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Indianapolis Star
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
More top marks in the state ahead of sectionals: Vote for IHSAA track and field athlete of week
IndyStar track and field athlete of the week, presented by YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, returns after another week of season-best performances. Congrats to last week's winner, Mallory Weller of Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran with 40,105 votes. This poll will celebrate the best of Central Indiana track and field throughout the 2025 season. The poll will be open until noon Friday. Cast your vote in poll at the bottom of the article. Makena Cruse, Greenwood: Cruse broke the school record in the 800 meters on Wednesday with a time of 2:19.69. Cruse shattered the 15-year-old record by 2 seconds. Jada Harper, New Albany: Harper, a freshman, won the Hoosier Hills Conference 100 hurdles with a time of 14.20 seconds. She also anchored New Albany's 4x100 relay team with a 48.61 seconds. Harper has the best time in the 300 hurdles in the state (42.57) and second-best in the 100 hurdles. Emily Norris, Carmel: Norris had a big performance at the Hamilton County championships with victories in the 200 (26.06 seconds) and long jump (19-3). She also ran the second leg of the Greyhounds' 4x100 relay, which also won (47.92 seconds). Norris has the second-best mark on the long jump in the state this spring. Amelia Smith, Guerin Catholic: The sophomore won the pole vault at the Hamilton County meet with a vault of 12-6. That is the best mark in the state this spring. Smith won the small school division of the Hoosier State Relays at the end of March with a 13-3 mark. Carly VonDielingen, Whiteland: The junior posted the best mark in the state this spring in the discus with a mark of 153-0 at the Bloomington North Twilight Invitational. She also took second in the shot put. VonDielingen was a top-10 state finisher last year in both events. Her mark of 43-3 in the shot put is fourth-best in the state this season. Jackson Gackenheimer, Warsaw: The junior won the Northern Lakes Conference championships in the 1,600 and 3,200 meters. The 1,600 victory was a close race against Mishawaka senior Liam Bauschke (4:13.52). Gackenheimer has third-best time in the 1,600 this spring. Darion Highbaugh, North Central: The senior broke his own personal record and won the Marion County meet with a 6-8 performance in the high jump. Denhm Holt, North Central: The senior DePaul commit set new Marion County and school records with a 46.76 in the 400 meters at the Marion County meet on Wednesday. Holt also anchored the 4x400 relay team to a victory with a time of 3:14.66. Holt's 400 time is the second-best in state history. Damario Moore, Lawrence North: The senior won a battle with Franklin Central's Rylan Hainje in the 300 hurdles at the Marion County meet on Wednesday. Moore's time of 36.93 seconds is the best in the state this spring and Hainje's 37.20 time is second. Both are top-10 performances all-time. Damon Winston, Sheridan: The senior won broke school record that stood for 32 years with a 6-10 performance in the high jump in his final home meet on Wednesday. The previous record was 6-8. IF POLL DOES NOT APPEAR, click here to vote.
Zawya
18-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
South Africa 2025 Budget: Implications for renewable energy solutions private producers
While the Budget Speech provides the financial framework for the private sector to get involved in investing in renewable energy projects in South Africa, private companies and overseas investors will study the Budget documents to see if there are adequate allocations that show a commitment to creating an attractive investment environment. So says Impower, a specialist solar and energy storage company, Impower's spokesperson and energy expert Matthew Cruse. 'There is an enormous pressure on government to double the capacity of our national grid by the year 2035,' says Cruse. Comments made by the President earlier this year in his State of the Nation Address pointed to plans to help enable green manufacturing and municipalities to transition to renewable energy in South Africa. This, says Cruise, further emphasises the importance of government efforts to support investment in renewable energy. Risk for South African producers Europe has implemented their carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), which can have severe consequences for locally produced products destined for export. These measures financially penalise any producers who are deemed to be reliant on 'dirty' energy sources. 'There is a real risk for South African producers that have not embraced renewable energy and are still reliant on Eskom, as they will be severely affected by such tariffs,' says Cruise. Electricity infrastructure Consumers have seen an effective doubling in the price of electricity over the last five years, which has put an incredible burden on poor and middle-class households who have to make a choice between food or electricity. Cruse is encouraged that the government seems to be serious about getting involved with the better and more effective management of electricity infrastructure on a municipal level. 'As announced in the budget speech, municipalities will be assisted to ring-fence the revenues from distributing electricity, enabling them to run with operating surpluses. 'Efforts such as these support efficiency and better financial management and encourage companies such as ours to build solar farms inside municipalities. 'This has the benefit of the municipality receiving electricity at half the price and removing their demand from the national grid, which helps to reduce the strain that causes load shedding,' says Cruise. All rights reserved. © 2022. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (
Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Nearly a year later, Loyola students who joined pro-Palestine protests still face consequences
Carson Cruse, a student activist at Loyola University, speaks at a rally held in front of the Poydras Center on March 11, 2025. (John Gray / Verite News) NEW ORLEANS – Almost a year after hundreds of people occupied part of Tulane University's campus, two of the Loyola University students who participated in a pro-Palestine encampment are facing consequences from their school. Last month, Loyola suspended Carson Cruse from the university through May 10. He and Juleea Berthelot have been on disciplinary probation since June 2024. Cruse was slated to graduate from the university this spring but now has to delay his graduation to either December 2025 or May 2026, depending on when his required classes are offered. Berthelot, who has been on probation for most of the last year, told Verite News that they have to be cautious to not 'mess up in the slightest' on or off campus to avoid facing further disciplinary action. Cruse and Berthelot are members of Liberate and Unite New Orleans Students for a Democratic Society, formerly known as Loyola SDS until the group lost its registered student organization status with the university and voted to disband in October 2024. The current organization exists off campus, although it is composed of students from Loyola. According to Loyola's Student Code of Conduct, disciplinary probation is the 'temporary suspension of a student or student organization's good standing with the University' for a certain time period. Extra disciplinary actions can be given and once completed with the period of probation, a student or student organization is returned to good standing if they meet all probation terms. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Cruse and Berthelot are two of five students who Loyola disciplined last summer. They both said they received the harshest discipline from the school because administrators labeled them as leaders of the school's SDS chapter, alleging that they played a lead role in organizing the Tulane encampment. Disciplinary actions like the ones taken against Cruse and Berthelot, and against Tulane students who participated in the encampment protest, are being handed down to students at universities across the United States for staging and joining pro-Palestine protests on campus. This past weekend, Columbia University pro-Palestine protester Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for his participation in a student encampment last spring. He is being held in a detention facility in Central Louisiana. Khalil's case is a high-profile example of the consequences student protesters have faced in recent months. Free speech advocates say that the arrests and disciplinary actions taken against student protesters violate their First Amendment rights, while pro-Israel advocates have claimed the protests threatened the safety of Jewish students. Cruse said he was suspended after speaking at a Port of New Orleans board meeting last October, in which he said he was speaking on behalf of 'Loyola SDS,' which had lost its status as a university-registered student group by then. Cruse told Verite News that he meant to say he was with the new organization he and schoolmates created after they disbanded as a university group, and that his incorrect naming of the group was 'simply a slip of the tongue.' He was there with other pro-Palestine activists in the city, including New Orleans Stop Helping Israel's Ports, urging the port to cut its ties to Israel. He alleged that Port NOLA board secretary-treasurer Sharonda Williams, who is also Loyola's general counsel, reported him to the university for allegedly promoting an unregistered student organization. Such an act is in violation of the university's student organization handbook. A Loyola spokesperson confirmed that Williams is general counsel but denied that she is a part of the administrative hearings, appeals process, decisions made or sanctions handed down. Williams told Verite News to refer to the information sent from the spokesperson. Loyola administrators then escalated Cruse's disciplinary probation — which stemmed from his participation in the late April 2024 encampment — to a suspension in December, at the end of the semester. Cruse appealed the decision. He said he was banned from Loyola's campus over winter break, but that he was allowed to come back the following semester and attend classes until the student conduct department decided on his appeal. Finally, in February, Loyola notified Cruse that his appeal was rejected and that he would remain suspended through the end of the spring 2025 semester. Cruse said he was removed from his classes and banned from the campus. 'I had already done two months of schoolwork, from January to February,' Cruse said. As a result of the suspension, Cruse also lost his job working the front desk of the school's counseling center that he has had since his freshman year. He said he has had to pick up more hours at his off-campus job at a brewery. The school put Berthelot on probation through May 16. The university accused both of disruptive conduct and failure to comply with administrative instruction because of their involvement in the encampment. The university report cites Berthelot's May 2024 arrest at the encampment for misdemeanor trespassing as proof that Berthelot failed to comply. Cruse was also part of the group arrested. Both students were found not guilty in September 2024. The university also rejected Berthelot's appeal of their probation. Berthelot said probation meant that they cannot officially hold leadership positions in recognized student organizations and study abroad. Berthelot said probation has meant being unable to accept a student award they received last year and running for student government. 'I pay a lot of money to go to Loyola, and I really loved it and enjoyed it my first two years,' Berthelot said. 