Your request has been blocked by our security system due to potential security concerns Please contact us for assistance Covering stories that matter to the community IMPERIAL COUNTY — With Assembly member Eduardo Garcia it’s wide open for the 36th Assembly District Current employment: Development manager for local health clinics and a grant writer for Tribes Political experience: President of the Coachella Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees serving a fifth term on the board of education that includes portions of both Riverside and Imperial counties Other affiliations/Memberships/Board positions: Joey Acuña’s long history of community involvement includes serving on the board of multiple nonprofit organizations He’s a founding member of the Coachella Valley Education Foundation and he served on the Imperial Irrigation District’s Power Consumers Advisory Committee I’m running for State Assembly to fight for positive change and make sure the residents of our district have access to affordable housing I’ll listen to residents and work hard every day to make California more affordable and improve the quality of life in our Imperial County communities.  I believe that I have the experience needed to deliver results and a fair share of funding for Imperial County.  I’m proud to have the support of groups representing local firefighters I’m also endorsed by leaders throughout Imperial County and his family includes four children: RJ (31) Current employment/Employment history: United States Marine Corps combat veteran and small business owner Political experience: California’s economy is on the wrong track and career politicians are part of the problem I’ve learned there’s no such thing as a Democrat or Republican in a foxhole I’ll bring this same leadership to Sacramento — ready to work with anyone who wants to lower grocery prices keep our communities safe and deliver results for working Californians Other affiliations/memberships/board positions: Rotary Club | Marine Corps Counterintelligence Association | VFW | Board of Directors – California State University Advancement Board (Present) | Board of Directors – Desert Community Foundation (Present) | Salvation Army Advisory Board | Salvation Army Veterans Easy Access Program Steering Committee Cathedral City (Present) | Veterans Advisory Committee in Homeland Security & Emergency Management – National University Reasons for running and top issues: After enlisting in the Marine Corps I served our country for 20 years and deployed overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan Californians are facing rising costs and struggling to get ahead and eliminate taxes on food so people can afford to feed themselves and their families but this time my mission is to protect the American dream and make California a better place to live and website in this browser for the next time I comment For advertising and submission of legal notices or inquiries email: info@calexicochronicle.com 1. BIRMINGHAM (8-6). Impressive one-two pitching duo in Allen Olmos and freshman Carlos Acuna. 2. VENICE (10-1). Gondoliers are headed to Western League title. 3. BELL (9-2). Defending champs are getting their pitching in order. 4. EL CAMINO REAL (8-5). Holding down second place in West Valley League. 5. SUN VALLEY POLY (9-5). Headed to showdown games with Sylmar in Valley Mission League. 6. SYLMAR (6-3). Pitching will keep Spartans in contention. 7. CLEVELAND (6-6). Joshua Pearlstein is having big season hitting. 8. BANNING (7-4). Marine League’s first-place team. 9. GARFIELD (8-2). Won four straight Eastern League games. 10. CHATSWORTH (6-6-1). Beware of Chancellors in March. Eric Sondheimer is the prep sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has been honored seven times by the California Prep Sportswriters Assn. for best prep sports column. High School Sports Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map who both have only one more year of team control Sources: Mets have spoken to the Padres about Dylan Cease and Michael King who are available via tradeBraves, among others, are also interested in both armsDetails: https://t.co/66zarVrJ63 Each starter will likely cost a lot to acquire specifically Cease after the hurler finished fourth in the NL Cy Young race in 2024 the Padres are asking teams for at least three top 25 prospects for the 29-year-old Cease But what if the Mets decide they want to load up the front of their rotation before Opening Day Landing Cease would be the way they could do so in order to bring in a bonafide ace The NL East rival Philadelphia Phillies just traded for lefty starter Jesus Luzardo from the Miami Marlins to pair with Zack Wheeler who has two years of team control remaining The reigning World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers have Roki Sasaki The Atlanta Braves have taken a bit of a hit after losing Max Fried to the Yankees Frankie Montas and Clay Holmes in a six-man rotation That looks like a unit that can frustrate opposing hitters throughout the regular season and matchup well against the Phillies the Mets could potentially create a package by selling high on the exciting Luisangel Acuna who overcame a rough season at the plate in Triple-A Syracuse to ignite energy and provide value in a brief stint in the majors in September while filling in for an injured Francisco Lindor That's not an easy task for a 22-year-old who had zero big-league experience The Mets are realistic that Acuna's success in the majors was a small sample size (14 games but he is a smooth and versatile fielder and brings blistering speed to the base paths They also have made it clear that they expect him to play a big role this upcoming season and were impressed with what he showed in the stretch run in 2024 Acuna's impact helped the Mets clinch a Wild Card berth in a tight race filling in nicely for Lindor for a little over a week Carlos Mendoza says Luisangel Acuña will have a "huge role" on the 2025 Mets➡️ Tri-State @Cadillac pic.twitter.com/O7BVutSvB1 people who are familiar with the thinking of Padres head of baseball operations and GM A.J Preller believe Acuna is the type of player he would love to acquire The Padres don't have a long-term shortstop given the departure of Ha-Seong Kim to the Tampa Bay Rays as well as Xander Bogaerts being a better fit defensively at second base Acuna could very well be the budget constrained Padres' Opening Day shortstop especially if San Diego is able to trade Luis Arraez and stick Jake Cronenworth at first base The change in Padres' ownership power following the death of Peter Seidler has caused a major ripple effect and has created a major shift in payroll flexibility and willingness to spend who is known to be aggressive when it comes to building a roster doesn't like to rebuild and Acuna has brief major league success big stage and high-leverage experience and he is also the younger brother of Braves MVP right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr It'd be a tough call to ship out a young controllable position player that can be electrifying at his best in Luisangel Acuna in exchange for a rental starter in Cease this is Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns' second year in Queens and he didn't draft nor acquire Acuna former GM Billy Eppler did in the trade that sent Max Scherzer to the Texas Rangers at the 2023 MLB trade deadline Stearns could decide to sell-high on Acuna and maybe package a controllable major league arm such as Tylor Megill or Jose Butto outfielder/DH Starling Marte and possibly an additional lower level prospect for Cease Cease is set to make $13.75 million in 2025 and Marte is making $20.75 million The Mets are willing to pay down a portion of Marte's salary in a trade and have already attempted to deal him this offseason the Mets could send an additional $7 million at least to offset the players' deals The Padres need a left fielder after Jurickson Profar signed with the Braves Selling a controllable asset with high upside in Acuna is a tough call for a one-year rental but there could be regression at the plate Acuna had a poor season offensively in Triple-A Syracuse The Mets and Padres line up well as trade partners and San Diego like the Mets' farm system Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor has the ear of team owner Steve Cohen and told management that he wants free agent first baseman Pete Alonso back, per Jon Heyman of The New York Post Bringing back Alonso and acquiring Cease would put the finishing touches on an all-in blueprint after landing Juan Soto in December the Mets probably feel like they have enough pitching and depth to survive the first-half of the season If they feel they have a real shot to win a title by July or their rotation is dealing with injuries a deal at the trade deadline for Cease on an expiring contract for less than a full-season would cost less in pieces for New York a trade for Cease appears to be unlikely at this point the Mets will have more flexibility to make a trade elsewhere if first base is addressed The Mets have been considering