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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Yahoo
Kenton police ask BCI to investigate shooting at Ralphie's
May 21—KENTON — An officer-involved shooting at the Ralphie's Sports Eatery in Kenton is under investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. The shooting occurred in the parking lot outside the sports bar around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday as the Kenton Police Department responded to a report of a stolen black Honda Accord from Lima, according to a news release from Kenton Police Chief Dennis Musser. Jaden Shannon, 18, fled in the stolen vehicle and led officers on a pursuit before crashing into a residence near West North Street and North Detroit Street in Kenton, according to the release. The Dayton teenager then fled on foot and was apprehended in the 100 block of North Market Street, according to the release. Charges are pending against Shannon for assault on a police officer, fleeing and eluding, obstructing official business and receiving or possession of stolen property, Musser said. The release did not identify the officer involved in the shooting, did not specify who exchanged gunfire and did not mention any injuries to the suspect or officer. In the release, Musser said the police department will not release further information about the shooting while it is under investigation. The chief requested assistance from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a division of the Attorney General's Office often called upon by law enforcement agencies to investigate shootings involving law enforcement officers. The Hardin County Sheriff's Office, Kenton Fire Department and Route 31 Towing assisted police with the call. Kenton police engaged in a second vehicle pursuit just after 10 p.m. Tuesday. The driver, identified as 21-year-old Malachi Freeman, of Kenton, fled police as they tried to initiate a reckless driving traffic stop in the 900 block of E. Columbus Street, according to a release from the Kenton Police Department. Freeman struck a pole and crashed into a field near the intersection of Hardin County Road 175 and state Route 53, then fled on foot before he was taken into custody west of state Route 53, according to the release. Musser said charges are pending against Freeman for operating a vehicle under intoxication, felony fleeing and eluding and driving under a previous OVI suspension. Deputies from the Hardin County Sheriff's Office and BKP assisted at the scene. Featured Local Savings
Metro
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Metro
British bloke who can't stop climbing Everest reaches peak for record 19th time
A British climber has broken his own record by climbing Mount Everest for the 19th time. Kenton Cool reached the 29,032ft peak for the 19th time this morning, the most times a non-sherpa has ever achieved that feat. The adventurer from Gloucestershire first trekked up the world's tallest mountain in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since. The 51-year-old was once told he would never walk unaided again after injuring both his feet in an accident. But he has now scaled 551,000ft worth of Everest, and has a host of other incredible records to his name. Kenton's team told Metro he has now reached Camp 2 on his descent down the mountain and should arrive at Base Camp tomorrow. The explorer's first ascent of Everest took place in 2004, but the climbing seasons were cancelled in 2014 and 2015 due to tragedies, and the coronavirus pandemic also stopped him in 2020. This time around he took the most popular Southeast Ridge route to reach Everest's top. This is the standard route to the top pioneered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, when the mountain was first scaled. Since then a number of people have completed the route multiple times. Sherpas, who are local guides and highly skilled climbers, have done it the most. Sherpa Kami Rita holds the record for the greatest number of ascents of Everest at 30, and he is currently on another climb up to the ton in pursuit of number 31. But Kenton holds the record for the most Everest climbs for any non-sherpa, having first claimed the title after his 16th go in 2022. Before setting off on the climb this time around, Kenton told his 93,000 Instagram followers that he had been waiting for days at Everest's base camp for a clear forecast. The explorer said four days ago: 'We finally have a forecast that looks favourable. 'Fingers crossed it all goes well. I am a little concerned about what the crowds may be. 'At last we are moving again. Very exciting times.' Michael and his sherpa Dorji Gyaljen safely made it to Camp 3 two days later. They then reached the summit at 11am Nepalese time (5:15am BST) on May 18. This achievement is not the only record Kenton has broken. He also claims to be the first person to have completed the 'Everest triple crown' – climbing the giant Himalayan mountains Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse in a single season without returning to base camp. More Trending This is all from the man who was told in 1996 that he would never walk unaided again. He had shattered both his heel bones in a rock-climbing accident but defied expectations to get back on his feet. Nepal has issued 468 permits, to the tune of £8,200 each, for the climbing season that ends this month. More than 8,000 people in total have scaled the world's tallest mountain. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Hundreds flock to abandoned sofa after it becomes village's biggest tourist attraction
France 24
18-05-2025
- Sport
- France 24
British climber breaks his own record with 19th Everest summit
More than 50 climbers have reached the summit since the spring climbing season began this month, taking advantage of a brief spell of good weather and typically calmer winds. Mountain guide Cool, 51, first climbed Everest in 2004 and has since had an expedition almost every year taking clients up the world's highest peak. "Kenton summited Everest for the 19th time at 11am Nepalese time (0515 GMT) on Sunday," a post on his Instagram account said. His 15th summit in 2021 tied him with American Dave Hahn for the most summits by a non-Nepali climber, and his summit the following year gave him a solo title. Cool was once told he would not walk unaided again after a rock-climbing accident in 1996 that broke both his heel bones. He told AFP in a 2022 interview after his 16th ascent that his Everest record was "not that amazing" in the context of Nepali climbers' achievements. "I'm really surprised by the interest... considering that so many of the Sherpas have so many more ascents," he said then. Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa, 55, is also attempting to break his own world record for the most Everest summits with his 31st climb. Cool's latest summit comes after at least two people - a Filipino and an Indian climber - died on Mount Everest this week. Nepal has issued 458 permits to mountaineers this season and a city of tents hosting foreign climbers and support staff has built up at the foot of Everest. Most Everest hopefuls are escorted by a Nepali guide, meaning more than 900 climbers will tread the path to the summit this season. Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of adventurers each spring. A climbing boom has made mountaineering a lucrative business since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa made the first ascent in 1953.
