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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
‘I left really frustrated' — Mother of Bayles Lake crash victim not feeling heard
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Months of back and forth with the Iroquois County Highway Department have left a mother exhausted. Her daughter was hurt after she crashed into Bayles Lake last year. Amanda Loveless wants more safety in the area to prevent crashes like her daughter's. In December, 18-year-old Elaine Carman-Loveless was driving down County Road 200N in Loda when her SUV hit a patch of ice. It hit the guardrails, continued to slide and ended up in the lake. Carman-Loveless was able to get out of the SUV through the back and survived. 'I'm not the only one,' Carman-Loveless said. 'My mom's the one who expressed concerns.' 'People say enough is enough' — Citizens Utility Board fighting record-breaking gas rate hike Ever since that cold December day, Carman-Loveless and her mother have been asking for new safety equipment to be installed. On Thursday, Loveless went to the ICHD's meeting in Watseka to see if there were any updates on safety measures. This was the first meeting since Iroquois County State's Attorney Michael Quinlan sent a letter to Charles Alt, the Transportation and Highway Committee chairman, and Alan Hardwood, the Iroquois County Highway Engineer. In the letter, Quinlan said the county would not be held liable if they decided to put up new safety equipment. But that doesn't mean they're going up, and Carman-Loveless and her mother feel they aren't being heard. 'It's more hurtful to me than anything to feel very disregard and ignored as another human being' Carman-Loveless said. Assumption City Council votes to shut down cat rescue until they get a main facility The two said they've reached out to the Iroquois County Transportation and Highway Committee multiple times. Loveless has been to all but one meeting this year. At the meeting Thursday morning, she said it reached a boiling point. 'I was told that they had only five minutes,' Loveless said. 'They had somewhere to be, which was really frustrating because I take off work to be at these meetings. But then also, they just stated, 'Hey, wait, we aren't discussing this.'' Loveless said Alt said there were no future plans to discuss the issue. He did not respond to WCIA 3's requests for comment, and Harwood declined to comment. Village of Savoy approves redevelopment contract in downtown plaza project When asked if she had a message for the board, Carman-Loveless had this to say: 'If this was your child or if this was you, you would feel the same way I do and you would be up at night reading every comment that's hurtful towards you,' she said. 'And they would play in your head every time you're driving.' Despite being frustrated, Loveless and her daughter said they're both going to continue to push for changes to be made to the road. Loveless said she wants the county to apply for an IDOT grant to fix county roads. The deadline for that is mid-June. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Yahoo
Skeletal remains of missing son found in backyard tree house days after father dies in scuba accident
Days after an Atlanta man died in a scuba diving accident in Hawaii, authorities said they found the skeletal remains of his son who had gone missing four years prior in a tree house in his backyard. Henry Frantz, 74, died while scuba diving off the coast of Maui on March 10, the Atlanta Pipe Band said in an Instagram post on March 14. 'A founding member of APB in 1970, past Pipe Major, and dedicated member for 55 years, Henry's impact on our band and the piping community was immeasurable,' the group wrote. It is unclear what caused the accident. The Maui Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment to confirm Frantz's death. Frantz's family could not immediately be reached for comment. The Decatur Police Department said in a statement that on March 16, six days after Frantz died, his family found human remains in a backyard tree house at Frantz's home in Decatur, Georgia, about six miles northeast of Atlanta. Beoncia M. Loveless, the director of operations for the Dekalb County Medical Examiner's Office, told NBC News in a phone call on Thursday that the remains belonged to Frantz' son, 32-year-old Henry Hank Frantz. Loveless said that her office has not yet determined a cause of death. Local reports said that son went missing four years prior. A Decatur police spokesperson told NBC News in a phone call that the son was never reported missing to the department. A case for Frantz's son was not in the Department of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified Persons System as of Thursday. Loveless said her office has not yet determined when the 32-year-old died. Although the remains were mostly skeletal, she said that some tissue was still present on the body. This article was originally published on
NBC News
27-03-2025
- NBC News
Skeletal remains of missing son found in backyard tree house days after father dies in scuba accident
Days after an Atlanta man died in a scuba diving accident in Hawaii, authorities said they found the skeletal remains of his of his son who had gone missing four years prior in a tree house in his backyard. Henry Frantz, 74, died while scuba diving off the coast of Maui on March 10, the Atlanta Pipe Band said in an Instagram post on March 14. 'A founding member of APB in 1970, past Pipe Major, and dedicated member for 55 years, Henry's impact on our band and the piping community was immeasurable,' the group wrote. It is unclear what caused the accident. The Maui Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment to confirm Frantz's death. Frantz's family could not immediately be reached for comment. The Decatur Police Department said in a statement that on March 16, six days after Frantz died, his family found human remains in a backyard tree house at Frantz's home in Decatur, Georgia, about six miles northeast of Atlanta. Beoncia M. Loveless, the director of operations for the Dekalb County Medical Examiner's Office, told NBC News in a phone call on Thursday that the remains belonged to Frantz' son, 32-year-old Henry Hank Frantz. Loveless said that her office has not yet determined a cause of death. Local reports said that son went missing four years prior. A Decatur police spokesperson told NBC News in a phone call that the son was never reported missing to the department. A case for Frantz's son was not in the Department of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified Persons System as of Thursday. Loveless said her office has not yet determined when the 32-year-old died. Although the remains were mostly skeletal, she said that some tissue was still present on the body.
