bexley and studied at Bowling Green State University and Columbus State University. He spent his law enforcement career at the Morrow County Sheriff's Office since he was hired in May of 2021. 'Especially with how young he was in the department, only four years on, he had so much more to give,' attendee Abby Pence said. 'And from what I've read and heard it sounded like he was one of those good cops.' 31-year-old Sherrer was engaged to be married and is survived by his parents and other relatives. 'Just knowing that he's never going to have children, grandchildren, it's just sickening,' Brake said. Those at the vigil said in times like this there are often more questions than answers. Many are still struggling to make sense of Sherrer's death. Now, they're trying to find hope. 'Just seeing the community come together for this blue line family, it's definitely really meaningful to see how much support they actually have,' said Abby Pence. 'It's very heartwarming and it just shows the tightness of the community and the caring people that we have here,' Brake said. According to Morrow County Sheriff John Hinton and loved ones, Sherrer always had a smile on his face and loved the community he served. According to his obituary, Sherrer was an organ donor, choosing to help others after his death. Funeral arrangements have been finalized for Sherrer. According to Snyder Funeral Homes, visitation will be held from 1 to 7 p.m. on June 3 at Northmor High School in Galion. The school is located at 7819 State Route 19. Services to honor and celebrate Sherrer's life will take place at the school on June 4 at 11 a.m. Private graveside services will be held at Marion Cemetery. More details about Sherrer's funeral can be read here. A donation fund has been set up for his family. Donations can be mailed in or dropped off at Morrow County Federal Credit Union located at 800 West Marion Rd. in Mount Gilead. Checks should be made payable to 'Daniel Sherrer, In Memory of'. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hypebeast
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Hypebeast
BMW 正式發表全新概念設計車款「Concept Speedtop」
本文看點 BMW在 2025 年義大利古董車展Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este上正式揭曉最新設計力作「Concept Speedtop」，這款大膽的三門 Touring 轎跑車延續了去年備受讚譽的Skytop 概念車。 Concept Speedtop 融合了 Shooting Brake 的肌肉線條與精緻手工內飾，並搭載 V 形鯊魚鼻車頭，以及從 Floating Sunstone Maroon 漸變至 Floating Sundown Silver 的流線型車頂。車內採用雙座布局，內飾以 Sundown Maroon 和 Moonstone White 雙色調皮革打造，飾有細膩的布洛克雕花細節，同時配備客製化 Schedoni 行李箱，巧妙收納於專屬隔間。 BMW Concept Speedtop 僅限量生產 70 輛，採用 BMW 最強大的 V8 引擎，確保性能與美學完美匹配，BMW 將其譽為「我們整個產品陣容的驚嘆號」。目前已開放訂購，有興趣的讀者不妨多加留意。
The National
19-05-2025
- Health
- The National
Global campaign to halve number of road deaths requires more action, experts warn
A world where eight or nine jumbo jets filled with passengers crashed each day with no survivors seems unthinkable. Yet such a situation roughly equates to the number of people – about 3,260 – who die on the world's roads on an average day, based on figures from 2021. This devastating toll, which works out at about 1.2 million deaths each year, has been called "the silent pandemic". Road accidents are the biggest killer of young people globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says. In the UK, for example, they cause the deaths of about five people each day and result in 80 being seriously injured, indicate figures reported by Brake, an advocate for safer roads. 'If anything else came into our lives and was harming people at that rate, more change would be done,' says Luca Straker, Brake's campaign manager. 'The media quite often covers that a crash has happened in which people have been killed but it seems to just be part of our lives rather than something that shocks people. A lot of people seem to think it's inevitable that crashes will happen on the road, whereas we believe that every single crash is preventable.' The world is approaching the halfway point of the UN's Decade of Action for Road Safety, which set the target of halving road deaths between the start of 2021 and the end of 2030. In 2021, the global total was almost 1.2 million road deaths. In the previous decade there had been a 5 per cent reduction in deaths despite significant growth in the number of vehicles. Prof Chris Cherry, who researches road safety at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said the UN's target, which demands much faster reductions in accident rates in the 2020s than were seen in the 2010s, will be hard to achieve. 'One of the real challenges with those sorts of goals is there's not usually a specific one thing you can focus on,' Prof Cherry said. 