Orioles' Ryan Mountcastle and Tigers' Spencer Torkelson as first base options on the trade market. They also checked in on Rays first baseman Yandy Diaz recently Mets have checked in on Rays 1B Yandy Diaz, sources tell Mets On SIPlus a minor Pete Alonso update, Ryan Brasier interest, Mountcastle, Torkelson, Blue Jays detailshttps://t.co/8SqSUmiPdd The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Sports Illustrated or its affiliates All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER A new American-Italian restaurant in Manila Carlo’s combines vitality with old-world charm and tempts with vodka pizza and Aperol spritz ‘We wanted to capture the unique hospitality that Italian immigrants brought to New York and which then developed its own distinctive soul,’ says Acuna The restaurant’s location on the ground floor of a modern commercial building downtown persuaded him that the first step was to set the scene with a sense of vitality and add an unexpected touch of old-world charm with a dark raw walnut floor and sheer curtains trimmed with woven green ribbon Acuna’s signature attention to a strong design narrative shows in the retro Italian interior and its polished contemporary edge; the lush colour palette features rich burgundies and mustard touches that recreate the typical textures and colours of Little Italy’s eateries The designer found skilled local artisans for the medley of material finishes The ceiling lamps and sconces illuminating the dining area were custom-made locally while the original ‘Akari’ paper lamps are a nod to the owner’s Japanese roots All graphics are by up-and-coming studio Kix Suarez The 190 sq m rectangular space is arranged in four zones with subtle shifts in décor that identify each area and create a natural flow The main dining room is typically Italian with an oak coffee-to-cocktail bar To the rear of the restaurant, banquettes provide more intimate dining, and are framed with a geometric motif in three shades of burgundy. Recycled PET fibre wallpaper from Omexco in Belgium adds a playful touch to the semi-private dining room escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox An American influence adds a strong shock of colour in the works of art by contemporary artists Mr Star City and Nicasio Fernandez all reflecting Carlo’s creative character cohesive place that recreates the authentic spirit of Italy infused with a New York twist – together with Manila all-day destination’s menu also stays true to its Italian roots ranging from a tempting selection of frothy morning cappuccinos to appetising classic antipasti and cocktails – and the 18-inch vodka pizza and Aperol spritz come highly recommended Carlo's is located at Asian Century Center, Manila, @carlos.philippines editor and consultant specialising in architecture and design She has written and contributed to over ten books including award-winning monographs on art collector and designer Alan Chan and on architect William Lim's Asian design philosophy She has also authored books on architect André Fu on Turkish interior designer Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu and on Beijing-based OPEN Architecture's most significant cultural projects across China On Monday, Travis County District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum released her official ruling in Acuña v. City of Austin, finding that City Council violated prior court orders and state law when it approved three major zoning ordinances in 2022 The court also found that one ordinance challenged by plaintiffs is still valid because of a state law preventing challenges of municipal ordinances after three years All of the ordinances were designed to allow more residential units in areas not previously considered appropriate for housing But Council will have to start over in enacting the Vertical Mixed Use Ordinance as well as the Residential in Commercial Development program and the Compatibility Ordinance was approved in 2019 and remains in effect Although the attorney for the plaintiffs, Doug Becker, had suggested the judge would penalize the city for violating the previous ruling Monday’s order makes no reference to penalties – a victory for the city Becker is still seeking $150,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs The judge will consider that request at a future hearing “Plaintiffs’ attorneys now are assessing the legality of the city’s rushed passage last Thursday of Council Member (Leslie) Pool’s anti-single-family zoning ordinance.” Although property owners filed 16,000 protests against the ordinance those protests were insufficient to overcome the 9-2 vote in favor of the Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment (HOME) initiative Pool points out that not only did the city send written notice to every property owner but Council and the Planning Commission each held separate hearings as well as a joint hearing on the ordinance Pool and her colleagues on Council plan to move ahead with an additional set of changes to the Land Development Code to make it easier to develop more housing is seeking more funding with an eye toward challenging the city on these new regulations And we’re honored you look to us for serious You know a strong community needs local and dedicated watchdog reporting Now will you take the powerful next step and support our nonprofit news organization Jo Clifton is the Politics Editor for the Austin Monitor Austin City Council: The Austin City Council is the body with legislative purview over the City of Austin while the office of the City Manager implements administrative actions based on those policies City of Austin residents voted to change that system and as of 2015 10 members of the Council are elected based on geographic districts The Mayor continues to be elected at-large City of Austin Land Development Code: The city's Land Development Code regulates building and development in the city of Austin The Austin Monitor thanks its sponsors. Become one See which district you live in The Austin Monitor is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization We are fully-local and cover the important issues and key decisions at the intersection between the local government and the community With star shortstop Francisco Lindor temporarily sidelined, infielder Luisangel Acuña was called up in September and left a great first impression; in just 40 at-bats he slashed .308/.325/.641 with three home runs The youngster recorded a hit in seven of his 11 games (not counting the other three games without any plate appearances) Acuña has continued his impressive play during the Venezuelan Winter League The 22-year-old led Cardenales de Lara to a doubleheader sweep on Friday by knocking in three runs He's batting .388 in 17 games with four extra-base hits Acuña has played all but one Winter League game at shortstop He's committed three errors in 115 chances at shortstop for a .951 fielding percentage; in his brief stint in the majors Acuña committed only one error in 45 chances over 95.2 innings at shortstop and second base Mets' president of baseball operations David Stearns was impressed with Acuña after his excellent performance down the stretch but it remains to be seen what the 22-year-old can do throughout a full MLB season Acuña only hit .258/.299/.355 in 131 games with the Triple-A Syracuse Mets; that slash line is far below his .280/.351/.401 cumulative slash line across 505 minor league games Acuña's strong audition has given the Mets a good problem to have Considering the organization's significant amount of young talent across the infield while having a franchise shortstop in Lindor (who finished runner-up in NL MVP voting) they need to decide what type of role the 22-year-old will play in the future KERRY KAUFFMANKerry Kauffman is a contributing writer for the Mets On SI site. He has contributed to FanSided, FantasyPros, Sports Injury Alert and Sports Rumor Alert. Kerry graduated from Lehigh University in 1991. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page it seemed like the injury would deal a tough blow to the New York Mets' playoff odds taking advantage of some unlikely production from Lindor's replacement Luisangel Acuña made his MLB debut on Sept. 14, which was the first game Lindor missed all season. He went 2-for-4 in that contest and has hardly slowed down since The Mets trailed the Philadelphia Phillies in the second inning on Saturday until catcher Francisco Alvarez tied things up with a solo home run Acuña gave New York the lead with a solo shot of his own Luisangel Acuña for the lead 🔥 pic.twitter.com/MANdTlhKPi Acuña added a ground-rule double in the sixth and a walk in the eighth The 22-year-old Venezuelan infielder is now batting .385 with three home runs a 1.292 OPS and a 0.6 WAR through one week in the big leagues According to MLB.com's Sarah Langs Acuña's six extra-base hits are tied for the most by a Mets player through their first seven career games with at least one plate appearance Kazuo Matsui also had six to this point in his 2004 rookie campaign Acuña's three home runs also rank second in franchise history under those same qualifications trailing only Mike Jacobs and the five he hit upon his arrival in 2005 most XBH in first 7 career games with at least 1 PA Mets history:2024 Luisangel Acuña: 62004 Kazuo Matsui: 6 He was acquired in the deal that sent Max Scherzer to the Texas Rangers at the 2023 trade deadline 181-pound slugger is the younger brother of Atlanta Braves superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. who has been out with a torn ACL since May Luisangel Acuña could be the one to box his brother's Braves out of the postseason New York owns a 2.0-game lead over Atlanta in the race for the final NL Wild Card spot with seven games left on the slate The upcoming three-game series between the two division rivals will surely play a major role in deciding who makes it to the playoffs but Acuña and the Mets have a chance to extend their lead Sunday as well The Mets and Phillies play for the final time this regular season at 7:15 p.m while Philadelphia is 14-8 and Atlanta is 11-11 Continue to follow our Fastball On SI coverage on social media by liking us on Facebook and by following us on Twitter @FastballFN You can also follow Sam Connon on Twitter @SamConnon Fidencio Acuña Also Accused of Animal Cruelty in More Than Year-old Case SALTON CITY — After evading arrest for more than a year a National City man was arrested on a warrant for charges that included attempted murder assault with a deadly weapon not involving a firearm and cruelty to an animal with intent to kill on charges stemming from an altercation at near or outside his family’s home in Salton City the night of Sept according to Imperial County Chief Deputy Manuel Deleon Some of the details around Acuña’s apprehension were not immediately available but the arrest summary from the Sheriff’s Office has his arrest location listed as the Imperial County jail presumably where custody changed hands after he was extradited The charges appear to stem from a fight between siblings over their dogs the 33-year-old sister of Acuña called 911 to report she had been attacked and injured by her brother Apparently both the sister and Acuña had arrived at a common family location in the 1300 block of Persimmon Avenue when Acuña’s dog started to attack the sister’s dog but she started to yell or try to get Acuña to remove his dog and something caused Acuña to repeatedly kick the sister’s dog in the head which caused the sister to try to stop her brother The Lansing Art Gallery and Education Center has debuted its annual ArtPath exhibition along the Lansing River Trail There are 20 installations by Michigan artists WKAR will be bringing you profiles of some of the artists with work along the trail At the center of this year’s showcase, right in downtown Lansing, you’ll find one piece in the place of an original River Trail sign. It's a mural called "Life In Lansing" by Hector Acuna but he also creates sculptures and 3D animations He described his ArtPath mural as very colorful and vibrant "It has eight to ten relatively large flat shapes that are all varying colors This is Acuna's second time creating a mural for ArtPath you’ll notice some familiar things like the three stacks of the Eckert Power Plant and the State Capitol there is a feature of the human face like an eye or ear He said he wants people looking at the work to be brought into it where their eyes can move throughout the piece and focus on these different areas where they might see something familiar or see something new and surprising." Acuna also called it a reflection of his time in Lansing That’s because he’s moving back to his home state of Wisconsin this summer "I wanted to be able to depart from Lansing and leave behind something that represented the way that I perceived the community of Lansing," he said he described the painting as an idealized version of the city we find things we like and that we don't like about the area," he said very positive and optimistic and hopeful." especially since one of the last pieces of art he’ll create in town will be left behind for the public to enjoy "I just feel really lucky to be able to be given the opportunity to add a little bit of my voice back into this place that's influenced me over the last four years," he said “Life In Lansing” downtown under the Michigan Avenue bridge Spot it from the trail or from the spiral staircase leading down from Michigan Ave a walk and a strikeout in what turned out to be a 4-3 loss starting pitcher Luis Severino picked him off at first only to get picked off again by reliever Reed Garrett The Mets had to challenge the call on the field to get the out The Braves were ultimately unable to score a run in either the fifth or seventh Ronald Acuña Jr. has been picked off at first base TWICE by the Mets tonight pic.twitter.com/rnMh6ER98M Acuña still managed to join a Hall of Famer in the baseball history books Acuña became the first former MVP winner to get picked off twice in the same game since Joe Moran did so on July 9, 1977, per OptaSTATS. That poor performance came on the heels of Morgan's back-to-back NL MVPs with the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 and 1976 Ronald Acuna Jr. was picked off twice in today's game against the Mets. He's the first former MLB MVP award winner to be picked off twice in a game since Joe Morgan on July 9, 1977, versus Houston. pic.twitter.com/PwmMrGqBuF won NL MVP in 2023 after finishing the season with 41 home runs The 26-year-old hasn't come anywhere near that level of production so far in 2024 as he is currently batting just .252 with three home runs Acuña has stolen just one base in his last 10 games Despite Acuña's struggles, and his game-altering blunders on Sunday, the Braves are still 24-13 on the season, which puts them on pace for a 105-win campaign. Atlanta will return home Monday to open a series with the Chicago Cubs Continue to follow our Fastball on FanNation coverage on social media by liking us on Facebook and by following us on Twitter @FastballFN Mangrum’s assistant sent notice on Tuesday to the city’s attorneys and to Doug Becker the assistant instructed Becker to draw up the order and share it with city attorneys That order will include additional fees should the city decide to appeal they will have to pay an additional amount for each step in the appeal process The fees for a trip to the 3rd Court of Appeals will be $25,000 If the city loses at that court and decides to ask for a review by the Texas Supreme Court If the Supreme Court decides to take the case the city will pay the plaintiffs’ attorneys an additional $15,000 for briefing the case If the case includes oral argument at the Supreme Court the city will owe Acuña’s attorneys another $5,000 The city will be required to pay these fees only if the plaintiffs prevail As the Austin Monitor reported in November the plaintiffs in the case were able to convince the court to reject three ordinances that were designed to create more housing Those ordinances included the vertical mixed-use ordinance residential uses in commercial areas and compatibility on corridors Council has already passed a new version of the vertical mixed-use ordinance allowing commercial properties to include housing The court asked Becker to draw up the order and share it with the city’s lawyers and provide it to the court by May 10 the clock starts ticking on the appellate timeline the losing party will have 30 days to file a notice of appeal once the judge signs the final judgment it is not clear whether that rule applies to temporary restraining orders I think the city attorney has waived appeal anyway.” Former Council Member Daryl Slusher has shared his take on the losses by the city’s legal team here Monday (May 5) for more than 3,200 seats on city councils He was found possessing a “ghost gun,” which is illegal in Washington state 12-year-old dies after late-night crash in Enumclaw A Haitian migrant woman holds a child in her arms at the Padre Infante shelter A man carries a boy across the Rio Grande river as migrants some to avoid possible deportation from the U.S wade across the Rio Grande river to leave Del Rio A man carries a girl across the Rio Grande river as migrants A little girl holds on to her Barbie doll as she is carried over the Rio Grande river to Del Rio wade across in the opposite direction to return to Ciudad Acuna A migrant wearing a mask due to the COVID-19 pandemic swims across the Rio Grande river as migrants to avoid possible deportation from the U.S A Haitian migrant child cries at the Padre Infante shelter A Haitian migrant rests his head on a backpack at the Padre Infante shelter A line of Texas Department of Safety vehicles lines the bank of the Rio Grande near an encampment of migrants Members of Mexico’s Migration Institute patrol the area of the Rio Grande that separates the cities of Del Rio A migrant from Haiti removes his sandals before crossing the Rio Grande to Del Rio A migrant sleeps at an improvised refugee camp at a sport park in Ciudad Acuña Migrants prepare to cross the Rio Grande to Del Rio A toy covered with sand from