Washington Post
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Lydia Loveless is happy to play second fiddle — er, bass — for a spell
Patterson Hood had only one candidate in mind when he needed a duet partner for what was to be the first single from 'Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams,' the Drive-By Truckers co-front man's first solo album in 12.5 years. The singer was Lydia Loveless. The song was 'A Werewolf and a Girl,' an unsentimental, down-tempo reflection Hood had written in 2021 about a formative encounter with his high school sweetheart some 40 years earlier. Loveless might seem like a surprising choice to sing the part of Hood's long-ago partner for several reasons, not least that the prolific Ohio singer-songwriter is Hood's junior by 26 years. But she'd been a fan of the Drive-By Truckers, Hood's hard-touring, critically adored rock outfit, since she was 16, and on friendly terms with Hood since she'd opened some dates on the tour for Hood's prior solo record, 2012's 'Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance.' Hood was confident that given their mutual respect, and Loveless's lyrics that address sex and relationships in her own frank terms, she was the singer for the job. Loveless tracked her vocal remotely, the day after Hood sent her the song. 'I think he was impressed by how quickly I got it finished,' she says. That unstudied, extemporaneous quality gives the recording a visceral impact, and Loveless's brassy, Loretta Lynn-inflected voice contrasts with Hood's raspier, more conversational instrument better than you might've guessed. When I describe the youthful experience addressed in 'A Werewolf and a Girl' as seminal, Loveless jumps in to say, 'Literally!' 'It was funny because he was like, 'I don't know if you're going to find this song creepy, because it's kind of personal and a little sexual,'' Loveless recalls. 'And I was like, 'Oh, whatever.' It wasn't until after the song came out and I was listening to it that I was like, 'Oh, wow, this does go pretty deeply into some stuff.' But I didn't even think of it while I was working on it.' Loveless, whose most recent album of new music was 2023's 'Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again,' will open 14 dates on Hood's 'Exploding Trees' tour, including a weekend stand at D.C.'s cozy Atlantis, with solo sets accompanying herself on guitar and piano. Last year, she put out 'Something Else,' which rearranged the songs from her 2014 album 'Somewhere Else' as piano ballads, so we'll probably hear several of those. The Columbus, Ohio-based roots rocker is gearing up to write her next full-length, and in the meantime, she's releasing a new song each month on Bandcamp. Last month, a new Loveless ballad called 'Accolades' followed January's release, a cover of Irving Berlin's 1923 torch song 'What'll I Do.' She's also playing bass in the Sensurrounders, the band Hood has put together to back his headlining sets, which means learning a lot of new material. (Sensurround was a short-lived precursor to modern-day movie surround sound, a floor-rattling novelty rolled out with the 1974 disaster film 'Earthquake.') Bass was Loveless's instrument way back when she was playing in a band with her dad and her sisters, starting at age 13. She also played bass on much of her 2020 album 'Daughter,' but it's been a long time since she worked as a bassist in front of a paying crowd. She says she's learning the songs in a way her old piano teacher used to scold her for — playing by ear, rather than using charts. In her recollection, stepping in as Hood's bass player was her idea. 'I was pretty buzzed,' she says, laughing. 'I think it was Hemingway who said, 'Always do sober what you say you'll do drunk, and it will teach you to keep your mouth shut.' But I don't know, I'm pretty stoked about it.' March 22 at 7:30 p.m. and March 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the Atlantis, 2047 Ninth St. NW. $35 (Saturday sold out).
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
East Texas schools, doctors see surge in illnesses
TYLER, Texas (KETK) – Since last Fall, 12 million flu infections have led to more than 6,600 deaths in the United States, according to the CDC. These staggering numbers are being felt in East Texas classrooms as well. RSV cases in children, elderly on the rise in East Texas East Texas doctors are seeing a surge of people come through their offices and schools said they're seeing a dip in attendance. 'It started gradually and then has just hit us really, really hard,' Director of public relations for Palestine ISD, Larissa Loveless said. 'Recently we've seen a drop about a 5% drop.' Loveless said the school's attendance typically sits at 96% but in the past few weeks has hovered at around 90%. 'We've had everything from intestinal stomach issues to cold allergy, flu-like symptoms and flu as well,' Loveless said. Dr. Johnathan David with East Texas Community Clinic said they're seeing several serious visits and that high numbers might stick around. 'This is the peak that we've seen so far. That could change and the peak could continue to rise in cases,' Davis said. 'At least in our local clinic here, we're seeing more acute visits right now than we have in previous months.' UT Tyler celebrates School of Nursing's 50th Anniversary They're trying to keep spots open in their day for cases of type 'A' and 'B' flu, RSV and the common cold. 'We try to help patients out at a pretty quick turnaround, to get them in and out of the clinic, to get treated for these illnesses, especially in this season,' David said. With three known illnesses going around, schools like Palestine ISD can only do their best to stay ahead of a surge of sickness to keep everyone healthy during the sick season 'One of our elementary campuses, our kindergarten and first grade campuses, have requested particular disinfectants being sprayed in their building and campus administration,' Loveless said. Other schools in East Texas are also taking steps during this season to help slow the spread of germs. Trinidad ISD closed their doors on Friday to give time for additional cleaning and Carlisle ISD sent messages home to parents warning them to keep their children home if they are sick. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