'These are system failures that happen across many different agencies and institutions. Individuals have different levels of responsibility and what that's historically allowed people to do is to deflect responsibility.' Lucy Harrison, justice and outreach manager for RoadPeace, a charity that supports those involved in road crashes, said that even when someone is culpable "many in society still won't view this as a criminal act". "Further, police investigate crashes from a position of finding out if someone is to blame but we don't really investigate crashes from a point of looking at the cause." She suggested the UK should go ahead with setting up the proposed Road Safety Investigation Branch, mirroring its Air Accidents Investigation Branch. "A change in culture is desperately needed," Ms Harrison said. "We won't truly tackle road death until every stakeholder understands it is preventable and unnecessary. "Measures should be aimed at those who cause the most harm on our roads, instead of those who cause the least. Our politicians and leaders need to meet crash victims and hear their stories, and understand the horrendous ripple effect and life-long consequences that serious road crashes have." According to the WHO, males are three times as likely to be killed in road accidents as females, while effects are felt most severely in low and middle-income countries, which have 60 per cent of the world's vehicles but account for 92 per cent of road deaths. A quarter of those killed were in four-wheeled vehicles, with 30 per cent motorcyclists, 21 per cent pedestrians, 5 per cent cyclists and 19 per cent in coaches, buses, lorries and other vehicles. Beyond the horrific death toll, 20 million to 50 million people suffer non-fatal injuries in road crashes each year, with some permanently disabled. Controlling speed is central to efforts to reduce road deaths, because when vehicles are travelling faster, accidents are more likely and often more severe. The stopping distance of a car travelling at 30mph is double that of one going at 20mph. 'We have a lot of engineering arrogance in our profession, that we'll just build a better guardrail and that will solve all of our problems, but in reality there are so many things that can go wrong at speed and we can't try to predict all of them,' Prof Cherry said. To keep speeds down, limits must be strictly enforced, says Prof Stefan Bauernschuster, of the University of Passau in Germany. 'Telling people speeding is dangerous – and there are many deaths because of speeding – this is completely futile,' he said. 'What helps is if people are afraid they will get caught: if you exceed the expected speed, you will be caught. They drive more carefully, this reduces accidents.' Echoing this, Prof Cherry said cities that have done well in curbing the problem are mostly European ones that have focused on speed management. 'Some of that is enabled by automated enforcement schemes for red-light running, for speeding, [and] dramatically reducing speed limits in areas where there are any pedestrians,' he said. 'These 30kph roads are safe enough inherently that if a crash happens, it doesn't result in deaths or at least seldom results in deaths.' Efforts to lower speeds often face opposition, such as in Wales, where the introduction of a default 20mph limit in built-up areas in September 2023 was met with an opposing petition signed by half a million people. However, in the first 12 months after the policy was introduced, the number of crashes fell by 26 per cent and the related death toll also dropped, as did injuries. Ms Straker said speed limit reductions in urban areas encourage people to walk, reducing the number of vehicles on the road. According to official figures, the death rate on the roads in the UAE, adjusted for population, fell by two thirds between 2010 and 2019. Thomas Edelmann, founder and managing director of Road Safety UAE, credits the improvement with measures including better enforcement of traffic laws, such as through cameras to detect speeding, jumping red lights and whether someone is wearing a seat belt. More modern vehicles with technology such as collision warning and prevention systems have played a role, as have improved emergency medical treatment and education campaigns, said Mr Edelmann. He suggests further improvements, both in the UAE and globally, could come from more universal use of seat belts and efforts to tackle 'distracted driving', among other policies. 'The use of the mobile phone must be restricted, by education and by technology,' he said. 'Start road safety education in kindergartens and schools to instil the right safety habits as early as possible.' While he said full autonomous driving technology could help in the long term, currently it appears to be 'far away' from implementation. Prof Cherry has a similar view. 'I'm sceptical that the technology will scale at a price point that's competitive in a way that transforms our mobility system in a meaningful way,' he said. As the world continues to grapple with the challenge of reducing road deaths, Ms Straker said halving the global rate was feasible 'if robust, bold measures and changes happen' and the effects that road deaths have on families highlight the need for urgent action. 'It's a horrific thing for anyone to have to go through,' Ms Straker said. "It's indescribable pain these crashes cause."
