Monday News Brief

From the Sheriff’s Report: The following subjects were arrested by the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office during the 50 Cent concert on 8/5/23:

Terrance L. Falk age 24 of Woodsmeadow Lane, Rochester, NY arrested for Assault 2nd after allegedly punching a female knocking her unconscious. Terrance was arrested and held for CAP Court.

The following six individuals were issued Appearance Tickets to appear in Darien Court on 9/5/23 @ 4 PM to answer the charges.

Eliecer Angulo age 27 of Haddon Rd Rochester, NY arrested for Criminal Trespass 3rd after allegedly kicking over a fence to enter restricted area of the venue.

Stephen J. Hunter age 38 of Demunn Rd. Beaver Dam, NY arrested for Harassment 2nd after allegedly pushing and fighting with Darien Lake Security.

Tyrell T. Lynch age 35 of 10th St. Niagara Falls, NY arrested for Harassment 2nd after allegedly pushing a Darien Lake Security Officer.

Megan L. Kendall age 34 of Lilac St Buffalo, NY arrested for Obstructing Governmental Administration 2nd after allegedly interfering with Deputies making an arrest.

Jayson P. Lazan age 46 of Folger St. Buffalo, NY arrested for Harassment 2nd after allegedly punching another concert patron.

Giovanni E. Paige-Mota age 21 of Glide St. Rochester, NY arrested for Obstructing Governmental Administration 2nd, Harassment 2nd and Disorderly Conduct after allegedly causing a disturbance and then fighting with Deputies.

 

The Genesee County Health Department has scheduled another anti-rabies clinic at the Genesee County Fairgrounds on Thursday, August 10th from 4:00pm to 6:30pm. Animals must be at least three months old, leashed or crated and accompanied by an adult who can control the animal at all times. The limit is four pets per car. There is no charge for the vaccine, but voluntary donations are accepted. For more information, call 344-2580. Or, visit GOHealthNY.org

 

A Hamlin woman with a long history of stealing cars and who has pending robbery charges in Monroe County was arrested late last week for stealing a car in Kendall. 33-year-old Kaila Rivera was charged with grand larceny for the May 2022 theft of a car. She was arraigned and committed to jail pending a court appearance. Rivera’s long criminal history includes stealing a car in Ogden in 2015 and also forgery and robbery in 2016. She served a two-year prison term for that conviction. Last September, Rivera allegedly went on a crime spree, which included the robbery of a gas station and then fleeing in a stolen car. She was jailed briefly and released. The next day, Rivera stole $100 worth of items from a store in Gates and sped off in a stolen truck, nearly hitting a police investigator and bicyclist. She was later found at a motel in another stolen vehicle.

 

You may have noticed an increase in the price at the pump over the weekend. In Batavia the average price per gallon of regular gas went up by at least 13 cents in the last week. As of this morning, we’re paying $3.83 per gallon; that’s up 22 cents from a month ago but is still 62 cents cheaper than it was a year ago today. The state average is 3.90 and the national average is 3.83. Lots of people traveling and the rising price of oil are to blame for the increase. Triple A says that the price of oil has peaked and will drop off as people travel less. Hopefully, that means the prices will start to come down again soon.

 

 

Nurses at Rochester General Hospital are back to work following a two-day strike. They walked off the job last Thursday after their union and Rochester Regional Health couldn’t work out a new contract. The labor stoppage ended on Saturday morning and negotiations on a new agreement are ongoing. There are no plans at the moment for another strike, but the union says it’s always a possibility.

 

It looks like the Buffalo Bills could have one of their top defensive players on the field when the regular season starts next month. Jordan Phillips has been activated from the physically unable to perform list, and is now taking part in training camp at Saint John Fisher University. Phillips had been on the sidelines as he recovered from offseason surgery. Last year, the defensive tackle had one-and-a-half sacks in 12 games, but was hampered by a shoulder injury.

 

 

ELSEWHERE…

 

It’s now just two days and counting until the drawing for the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot. It’s been almost four months since the last Mega Millions winner and, after Friday night’s drawing, the jackpot rolled up to $1.55 billion. That would make it the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history and the 3rd biggest in U.S. lottery history. The lump sum payment is estimated at more than $757 million. The next drawing is Tuesday at 11 p.m. Eastern Time. Please play responsibly. ALSO: A website has been launched that is going to allow New Yorkers to buy lottery tickets online. Jackpot.com gives Empire State residents the opportunity to purchase tickets for popular games such as Mega Millions and Powerball without having to go to the store. People can present their tickets to be scanned on a phone or tablet, and if they win, they can transfer their prize money to a linked bank account. The CEO of jackpot.com says the hope is this site will allow more people to play the lottery.