the Rio Grande lays abandoned near the border between the cities of Del Rio A migrant checks his cellphone at an improvised refugee camp at a sport park in Ciudad Acuña line up to receive food at an improvised refugee camp at a sport park in Ciudad Acuña Mexico (AP) — After more than a week at this crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border Haitian migrant Nelson Saintil felt like the walls were beginning to close in on him and his family Saintil was along the banks of the Rio Grande on Wednesday morning with his wife and four children They had returned to Ciudad Acuña the day before after eight days in the squalid camp in Del Rio where as many as 14,000 migrants had gathered deportations to Haiti had pushed them back to Mexico The family constantly reevaluated its situation based on imperfect information “I don’t want to be like the mice who don’t know about the trap and get caught because returning to Haiti is like being buried alive,” Saintil said he and others feared straying far from the growing river camp on the Mexican side because Mexican immigration agents continued picking up migrants around town and conducting overnight raids at the small hotels where some stayed The threat of possible deportation on both sides of the border created the sensation of an open-air jail Without the sort of overwhelming show of force deployed by the United States and Texas on the north side of the border Mexico has been ramping up efforts to relieve migrant numbers at this segment of the border immigration agents and in some cases local police intensified Wednesday with more raids and migrant detentions in hotels and in the streets Empty buses waited for detained migrants outside the local immigration offices some buses would disappear and be replaced by others Mexico’s National Immigration Institute has not provided numbers on how many migrants have been moved from Ciudad Acuña in recent days a couple of immigration vans pulled up outside a small hotel in Ciudad Acuña with National Guardsmen carrying rifles shattered glass rained down from a second floor window and a woman screamed Several migrants were led out with their hands secured behind their backs and loaded into a van an AP journalist found blood spattered on the tiled floor of the room in which they had been staying was the only migrant not taken from the hotel in the raid they knocked on the door and I didn’t open,” he said but he told them he was sick and had to see a doctor A couple families wielded shards of glass to ward off agents and managed to dash out of the hotel with their children and run into the night One migrant accidentally cut himself with the glass would only say that he witnessed part of the action and had never seen anything like it Mexico flew the first planeload of migrants from the border city of Piedras Negras — just downstream from Ciudad Acuña — to the southern city of Villahermosa Mexico was trying to keep more migrants from reaching the northern border Bus lines were reminded not to sell tickets to migrants without proper documentation immigration agents in the northern city of Monterrey a key transportation hub for travel to the border detained about 100 migrants at the bus station who were then flown to Tapachula the number of Haitian migrants arriving at a local shelter had grown exponentially since Sunday Some 1,500 Haitian migrants had arrived to the shelter since Sunday has expanded outside with tents for the overflow “The wave started with the deportation from from the United States which has been done inhumanely,” said José Jaime Salinas “It is the new United States president’s first error because this is being seen around the world.” left Tapachula to head to Monterrey with his family after seeing the situation developing in Ciudad Acuña and Del Rio He and his wife arrived in Monterrey Sunday with their two teenage daughters Their plan is to regularize their status in Mexico and find work even though he conceded that their ultimate destination remains the United States “Without work we can’t do anything,” said the Cap-Haitien native who lived for five years in Santiago Mexico’s immigration agency estimated Wednesday that 3,300 migrants were still on the Del Rio side and 500 to 600 were in Ciudad Acuña That was down from the 8,600 that Texas Gov Greg Abbott reported Tuesday and from the more than 14,000 estimated five days earlier Mexico plans to begin direct flights to Haiti which would initially target Haitian migrants already in Mexico’s detention centers who have not applied for asylum Those with open asylum cases would be flown or bused to Tapachula according to a federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity coordinator of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance told Milenio television Wednesday that “we have had a quantity of people applying like never before in the history of Mexico.” the agency received more than 77,000 applications for asylum already 10% above the previous record in 2019 Dozens of Haitians waited outside the offices of the agency in Mexico City with a seemingly new urgency to legalize their status in Mexico They arrived Wednesday morning from Tapachula He said he paid about $750 for them to travel from Tapachula to the capital on a bus and in a private vehicle Cardin had been in Tapachula for more than a month but the commission cancelled his appointment to apply for asylum Colombia and all of Central America before arriving in Mexico Cardin had seen what was happening at the border — his son’s godfather was expelled by the U.S to Haiti — and wants to make sure he can’t be sent back to Haiti he said he would one day like to make it to the United States We’re obliged to stay here and seek a visa and try to find work here,” he said little by little the migrant camp was growing beside the Rio Grande Small tents and tarps were sprouting to provide shelter for several hundred migrants in a scene reminiscent of camps that have appeared in other border cities like Matamoros listened to the news on a friend’s cellphone His wife and daughter were across the river in Del Rio He had waded back across the river through waist-deep water just to charge his cellphone but said it was possible the whole family would join him in Mexico before the day was through Associated Press photojournalist Felix Marquez in Ciudad Acuña and AP writers Marcos Martínez Chacón in Monterrey and Fabiola Sánchez in Mexico City contributed to this report hitting a mammoth home run against the New York Mets his third home run of the season traveled a whopping 461 feet and further separated him in baseball history RONALD ACUÑA JR461 FT114.2 MPHAcuña now has 12 career 460+ ft HR 3 more than anyone else in MLB since the start of 2018 RONALD ACUÑA JR461 FT114.2 MPHAcuña now has 12 career 460+ ft HR, 3 more than anyone else in MLB since the start of 2018 https://t.co/s5I81eXF9I hit 41 homers last season en route to winning the MVP in the National League and perhaps this will help get him going in 2024 has just the three homers to go along with nine RBI and a .259 average He's not the only star to start slow this year Corbin Carroll (.555 OPS) and Julio Rodriguez (.606 OPS) are both out to massively slow starts in the power department as well All three players are All-Stars and you have to figure they'll get going at some point trailing the Phillies in the National League East by 2.0 games The Mets are 18-19 after the loss and are already eight back The Braves and Mets will play each other again on Saturday afternoon with first pitch from Citi Field coming at 4:10 p.m Max Fried (ATL) will pitch against Christian Scott (NYM) President to visit city where twister touched left seven-block area ‘devastated’ A tornado raged through a city on the US-Mexico border on Monday flinging cars and ripping an infant from its mother’s arms Rescue workers were afterwards digging through the rubble of damaged homes in a race to find victims interior secretary of the northern state of Coahuila Mayor Evaristo Perez Rivera said 300 people were being treated at local hospitals and up to 200 homes had been completely destroyed Firefighters inspect the wreckage of a bus in Ciudad Acuna. Photograph: Reuters“There’s nothing standing, not walls, not roofs,” said Edgar Gonzalez, a spokesman for the city government, describing some of the destroyed homes in a square-mile area. By midday 13 people were confirmed dead: 10 adults and three infants. Family members and neighbours gathered around a pickup truck where the bodies of a woman and two children were laid out in the truck’s bed, covered with sheets. Two relatives reached down to touch the bodies, covered their eyes and wept. Read morePhotos from the scene showed cars with their hoods torn off resting upended against single-storey houses One car’s frame was bent around the gate of a house A bus was seen flipped and crumpled on a roadway The twister struck not long after daybreak around the time buses were preparing to take children to school President Enrique Peña Nieto said he planned to travel to Acuna In the US, a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes dumped record rainfall on parts of the Plains and Midwest, spawning tornadoes and causing major flooding that forced at least 2,000 Texans from their homes Mexico — Mexican authorities have begun rounding up Haitian migrants here in a crackdown that involved law enforcement at every level of government Coahuila state investigative agents, Mexico's federal immigration agency and the National Guard patrolled the streets of Ciudad Acuña on Monday and early Tuesday chasing down dozens of people and loading them into vans Haitian migrants had begun fleeing an encampment on the U.S amid food scarcity and fears they could be returned to Haiti after the Biden administration began processing the migrants for expulsion flights.  