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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Yahoo
Ruskin neighbors had long called for safety changes prior to crash that killed 4
RUSKIN, Fla. (WFLA) — A group of Ruskin neighbors said they've repeatedly called on Hillsborough County for safety improvements after dealing with non-stop speeding and crashes in their comes after a deadly vehicle crash near Shell Point Road West and 32nd Street Northwest. Surveillance video shows the horrifying moments a car blew through the intersection and into Julie Coleman's home, killing the four adults inside the vehicle. The community is asking what it will take for some speed bumps or a stop sign, and the couple who live in the home that's now destroyed said they have no other option than to leave. 'God doesn't want us here,' said Coleman. 'First, the house floods, it's never flooded, and then this happens, and people have died.' Thankfully, Coleman and her husband weren't home when it happened. Their home was already undergoing renovations after it was flooded by Hurricane Helene, and now it's deemed uninhabitable.'There's been deaths,' said Coleman. 'Four people have died, and all we need was some stop signs.'Coleman said Hillsborough County needs to make Shell Point Road safer for those who there because it's been incident after incident. Coleman recalled another crash that happened just months ago.'Somebody else came through that intersection and flipped his car when his car hit the guidewires and his body landed in my driveway,' she vehicle from Sunday night's incident finally stopped when it smashed into her neighbor's car.'We've made this evident to the county, we've told them something is going to happen,' said Mark Larson, Coleman's neighbor. 'What's it going to take? It happened last night.'Emails show Larson has repeatedly called for the county to take action along this road since 2019.'We're asking for them to slow people down,' said Larson. 'We're asking for Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office presence. We're asking for a three-way stop, speed bumps. We're asking for something to help.'But with no solution, the Colemans are forced out, not knowing what is next.'We love it here, we've made so many good friends, but we're out of here,' said Coleman. There has been no word on what led up to the crash, the victim's identities or how fast the car was traveling. We have requested information from Hillsborough County, the Sheriff's Office and Fire Rescue, but the agencies are closed for Memorial Day. 8 On Your Side will stay on this story as neighbors demand safety improvements. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hindustan Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Delhiwale: Ruskin, the Delhi walla
Ruskin Bond, the writer who lives in the Himalayan foothills, turned 91 this week. Here are 9+1 nuggets on his connections with our Delhi. 1. Although Ruskin's literature is mostly set in the Dehradun-Mussoorie foothills, his childhood was briefly spent in Delhi, during the war years, from 1942 to 44. 2. Following the separation of his parents, little Ruskin moved to the capital to be with his beloved stamp-collector father, who worked in the Codes and Cyphers section at the Air Headquarters of the Royal Air Force. His office was near India Gate. 3. The baap-beta team initially lived in the so-called Air Force hutment, close to Humayun Tomb. (They later lived in Atul Grove Road, Hailey Road and Scindia House.) In peak summer, the mashak walla would arrive daily at Ruskin's residence with his goat-skin mashak to sprinkle water at the khus-khus screens that covered the doors and windows. 4. In those long-ago Delhi days, little Ruskin's father would take him to movies in the Connaught Place cinemas, and treat him to pastries at the Wenger's. Walking about in the summertime Delhi sun inevitably gave the boy a 'roasted look,' prompting street loafers to tease him as 'Lal Bandar.' 5. In 1944, Ruskin's father suddenly died in Calcutta. Ruskin was 10. The tragedy coincided with the end of his first stint with Delhi. 6. Ruskin's second stint in Delhi was as a young freelance writer, when he lived alone in the 'treeless' neighbourhood of Rajouri Garden. Vast agricultural fields then existed near his house. Ruskin would often walk into those fields, 'finding old wells, irrigation channels, camels and buffaloes, and sighting birds and small creatures that no longer dwelt in the city.' 7. Like a modern-day flaneur, Ruskin regularly walked through the city, from Rajouri Garden to Connaught Place, from Dilli Gate to Chandni Chowk, and from Ajmeri Gate to India Gate. In the India Gate grounds, he would lounge on the grass, eating jamuns. 8. One of Ruskin's books is titled The Roads to New Delhi. The cover shows an illustration of Regal Cinema, which stopped screening films in 2017. 9. A time was when Ruskin frequently visited Delhi, undertaking day-long road trip on car from his home in the hills. He was always taken in by the window scenes of the countryside that unfolded on the highway to Delhi— 'the sugarcane being harvested, children bathing in small canals, the serenity of mango groves...' 10. During his Delhi soujourns, Ruskin is often sighted at the India International Centre. One evening, in 2018, he was sitting alone at an outdoor table, digging into a bowl of onion pakoras (see photo), looking as lonely as his lonely childhood that he has described so poignantly in his many books. PS: The material in this piece is primarily fished out from Ruskin Bond's books, along with conversations he has had in the past with interviewers, including this reporter.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Tampa Racial Reconciliation Committee seeks more support from city to help Black community