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
ECMAs end on high note, with a dozen more awards for N.L. musicians
The East Coast Music Awards has come and gone, and some Newfoundland and Labrador musicians are walking away with new trophies and memories. Brazilian duo Ana and Eric, based in St. John's, opened the event's second awards show with a gentle acoustic performance Sunday morning. Eighteen music awards and six industry awards were given out, in addition to honorary awards. Twelve of Sunday's winners are from Newfoundland and Labrador. Heather Feather took home the prize for children's artist of the year. She said in a speech that her "world fell apart" when she became disabled, but she was able to lean on the music community. "All of a sudden, everyone just rallied closer," she said. Dance release of the year went to 17-year-old Summer Bennett. "Even being nominated is crazy," Bennett said. The 2024 CBC Searchlight Top Teen promised she wouldn't cry on stage, despite the surprise. "It's really special," she said. "I started writing music at six years old. Trying to write pop music is, of course, very different from anything else." Celebrating the win in her home province — where dance music isn't the most popular genre — made the moment even more meaningful, said Bennett. Some tears were shed in the audience as the honorary musicians' achievement award went to the late Chris Ryan, who died unexpectedly in October. Ryan was the kind of person who would support a fellow musician in a heartbeat, said his partner Amber Miller, who accepted the award. "He opened for festivals at a moment's notice, most recently cancelling his own birthday party so he could play guitar for another musician so they could be in the spotlight," said Miller. Nearly every person in the room stood to give applause when Miller walked off stage. The show-stopping moments continued when experimental hardcore band The Order of the Precious Blood took the time to dedicate their award to the music scene they came from. The five-piece group, fronted by Paul Brake, won loud release of the year. "A band like us doesn't exist in a vacuum," Brake said to the audience. "There's such a rich culture of this kind of music on the east coast." Brake riddled the names of dozens of bands from Newfoundland and Labrador and other Atlantic Canadian provinces, adding that his band's award belongs to all of them. In an interview after the event, the vocalist said he wanted to use his platform to lift up artists who feel as though they aren't recognized in the larger music industry. "We want to make sure that … their names are heard in rooms that they wouldn't get spoken in otherwise," said Brake. "Once you get playing and you find your voice, the sky's the limit." The remaining Newfoundland and Labrador winners from Sunday are: Ana Luísa Ramos, global music release of the year, Mark Fewer, instrumental release of the year, Quote the Raven, roots release of the year, Hurricane Music, artist management of the year, Jud Haynes, content creator of the year, Zach Snow, media person of the year, Wade Pinhorn, industry builder honorary award, and Korona Brophy, Stompin' Tom honorary award. Download our free CBC News app to sign up for push alerts for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador. Click here to visit our landing page.
Otago Daily Times
07-05-2025
- Automotive
- Otago Daily Times
Road Safety Week
Photo: ODT files Road Safety Week moves into gear next week. Co-ordinated by road safety charity Brake and sponsored by NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi and Beca, Road Safety Week involves hundreds of communities, schools and organisations. The theme is ''Be a road safety hero''. It aims to recognise people who are working to make our roads safer and also those who care for people after a crash - from emergency services workers to road designers and engineers, road workers to school crossing patrols and walking school bus volunteers, health professionals to community campaigners. During the week, schools, community groups and organisations will also be calling on everyone to be road safety heroes and play their part in making journeys safer. For more information, visit