New York Times
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
John Peck, Underground Cartoonist Known as The Mad Peck, Dies at 82
John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was accompanied by an ornate eccentricity, died on March 15 in Providence, R.I. He was 82. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was a ruptured aneurysm in his aorta, said his sisters, Marie Peck and Lois Barber. Mr. Peck was not as well known or acclaimed as underground cartoonists like Robert Crumb or Art Spiegelman. That was perhaps in part because his interests were so broad, Gary Kenton, who edited him at Fusion and Creem magazines from the late 1960s into the '70s, said in an interview. 'To me, he would be a Top 10 cartoonist, a Top 10 D.J., a Top 10 rock critic,' Mr. Kenton said. Mr. Peck illustrated one of the first scholarly works on the importance of comic books. And he was perhaps the first cartoonist to write record reviews in four-panel comic-strip form. He also wrote an academic paper in 1983 with the literary commentator Michael Macrone about the evolution of television; its title, 'How J.R. Got Out of the Air Force and What the Derricks Mean,' playfully referenced phallic symbolism in the oil-soaked prime-time soap opera 'Dallas.' Mr. Peck once called it his 'crowning achievement.' His comic-strip music critiques appeared in Fusion, Creem, Rolling Stone and other music publications, and in The Village Voice. He worked in a retro style repurposed from the 1940s and '50s and wrote with sardonic humor ('Is There Life After Meatloaf?'), while offering trustworthy criticism. 'As far as I know, he was the first to do it,' Mr. Kenton said. 'Some people were drawing cartoons with people from the Grateful Dead in it, but John was reviewing the records. He wasn't just making a joke.' Peter Wolf, the former lead singer of the J. Geils Band, for whom Mr. Peck designed a T-shirt that became the group's logo, said in an interview: 'I can't think of anybody else who did it, that 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!' style. For me, he was an original.' Mr. Peck also made concert posters for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and, most notably, for the final concert in the United States by the British supergroup Cream, in Providence in November 1968. The poster featured the band's name in a faux advertisement for unfiltered Camel cigarettes, which Mr. Peck smoked for 50 years. The Providence Journal reported that one of the posters sold for more than $3,000 in 2016. 'To me he was an important figure of that era,' the cartoonist and illustrator Drew Friedman said. 'I thought it was fascinating how he was going back and forth between modern times and the past.' In Providence, Mr. Peck was most popular for a noirish 1978 poster commenting on the city, which at first seemed snarly but was ultimately sanguine. It remains popular. The poster's comic-book-style panels, referencing actual street names, read, in part: 'And Friendship is a one way street. Rich folks live on Power Street. But most of us live off Hope.' Mr. Peck illustrated 'Comix: A History of Comic Books in America' (1971), written by a friend, the historian Les Daniels, which was among the first serious appraisals of the subject. And, in an embrace of low art and a critique of what he viewed as the snobbery of television criticism, Mr. Peck became a TV critic himself. In a 1987 interview with Terry Gross of NPRs 'Fresh Air,' Mr. Peck said he believed that all forms of popular culture were connected: 'When you get down there on the street level or on the consumer level, people don't really make the distinctions between one medium and the other.' In that same interview, Mr. Peck mused about the cultural absurdities and contradictions of television. While humans worried about too much exposure in front of the screen, he dryly noted, the pig named Arnold Ziffel, a porcine couch potato seen on the 1960s sitcom 'Green Acres,' was held in 'very high esteem' for watching TV constantly, 'because watching television is such a breakthrough for an animal.' Mr. Peck's lack of widespread recognition was partly by choice. He sometimes wore disguises and claimed not to have allowed himself to be photographed for half a century. Mr. Wolf, who became a friend, described Mr. Peck affectionately as a phantom in a hat and trench coat, pale and with nicotine-stained fingers, who 'always seemed to appear out of the dark end of the street.' When Mr. Friedman included an illustration of Mr. Peck in his book 'Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix' (2022), he first had to figure out what Mr. Peck looked like, whether that was his real name, and whether he was a single person or a group of people. 