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The City of Tampa's Racial Reconciliation Committee (RRC) is working to address disparities in Tampa's Black community. The committee sent an editorial out on April 30 accusing the city of wasting time and a lack of engagement, responsiveness, and commitment to their work. 'That betterment and progress cannot happen without collaboration and that collaboration involves the city leaders who appointed, supported, and endorsed this committee's work. It's time to get to work… Anything else is simply… a waste of time,' said members of the RRC in the editorial. After 8-month ordeal with FEMA, Ruskin couple receives flood insurance payout During a meeting Tuesday, they reviewed their recommendations for the policy areas, which sparked heated comments about what's been done so far. 'We need to come up with something beyond policies. Black communities need reassurance. It's not up there. I don't feel it,' said one committee member. 'The city has (a) $1.9 billion budget — I'd like to recommend the Black community get 25% so we can start taking care of some of our issues.' They are focusing on five areas: economic development, opportunities for youth, ignored history, returning citizens, and affordable housing. Allison Hewitt is a third generation Tampa resident and economic development specialist who spoke at the meeting. 'Right now, I am firmly convinced that between the city council and the mayor, we are going to gentrify the core of African American history in east Tampa,' Hewitt said. 'How do we put services there to negate those hotspots, to negate those youth opportunities rather than be arrested and they can't have a job because they've become returning citizens.' She gave the committee questions she felt they should ask the city to get the appropriate data in order to develop and strengthen their recommendations. The committee said they've already sent in questions, and in return, they claim the city isn't giving them the support or resources they need to do the job. The city had staff at the meeting Tuesday night. 'The mayor did approve to supply logistics and has opened her arms to any data. We expected to see motions towards that data,' said Mayor Jane Castor's Chief of Staff John Bennett. But the committee argued some of the data they received was uninterpreted, leaving them making recommendations in the dark. 'If your staff had a hard time with data, imagine how it was for us,' said a committee member. 'Let's see what we can do to get it done. We need to find a way to close the gap. We don't want this to be a missed opportunity. We do need measurable outcomes. But it begins with making sure we have alignment,' Bennett said. Shortly after speaking, some of the city staff left the meeting, which did not sit well with some of the RRC members. 'It seems disingenuous, and it feels insulting,' said Christopher Harris, a committee member. The RRC said they need clarity on the data to support and develop their recommendations. They motioned to have more meetings to get the data and hopefully finalize their plan. The city sent this statement before the meeting: 'The administration was clear from the start that we would provide any resources, records, staff, and information that the council requested, and we have. We have provided funding for a facilitator, we have offered subject matter experts, and so on. The committee recently asked the administration to complete a service gap analysis that seemed to be the very purpose and reason for the creation of the committee. Completing a gap analysis and making policy recommendations to the administration is more appropriate for the community and committee to do than the administration, but we are very happy to assist.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
03-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
FlyUp 417 Bike Park park reopening after 'stressful' A417 works
Owners of a bike park say they are excited to be reopening after an "incredibly stressful" FlyUp 417 bike park at Witcombe, Gloucestershire, has faced extended closures due to works on the nearby A417 Missing Link project. National Highways are building a new dual carriageway to replace an accident hotspot, close to the Air Balloon Foxley, A417 project director for National Highways, said they had worked to "minimise as far as practically possible" the impact on the bike park. Mr Foxley said the majority of the works on the FlyUp estate had now been completed, with seasonal landscape planting due to take place later in the Ruskin, 46, who owns the bike park with her 48-year-old husband Simon, said she had "mixed emotions" on the reopening."Obviously we're so excited to see customers back on the hillside, doing what we opened the place for - getting people back on their bikes. "It's just been incredibly stressful." Ms Ruskin said they had carried out site upgrades during the closures, including new toilets and will be doing other redevelopments. National Highways started the major A417 Missing Link scheme in March, building a new road scheme between Gloucester, Cirencester and Swindon to reduce traffic congestion. The authority said the revamped route was needed after "frequent and unpredictable" congestion and serious Ms Ruskin said she the new access road, which she described as a single track with a blind corner and built as part of the project, has "not been designed in the best way"."We do need people to be aware of all the signage around the site and be patient coming in and understand we have had no say in their design," she said.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
For 2nd time, $30K FEMA national flood insurance check ‘not good'
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Ruskin couple wants to know why a $30,000 settlement check from the National Flood Insurance Program, administered by FEMA, failed to clear their bank a second time. Robert Paul and his wife first called Better Call Behnken a week ago, saying their home was a total loss after Hurricane Helene and their insurance claim was quickly approved. The first settlement check of $30,000 didn't arrive until March, and then the check wasn't good. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now After calls from Consumer Investigator Shannon Behnken, the Pauls said they were told there was an issue because NFIP had been in the middle of changing banks. They were told to try again to cash the check. Once again, their bank told the check wasn't good. 'When we resubmitted it, it again came back as no good, so now the bank has told us they will not resubmit that,' Paul said. 'They're going to need a new check. How am I literally out of the tens of thousands of people that filed claims probably, I'm assuming, as far as the damage went. How am I the only person that this happened to?' Attorney for boater involved in Clearwater ferry crash explains client's side of events A FEMA spokesperson said they cannot comment on this case, citing privacy concerns. Meanwhile, Paul said he was told Tuesday afternoon that a new check is on its way and should arrive later this week. The Pauls have been unable to live in their home since the September hurricane and have been unable to begin repairs without the insurance settlement. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