 

A Los Angeles Lakers jersey worn by Wilt Chamberlain is going up for auction later this month. Sotheby’s officials believe the home gold uniform worn by the late NBA legend will sell for about $4 million. Chamberlain wore the jersey during Game 5 of the 1972 NBA Finals between the Lakers and New York Knicks. That was the night the Lakers clinched their first championship since moving to Los Angeles in 1959. The seven-foot-one 275-pound center was part of a Lakers team that won 33 consecutive games during the 1971-1972 season — an NBA record that still stands. The jersey is currently on display at Sotheby’s Beverly Hills gallery. It will go up for bids online from August 28th to September 27th.

 

Over a third of Americans don’t believe they’ll ever make enough money to retire; that’s according to a recent study conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. They found that roughly 36% of working Americans have little or no confidence in their financial security if they retired.

 

 

The CDC says all infants younger than eight months should now get a new antibody shot to protect against RSV. New CDC director Mandy Cohen has already signed off on the recommendation, which will add the RSV vaccine to the CDC’s childhood Immunization schedule. The CDC will also recommend a second dose of the vaccine for certain infants with underlying health issues.

 

 

Elon Musk says his ‘X’ social media platform will pay legal bills for people he says have been treated unfairly by their employers for posting or liking something on the site formerly known as Twitter. He made that pledge in a post on Saturday. Musk didn’t give any details on how X users could claim money for their legal fees.

 

 

Today is Monday, August 7th, the 219th day of the year.

August 7 in history…

…In 1782, during the Revolutionary War, United States General George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart. It was re-established in 1932. The decoration honors the efforts of members of the U.S. armed forces wounded or killed in battle with opposing armed forces.

 

 

 

…In 1882, the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky broke out. The story behind the feud is provided below. Scroll to the bottom of today’s News Brief page to take a look.

 

 

 

 

…In 1974, French daredevil Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

 

 

 

 

…In 2005, veteran ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings lost his battle with cancer, just four months after announcing he had been stricken with the illness. The 67-year-old Jennings, a longtime smoker, died at his home in New York. Jennings had been the anchor of “World News Tonight” since 1983 and was with ABC for over 40 years. During his time at the network, Jennings covered a variety of major international stories including the Olympic hostage crisis in Munich in 1972 and the war in Vietnam.

 

 

AND NOW…let’s play ‘Family Feud’!

Hatfields and McCoys, two American Appalachian mountaineer families who, with their kinfolk and neighbors, engaged in a legendary feud that attracted nationwide attention in the 1880s and ’90s and prompted judicial and police actions, one of which drew an appeal up to the U.S. Supreme Court (1888).

The Hatfields were headed by William Anderson (“Devil Anse”) Hatfield (1839–1921), and the McCoys by Randolph (“Rand’l”) McCoy (1839?–1921), each of whom fathered 13 children (some sources claim 16 for McCoy). The families lived on opposite sides of a border stream, the Tug Fork—the McCoys in Pike county, Kentucky, and the Hatfields in Logan county (or Mingo county, formed from a portion of Logan county in 1895), West Virginia. Each had numerous kinfolk and allies in the respective counties in which they lived.
The origins of the feud are obscure. Some attribute it to hostilities formed during the American Civil War, in which the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates, others to Rand’l McCoy’s belief that a Hatfield stole one of his hogs in 1878. However, although animosities had built up and occasional fights had broken out, the first major bloodletting did not occur until 1882, when Ellison Hatfield was mortally shot in a brawl with McCoys and, in revenge, the Hatfields kidnapped and executed three McCoy brothers—Tolbert, Phamer, and Randolph, Jr.

These murders sharpened the backwoods warfare, and thereafter Hatfields and McCoys repeatedly ambushed and killed one another. Hatfields arrested in their home county and McCoys arrested in their home county were invariably released or acquitted of their deeds because of their respective local support and influence. Fighting reached a climax in 1888. On New Year’s Day a group of Hatfields led by Jim Vance attacked the home of patriarch Rand’l McCoy, missing him but shooting dead a son and a daughter and burning his houses. In retaliation, a posse of McCoys and neighbors, headed by a Pike county deputy sheriff, made successive raids across the border into West Virginia, killing Vance and at least three others, battling with a West Virginia posse, and eventually rounding up nine of the Hatfield clan for indictment and trial in Kentucky. West Virginia filed suit in federal court, charging kidnapping and lawlessness; Kentucky defended the abduction; and newspapers all over the country began carrying front-page stories of the feud and sending in reporters. Finally, in May 1888, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled (in Plyant Mahon v. Abner Justice, jailer of Pike County, Ky.) that Kentucky had the legal right to detain the accused for trial. The trials, later in the year, resulted in one sentence of death by hanging and eight sentences of imprisonment.

Although there were flare-ups thereafter, notably in 1896–97, the feuding gradually abated and had ended by the second decade of the 20th century. The Hatfield-McCoy legend was embellished by a brief love affair about 1880 between Johnson (“Johnse”) Hatfield and Rose Anna McCoy—an affair that was opposed and eventually broken up by the McCoys. Newspapers turned it into a Romeo-and-Juliet romance.