'But the way that they handle students and … dissenting opinions, it's really upsetting and jarring.' They were able to keep their current on-campus research assistant job and attend classes, but they allege that they were fired from their previous job giving tours of the campus for participating in the encampment. Loyola denied this at the time, saying Berthelot resigned. Berthelot maintains that they were fired. In a response from Loyola, the university told Verite News that federal student privacy law prevents the school from commenting on specific student cases. A university spokesperson did provide information about how the cases are handled and said that every student has the right to appeal conduct decisions. The university also noted that Loyola SDS voluntarily dissolved and that the school is 'committed to ensuring that all students feel safe expressing their perspectives on campus.' Loyola's disciplinary actions run parallel to those taken by Tulane last year. The university disciplined seven students, among them former Tulane SDS members Rory Macdonald and Maya Sanchez, also labeling them as encampment organizers. Tulane officially suspended Tulane SDS; students have continued to run the group off-campus as Together United Students for a Democratic Society. Macdonald told Verite News at the time that Tulane used pictures of them at previous protests and their arrest from the encampment against them. Cruse said Loyola used pictures of him and Berthelot at the encampment against them. Both Cruse and Berthelot said they think Loyola is trying to make an example out of them. 'I think that I'm a fine person to make an example of,' Cruse said. 'I was helping lead this movement.' Berthelot believes the university is trying to alienate them from the students 'so that we can't inspire them, encourage them to fight back,' they said. Berthelot said that being on probation has meant watching every step they take and constantly worrying about messing up for fear of further discipline. 'I feel like it's psychological terrorism, like I'm constantly worried about every step I take, everything I say,' Berthelot said. 'No student should have to fear the university like that. I'm speaking up for what I believe is right.' Berthelot also said it was very upsetting seeing Cruse, a friend, be suspended. Cruse said that he wants to go back to school at Loyola and finish his degree. He said it doesn't make sense to try and transfer elsewhere because of all the credits he has. But he also won't let his suspension stop him from standing up for the things he believes in. 'It's kind of my main purpose in life, honestly,' he said. 'I want to serve the people.' SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE This article first appeared on Verite News New Orleans and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Yahoo
Mother Who Fatally Drugged Her 2 Young Daughters Dies by Suicide in Arizona Prison
A woman convicted of killing her two young daughters in 2021 has died by suicide in prison. According to an official statement from the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR), 38-year-old Retta Cruse died on Feb. 21 "from an apparent act of self-harm by hanging.' The statement said that Cruse was found unresponsive in her housing unit at Perryville Prison and that prison staff 'conducted life-saving measures until paramedics arrived.' However, responding paramedics, in consultation with medical staff, pronounced Cruse dead on the scene. The release further noted that Cruse was admitted to ADCRR custody in 2022 after she was sentenced out of Maricopa County for two counts of first-degree murder. On Sept. 8, 2021, police responded to a report from a man who said that his two children were deceased in his home, per ABC 15 Arizona. Upon entering the Phoenix apartment complex, authorities discovered 9-year-old Aleyah and 4-year-old Royal unresponsive in a bed. Cruse was found barricaded in a bedroom with self-inflicted knife wounds at the time, per the outlet. ABC 15 reported that investigators later determined that Cruse had given her children prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications in order to sedate and overdose them intentionally. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. Cruse was booked on two counts of first-degree murder on Sept. 14, 2021, after being released from the hospital for treatment for her wounds. She later pleaded guilty to the murders in 2022 and was sentenced that same year, per AZ Central. Cruse, who was originally from New Jersey, had recently moved her family to Arizona for 'spiritual reasons,' per a GoFundMe set up to cover the children's burial costs, per At the time, 12 News reported that Cruse had just lost a 'bitter' custody battle over her elder daughter, Aleyah. Court documents stated that Cruse confessed to the crimes and said she committed them specifically because of the custody case, per the outlet. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Yahoo
Killer NJ mom who fatally drugged daughters commits suicide in Arizona prison
A New Jersey mother serving a pair of life sentences in Arizona for the murder of her two young daughters was found dead in her prison cell last week. Retta Cruse committed suicide Feb. 21 at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, a suburb of Phoenix, officials from the Arizona Department of Corrections said in a statement. Cruse — who fatally drugged her children — hanged herself and was unable to be revived, authorities said. Cruse, 38, admitted killing her kids, Aleyah McIntyre, 9, and Royal McIntyre, 4, shortly after moving from Pleasantville, New Jersey, to Arizona in 2021. The girl's father found the bodies of Royal and Aleyah lying on a bed, facing each other, in the family's Phoenix home, on Sept. 9, 2021. A GoFundMe campaign set up to cover the girls' burials noted the family had moved to Arizona for 'spiritual reasons.' Cruse pleaded guilty to the murders, and was sentenced in 2022, reported AZCentral.