The migrants found a newly hostile environment on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande Mexican law enforcement agents exited a convoy on foot multiple times to apprehend people who appeared Haitian the agents loaded them into a van emblazoned with the insignia for Mexico's National Migration Institute More: Facing possible expulsion to Haiti, some migrants leave Del Rio, Texas, encampment More than a half dozen Mexican agents were seen attempting to board one Haitian man into an immigration van as he pushed back and could be heard shouting in Spanish Mis papeles están en la mochila," yelling that his identification papers were in a backpack that agents refused to hand over The agents pushed the man into the van Coahuila's Vanguardia newspaper reported Tuesday that INAMI had chartered flights to transport migrants Chiapas — where Mexico has one of its largest migrant detention centers Mexico's foreign ministry didn't respond Tuesday to multiple requests for information regarding the apparent round-ups or reported flights to Tapachula Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters in a morning news conference that he had been in touch with U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the "significant notable recent flow of Haitian nationals that are coming from Brazil and Chile He didn't address Mexico's response at the northern border, but said that Haitians were receiving false information about opportunities in the U.S "They aren’t asking for refugee status in Mexico except a small percentage of them," Ebrard said "They are basically asking for the freedom to travel to the United States." After the Department of Homeland Security extended permission to apply for Temporary Protected Status to Haitian nationals living inside the U.S "people in the Haitian network told their people in Brazil and Chile ‘you need to go to the United States quickly,'" Ebrard said State Department spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday said Blinken and Ebrard discussed "the common goal of promoting safe and humane migration" as well as "the need for a coordinated regional effort to stem the flow of irregular migration." 'We can't turn back': Haitian migrants face massive expulsion amid crackdown at US-Mexico border Nearly 19,000 Haitian nationals applied for refugee status in Mexico during the first eight months of 2021 three times the roughly 6,000 Haitians who applied for refugee status in all of 2020 according to data from Mexico's refugee agency COMAR's capacity to process applications has been outstripped by demand for refugee status by Haitians Central Americans and other migrants in recent years The federal government last year suspended a rule that required COMAR to resolve applications within 45 days Although Mexico provides applicants with a constancia that affords them provisional legal status in the country it's only good if they stay in the state where they originally applied — for the majority a policy analyst with the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington "So if Mexican authorities apprehend a Haitian migrant who applied for status in Tapachula (in Chiapas) somewhere else they would be considered to have abandoned their application," he said "That is significant because those with conditional status could be deported." Mexico has had a repatriation agreement with Haiti since 2016 See drone footage, satellite images showing thousands of Haitian migrants gathered at Del Rio border Coahuila's top prosecutor, Gerardo Márquez Guevara said in a statement that his office would "provide medical attention and realize patrols in coordination with the three levels of government" at the border Márquez Guevara said in the Sept would work in coordination with INAMI to review foreigners' documentation to confirm whether they have legal status in Mexico He said there would be "checkpoints" and "mixed operations with lookouts in the streets and on the outskirts of the city." spokesman for the municipal government Jaime Escamilla said local police weren't engaging in immigration enforcement but were assisting federal immigration authorities under an agreement Before the encampment in Del Rio swelled to more than 15,000 people and became a thorny issue for the U.S.-Mexico relationship businesses in Ciudad Acuña had catered to the newcomers selling food and drinks and places to stay many of whom have refugee or provisional status in Mexico went largely unmolested by Mexican authorities even as their numbers swelled in this border city of about 124,000 people.  The international bridge connecting Acuña with its sister city of Del Rio, population 35,668 angering residents and the business community The sudden shutdown choked off cross-border legal traffic in both directions blocking residents and commercial trucks and sending people an hour southeast to the crossing at Eagle Pass Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said in a news conference on Monday that CBP needed to redirect personnel to address the urgent humanitarian needs of the migrant camp Although Haitian migration hasn't dominated the U.S.-Mexico relationship in the way Central American migration has in recent years it's emblematic of a more diverse movement of people across the hemisphere from countries around the world "Haitian migrations hasn’t been a principal diplomatic issue but extra-continental migration has," he said "We are seeing a larger share of migrants coming from other parts of the world coming more and more often and that has been a point of bilateral negotiations." speaking to reporters while traveling back to D.C was asked if the Biden administration has asked anything specific of Mexico on Haitian migration "We are of course continue to be in close touch with the Mexican government about how to address a challenging situation at the border including with the number of Haitians who have come across the border," Psaki said or individuals coming from one country," she said "It is a part of a broad and ongoing conversation with the Mexican government about how we can continue to work together to address the migration situation at the border." Joey Garrison and Courtney Subramanian in Washington contributed to this report Lauren Villagran can be reached at lvillagran@elpasotimes.com We found a collection of Standard-Times photos snapped in the border city during the early 1980s The photos did not contain caption information.  We found a photo of the main drag of the city with it's iconic signage as well as murals and  people going about their daily lives.  Acuña is a city in the Mexican state of Coahuila across the border from Del Rio Its bars and restaurants have been made famous song lyrics and movies The opening to George Strait's country hit Blame it on Mexico starts "in a bar in Acuña called Ma Crosby's..."  Director Robert Rodriguez's films El Mariachi and Desperado were filmed in Acuña and Anthony Bourdain had Acuña on his list of stops during an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.  