'He was the Keyser Söze of underground comics,' Mr. Friedman said, referring to the evasive character at the center of the 1995 movie 'The Usual Suspects.' Mr. Peck acknowledged to The Providence Journal in 2016 that he worked with a clip-art ethos of 'don't draw what you can trace, and don't trace what you can paste,' and that he had 'an inability to draw anything more complex than psychedelic hand lettering.' His ideas relied heavily on retooling the work of Matt Baker, who was among the first Black cartoonists to gain success in the 1940s and '50s, whose characters included scantily dressed female crime fighters and who also worked on romance comics. Such extensive borrowing 'probably put him at odds with some of the more serious underground cartoonists,' said Steven Heller, co-chairman emeritus of the Master of Fine Arts Design program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. 'In the broader picture, now that we're talking about history, it mattered.' John Frederick Peck was born on Nov. 16, 1942, in Brooklyn and grew up in Connecticut. His father, Frank Peck, was assistant superintendent of public schools in Fairfield, Conn., and later held a similar position in Greenwich. His mother, Eleanor Mary (Delavina) Peck, was a teacher. Mr. Peck came to cartooning via an unconventional path, after receiving a degree in electrical engineering in 1967 from Brown University in Providence. Engineering was a career choice more his parents' wish than his own; Mr. Peck instead went underground, forming a publishing collective known as Mad Peck Studios, whose cartoons, rock posters, humorous advertisements and reviews were anthologized in 1987. As a disc jockey with the moniker Dr. Oldie, Mr. Peck, who referred to himself as 'the dean of the University of Musical Perversity,' hosted a weekly radio show in Providence called 'Giant Juke Box' for more than a decade until 1983. He played doo-wop, R&B, early rock 'n' roll and novelty songs, and he became an early proponent of mixtapes. He also partnered for decades with a friend, Jeff Heiser — who also co-hosted Mr. Peck's radio program for five years — in organizing conventions for record collectors. Mr. Peck's sisters are his only immediate survivors. His marriage to Vicky (Oliver) Peck, a humorist who had helped create his cartoons and who went by the comic persona I.C. Lotz., ended in the late 1970s. Mr. Peck scoured flea markets, yard sales, record stores and discount emporiums for records and other cultural ephemera, which occupied two floors of his house, a cluttered domicile that did not always have heat or running water. His record library was said to include roughly 30,000 singles and several thousand albums. Some might have considered him a hoarder, but his friends called him an archivist, because his collections were organized and labeled. 'For a guy who smoked a lot of pot, he didn't forget anything,' Mr. Heiser said. 'He had this stuff down cold.'
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Flu cases spike in Massachusetts: How to protect yourself
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – We are seeing flu case numbers spike upward through the U.S., including here in Massachusetts. New type of non-opioid pain medication approved by FDA The flu season is definitely upon us and unfortunately it is not showing signs of slowing to CDC, the flu activity level in the state remains high and has been for the past few weeks. 'You know, we're definitely seeing more influenza A than anything else. And I think that's not seeing a lot of COVID, although it's out there, but seeing more influenza than anything else at this time,' said D.O. Mark Kenton, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Mercy Medical Center. Health officials are warning about the increase in flu cases spreading rapidly throughout Massachusetts. The CDC reports the week of January 12th to the 18th saw a significant increase in flu activity, with the state being categorized as very high. The Chief of Emergency Medicine at Mercy Medical Center urges people to get their flu shot if you haven't yet. 'I would strongly recommend that you get your vaccination. This flu is making people really sick and really knocking down knocking people down pretty hard,' said Kenton. With the winter cold driving many of us indoors where virus transmission is easier, health officials say the rise in flu cases isn't surprising. 'Every season it's more likely that there is going to be a spike in flu and other gustatory diseases during the winter. There is more flu going around this winter than previous years,' said Dr. Joe Sills, Chief of Adult Emergency Department at Baystate Medical Center. Sills says travel is another possible contributing factor to the number of cases we are seeing. To minimize your risk of the flu, it is recommended to take the following precautions like wash your hands often with soap and water, avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, wearing a mask, and staying home when sick. While the flu is on the rise, health officials also urge caution against other respiratory viruses like RSV, which is also currently very high in the state. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