It is the same storm system causing floods in Texas Son 10 las víctima mortales por el #TornadoenAcuñaCoahuila siguen las 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2015Damaged homes stand next to others that were razed when a powerful tornado touched down in Ciudad Acuna Mexico -- A tornado raged through the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Acuna early Monday destroying homes and upending cars and other vehicles spokeswoman for the interior department of the northern state of Coahuila said 10 people had been confirmed killed so far in the twister Photos from the scene showed cars with their hoods ripped off resting upended against the facades of one-story houses One car's frame was literally bent around the gate of a house Ciudad Acuna is a city of about 100,000 across the border from Del Rio Cano said top state officials had set out to review the damage and coordinate response to the disaster It has been my honor to work with three new Placerville City Council members this past year integrity and willingness to learn displayed by Kara Taylor It also is important to publicly recognize our employees Their efforts that keep the city running every single day of the year In early 2019 we completed our department reorganization and added two experienced department heads Nick Stone in Public Works and Terry Zeller in Community Services Combined with our existing management staff the city is meeting calls for service while working to improve and protect our historical town’s many charms It was Terry Zeller and his staff who completed the Main Street request for proposals and helped ensure a bright future for the Confidence Hall and Emigrant Jane buildings Our capable Public Works crews again took on the wrath of nature under Nick Stone’s calm leadership Nick’s crew is to be commended for mastering the fine art of snow plowing sanding ice and clearing downed trees in real time … storm after storm 2019 was the year the economy wouldn’t stop growing Placerville enjoyed steady growth in our sales tax revenue The number of new business openings is steady along with an increase in activity to update and improve our existing commercial buildings Along with this business activity we have witnessed the closing of a number of historical longstanding businesses that served our city for decades and centuries It’s important to honor the years of service these owners and their employees have provided us City Engineering delivered the Western Placerville Interchange project the largest Public Works project in city history Measures L and H projects keep moving forward despite the challenges of 100-year-old pipes unmapped infrastructure and relentless storms City Engineer Rebecca Neves took management of our most expensive city investment in 2019 the water reclamation facility … or sewer plant I thank her for ensuring that facility and investment is fully staffed Engineering staff is focused on 2020 becoming known as the year we set a record for completed paving projects in Placerville Placerville felt the strain of the homeless issue on many fronts Our 19police department remains dedicated to helping any person who requests assistance providing 24/7 first contact for any member of our community at risk Our officers began working with the El Dorado County sheriff’s Homeless Outreach Team to address chronic homelessness.Sadly none of this is enough for a problem that is global in its proportions — we are called on to do more to spend funds or use resources that simply do not exist Progress is painfully slow but while these programs and funds become established I call on the entire faith-based community to open their facilities to aid these citizens in need To those few churches that continue to help and serve you have the thanks and gratitude of your community We began 2019 with very real fear of wildfire after painfully watching the city of Paradise burn in November 2018 a month that normally should be far removed from wildfires We ended the year disappointed with a longtime for allowing its system to become unsafe during heightened wind conditions the city is thankful for the hard work and dedication of our new wildfire safety advocates creating an organization separate from the city education programs and open to all our residents We are now vastly better prepared because of their efforts With their expert assistance and community collaboration we created a new Fire Safe Ordinance We must remain on guard against complacency as the memory of Paradise fades In October Placerville and Northern California faced new threats The losses and impacts from the PG&E public safety power shutoff events were very real at every level of this community We cannot allow this type of disruption to occur unless real windstorm conditions exist PG&E has an obligation to modernize and repair its facilities to withstand normal weather conditions They need to listen to local experts and accept real-time City staff worked countless hours with El Dorado County Fire to press PG&E leadership during every PSPS event Former fire chief Lloyd Ogan is to be commended for his tireless efforts to provide factual fire-science information to PG&E His efforts clearly illustrated the lack of risk to PG&E and the real risks created by needless power outages Placerville and Main Street enjoy a rich history art deco and modern “historic stucco” from the 1960s The need to remain a working town is stronger than ever Placerville Drive and Broadway all possess unique histories — their strength — and need to be respected I look forward to preserving the “Ketchup and Mustard” buildings and their continued service to Main Street’s historical culture and streetscape cultural programs and historic displays are wonderful ideas; to allow these ideas to flourish it will take large numbers of dedicated volunteers and advocates to fund and operate them We need to work as a community to address historic preservation while maintaining and respecting property owners’ rights Under Pierre Rivas’ leadership the “second floor” where Community Services operates residents and the council address concerns large and small We turned to planning staff to address cannabis licenses The second floor handles these issues and many more all while issuing record numbers of building permits for commercial and residential projects Construction was very much alive in Placerville in 2019 I say thank you for making me stop and think respectful communication is always healthy and welcome With our need to provide more and better services new ideas must be found to improve Placerville’s income streams Our department heads stretch their budgets and work as a team and this willingness is a magnificent gift — but we must find new income so they city will remain viable Working to better showcase our region’s many attractions like gold mining history Apple Hill and winery tours needs to be part of our story I thank City Manager Cleve Morris for his steady leadership in 2019 The challenges were many and wildly varied is an inspiration as he works to address issues City government isn’t for the faint of heart And now to hit a few interesting moments while I was mayor: To city staff and the City Council for attending many long serious and contentious meetings — you have my sincere thanks Mark Acuna is the former mayor of Placerville and serves on the City Council Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Have the latest local news delivered every afternoon so you don't miss out on updates Receive occasional local offers from our website and its advertisers summary of the weather details and news of any severe weather We'll send breaking news and news alerts to you as they happen Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico (AP) — After more than a week at this crossing on the U.S.-Mexico border Reports of U.S. deportations to Haiti had pushed them back to Mexico Without the sort of overwhelming show of force deployed by the United States and Texas on the north side of the border National Guard troops accompanied immigration agents on operations during recent nights Sometimes they picked up migrants from the street and loaded them into vans Mexico also plans to begin direct flights to Haiti Little by little the migrant camp in Ciudad Acuña was growing beside the Rio Grande The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said in a statement Wednesday that it had been in Ciudad Acuña since Monday offering services to the migrants “The situation of dozens of thousands of migrants in Mexico is unsustainable and of an extreme vulnerability due to the failure of asylum policies and continual deportations,” it said AP photographer Felix Marquez in Ciudad Acuña and writer Marcos Martínez Chacón in Monterrey contributed to this report As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to keep many people at home more often Austin Resource Recovery finds itself steadily losing the staff needed to manage the increased volume of household garbage City Council passed a resolution Oct 1 to mitigate what Zero Waste Advisory Commission Chair Gerard Acuna called the “poaching” of ARR staff by private delivery and garbage companies The resolution asks City Manager Spencer Cronk to explore opportunities to improve operator retention and determine the feasibility of resuming regular collection services spoke briefly about the staffing issue before the vote to approve “Due to health and safety and staffing concerns over the past few months ARR has limited or altered certain services,” Alter said families are generating more household waste than before the pandemic and so my staff and I engaged with city staff to find a path toward the safe resumption of these services.” ARR Director Ken Snipes brought up the issue of increased household waste during a proposed budget presentation at the July 17 Zero Waste Advisory Commission meeting When commissioners Kaiba White and Cathy Gattuso questioned a proposal by ARR to stop fees on excess garbage Snipes said the proposal was a part of a larger move by the city across all departments to provide relief for residents who find themselves at home more often “The idea was to not penalize those who were at home all of a sudden because of the virus and one of the things we knew was that trash that would ordinarily have been part of the commercial waste stream was shifting to homes,” Snipes said Alter said as she and her staff researched solutions for the issue they discovered that the city was underpaying waste collection staff compared to the private sector Acuna argued a similar point at the Zero Waste meeting saying that the city needs to provide more employee incentives to counteract the “aggressive recruitment” of ARR drivers by private companies you and I aren’t going to the grocery store or the pharmacy or whatever we’re relying on good ol’ Amazon and good ol’ UPS and good ol’ FedEx and all these delivery folks to bring us our necessities,” Acuna told the Austin Monitor these folks are in dire need of additional drivers.” the Fiscal Year 2021 proposed budget for ARR listed personnel expenses Acuna said the city needs a bigger selling point to compete with these companies which can provide drivers with hiring bonuses and bigger paychecks the city’s employee benefits are one of those selling points but he said the city needs to be more innovative to keep personnel from leaving 33 ARR employees resigned between January and July which is typically how many resign over the entire year “You’ve got to convince the young guy who’s worried about how much money is in the bank on Friday we’re all in that same boat at times,” Acuna said One of the innovative benefits Acuna had brainstormed with Snipes is the use of ARR-owned land plots to develop housing for employees Acuna said the department owns several parcels of real estate including a closing landfill that has areas not previously used for storing garbage although the Council resolution itself does not mention any specific solutions Acuna said he was grateful to Snipes for helping carry the resolution to Council “He’s faced with this challenge every single day where you don’t know if you’re going to have enough guys to get in those trucks and get those collections done,” Acuna said Photo made available through a Creative Commons license Austin Resource Recovery: Formerly Solid Waste Services The department in charge of handling solid waste disposal and curbside composting for the City of Austin City of Austin Zero Waste Advisory Commission: An Austin City Council advisory commission Its members are charged to "[r]eview and analyze the policies and resources relating to solid waste management in the city and advise council on solid waste management policies and resources." Formerly the Solid Waste Advisory Commission KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A fatal shooting in northeast Kansas City, Missouri, Friday night marks the city's 180th homicide of the year and makes 2023 the city's deadliest year on record, according to the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department according to KCPD spokesperson Jake Becchina Investigators are working to identify the victim to the 5200 block of Lyon Avenue on a reported shooting officers located the victim — later identified as 31-year-old Gerardo Acuna — unresponsive in the street outside of a vehicle EMS arrived shortly after officers and provided aid to Acuna but he was pronounced deceased at the scene Those who called police reportedly heard gunshots looked outside and saw Acuna on the ground in the street “This is one of 180 this year," Becchina said at the scene I don’t know what other word to use for that.” Becchina's interview at the scene with reporters Friday night was interrupted by the sound of gunfire in the distance Detectives went door to door on the block Friday night that’s when I heard the sirens coming down here said she moved to the neighborhood three months ago after experiencing gun violence at her apartment complex at East 43rd Street and The Paseo She was worried on Friday night that bullets would fly through her walls once again I thought they were shooting at my porch —I'm in the house doing the little conversations around safety and respect for life have already started in her household I just try to keep to myself — just me and my kids over here in our own little bubble," said Jones Barbara Steffens is also making sense of the the record-breaking homicide She says there's been a spike in non-violent crimes here lately Crime scene investigators are processing the scene and trying to find out what led up to the shooting Prior to this year's 180th homicide in KCMO 2020 was the city's deadliest year on record with 179 homicides This story will be updated as information becomes available Crime Stoppers could offer you a cash reward Report a typo Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker the artist and designer has inserted the sculptures into open spaces audiences are invited to reflect on the use of public spaces in the city and our behavior as citizens all images courtesy of claudio acuña j. each of the figures are created by claudio acuña j. from a square piece of paper without making any cuts but instead using the technique of origami the intricate sculptures are made a scale of 1:1 to achieve a daily ‘mirror’ of the inhabitants of the city what results in a strong visual impact when viewed together the project in essence highlights how cities are build by the people that inhabit them ‘the figures are installed so that they can be intervened by people interact with them or take them to another place project name: ‘plegados itinerantes’ (travelling folds) artist: claudio acuña j. designboom has received this project from our ‘DIY submissions‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here. AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style A tornado that hit the Mexican town of Ciudad Acuna on Monday morning killed at least 13 people, while across the border in Texas 12 people are reported missing after severe flooding The tornado in Ciudad Acuna, a town of 125,000 people across from Del Rio, Texas, struck as children were headed to their school buses, CBS News reports A baby in its carrier was ripped from its mother's arms and 400 homes were destroyed At least 300 people are hospitalized for injuries 2,000 people had to evacuate their homes during heavy rains which hit towns along the Blanco River in the central part of the state especially hard was hospitalized after the house where he was staying with his family and friends came off its foundation and struck a bridge as the water carried it down the river His wife and two children are among the dozen people missing after the flooding From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Catherine Garcia, The Week USSocial Links NavigationCatherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014 Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 2015Damage is seen in Ciudad Acuna from a tornado that raged through the border city on Monday 2015.Coahuila State GovernmentMEXICO CITY -- A tornado raged through a city on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday flinging cars like matchsticks and ripping an infant from its mother's arms 12 people were reported missing in flash flooding from a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes The baby was also missing after the twister that hit Ciudad Acuna Rescue workers began digging through the rubble of damaged homes in a race to find victims Hundreds of people were being treated at local hospitals and as many as 800 homes had been destroyed describing some of the destroyed homes in a 3-square kilometer (1 square mile) stretch 13 bodies had been recovered - 10 adults and three infants Family members and neighbors gathered around a pickup truck where the bodies of a woman and two children were laid out in the truck's bed Two relatives reached down to touch the bodies Photos from the scene showed cars with their hoods torn off resting upended against single-story houses One car's frame was bent around the gate of a house the weather system dumped record rainfall on parts of the Plains and Midwest spawning tornadoes and causing major flooding that forced at least 2,000 Texans from their homes A vacation house in Texas was swept away by a rain-swollen river The storms were blamed for three deaths Saturday and Sunday including two in Oklahoma and one in Texas where a man's body was recovered from a flooded area along the Blanco River which rose 26 feet in an hour and created huge piles of debris The line of heavy weather was expected to linger over a large swath of the region Monday Among the worst-affected communities were Wimberley and San Marcos which are in Central Texas along the Blanco River in the corridor between Austin and San Antonio "It looks pretty bad out there," Hays County emergency management coordinator Kharley Smith said of Wimberley where an estimated 350 to 400 homes were destroyed "We do have whole streets with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs." About 1,000 homes were damaged throughout Hays County Five San Marcos police cars were washed away Rivers swelled so quickly that whole communities awoke Sunday surrounded by water The Blanco crested above 40 feet - more than triple its flood stage of 13 feet The river swamped Interstate 35 and forced parts of the busy north-south highway to close Rescuers used pontoon boats and a helicopter to pull people out After a surge of mud and water flooded their cottage in Wimberley John and Valerie Nelson fled through waist-deep waters in darkness early Sunday with transformers sparking and trees crashing around them The single-story house had been carefully rebuilt on stilts so that it would be able to withstand even the worst flooding "I'm absolutely dumbfounded," said Valerie Nelson who has owned the property for about 50 years "I didn't think the water would ever get that high." Hundreds of trees along the Blanco were uprooted or snapped and they collected in piles of debris that soared 20 feet high "We've got trees in the rafters," said Cherri Maley the property manager of a house where the structure's entire rear portion collapsed with the flooding "We had the refrigerator in a tree," she said "I think it's a total loss." A tornado briefly touched down Sunday in Houston blowing out windows and sending at least two people to a hospital Fire officials said 10 apartments were heavily damaged and 40 others sustained lesser damage Dallas faced severe flooding from the Trinity River which was expected to crest near 40 feet Monday and lap at the foundations of an industrial park The Red and Wichita rivers also rose far above flood stage The recent rainfall may officially end the drought that has gripped the region for years a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's office in Norman He said many lakes and reservoirs are full .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Ken Thorbourne | The Jersey JournalA popular Jersey City Heights waitress was likely strangled by her husband and then folded into a cement-filled 55-gallon drum in which her remains were discovered this week now faces murder charges after police made the grisly discovery of Lehrer’s remains Friday night in the basement of the Charles Street apartment building where the couple once lived with their 1-year-old daughter One of the last times she was seen publicly was leaving Tommy’s Family Restaurant on Central Avenue where she worked on Aug “We believe this (murder) occurred during the course of a domestic violence situation and it could be that she was strangled,” Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday “We believe it happened shortly after she was last seen alive.” is being held on $1 million bail at the Hudson County Correctional Facility and is expected to make his first appearance on the murder charges this afternoon at Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City via a videolink with the jail Acuna was considered a person-of-interest and was briefly held on outstanding warrants Acuna went to stay with his father in Toms River which is where he was arrested late Friday Acuna’s father assumed custody of the couple’s daughter after Lehrer went missing but DeFazio wasn’t sure yesterday who was taking care of the child owner of Tommy’s Restaurant where Lehrer worked for nearly four years last saw her on Friday Aug “I never thought he (Acuna) would do something like that He was very quiet when he came here,” Diakos said yesterday The baby is going to miss her more than anybody else.” Jersey City police used “cadaver dogs” to search the couple’s apartment Jersey City police ascertained that tenants in the building had access to the basement Based on that information they got permission from the owner of the property to inspect the basement,” DeFazio said “They discovered this barrel that was hidden by construction-type debris,” DeFazio said they said something didn’t look right about the barrel.” The barrel was opened and Lehrer’s remains were found “encased” in concrete There was no evidence that she was dismembered further corroboration was obtained at the time of autopsy” on Saturday Acuna told investigators when he was brought back to Jersey City and formally charged Journal staff writer Charles Hack contributed to this story Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. 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Cars were sent flying through the city and onto roofs and widespread damage was reported Officials are reviewing damage in the border city to deliver more detailed reports This weekend, catastrophic flooding and intense storms pushed through the southern Plains killing several and displacing hundreds of others across Texas and Oklahoma We recognize our responsibility to use data and technology for good We may use or share your data with our data vendors The Weather Channel is the world's most accurate forecaster according to ForecastWatch, Global and Regional Weather Forecast Accuracy Overview injuring more than 200 others and ripping an infant from a mother's grasp The Associated Press reports that the tornado killed at least 14 people and damaged buildings and cars as it hit the border city of Ciudad Acuna At least 230 others were injured and four are still missing due to the tornado Texas where 1 inch hail was reported,\\\" weather.com meteorologist Linda Lam said.  (MORE: Catastrophic Flash Floods Sweep Through Oklahoma, Texas) Mexico government official Victor Zamora told NBC News that a seven block area in Ciudad Acuna was \\\"devastated.\\\" Cars were sent flying through the city and onto roofs and widespread damage was reported.  is home to more than 100,000 people.  Officials are reviewing damage in the border city to deliver more detailed reports.  This weekend, catastrophic flooding and intense storms pushed through the southern Plains killing several and displacing hundreds of others across Texas and Oklahoma.  WOAI-TV reporting 10 dead an after apparent tornado hits the border town of Ciudad Acuna, Mexcio near Del Rio, TX. pic.twitter.com/SMJ6M2atsy Mexico - A tornado raged through a city on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday flinging cars like matchsticks and ripping an infant from its mother's arms 12 people were reported missing after the vacation home they were staying in was swept away by rushing floodwaters in a small town popular with tourists describing some of the destroyed homes in a 1-square-mile stretch 13 people were confirmed dead - 10 adults and three infants One car's frame was bent around the gate of a house Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he planned to travel to Acuna later in the day with officials from government agencies a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes dumped record rainfall on parts of the Plains and Midwest Witnesses reported seeing the swollen Blanco River push the vacation house off its foundation and smash it into a bridge One person who was rescued from the home told workers that the other 12 inside were all connected to two families You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Mexico — A tornado raged through a city on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday 13 bodies had been recovered — 10 adults and three infants Family members and neighbors gathered around a pickup truck where the bodies of a woman and two children were laid out in the truck's bed where a man's body was recovered from a flooded area along the Blanco River "It looks pretty bad out there," Hays County emergency management coordinator Kharley Smith said of Wimberley "We do have whole streets with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs." The Blanco crested above 40 feet — more than triple its flood stage of 13 feet "I'm absolutely dumbfounded," said Valerie Nelson "I didn't think the water would ever get that high." "We've got trees in the rafters," said Cherri Maley the property manager of a house where the structure's entire rear portion collapsed with the flooding "We had the refrigerator in a tree," she said a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's office in Norman Isabella Acuña isn't your average 12-year-old she wears arms full of colorful bracelets and fingers bedecked with glittery rings But Acuña is an enterprising young 'un with a passion for chickens of course — Acuña has been a vegetarian since kindergarten — but rather as pets The problem lies in the City of Houston Code of Ordinances which stipulates location restrictions for fowl: They may not be "kept or possessed within 100 feet of any actual residence or habitation of human beings," including churches It didn't take long for the family to realize that the hens were more than just engines for egg-laying; they're pets with personalities and peculiarities akin to a household cat purchased their first batch of chicks about three years ago Omlet and Ginger would follow family members with curiosity a bantam chicken who is Acuña's favorite would peck on the French door in the living room until she was allowed in then curl up on the couch next to Acuña to watch television when the Acuñas received a citation for having the coop too close to the neighboring houses The family had to ship off their brood to live with grandparents in Pearland Since then, Acuña has been on a mission — under the banner of Hens for Homes — to amend the ordinance to a number not based upon an arbitrary distance She has researched other city's ordinances to get an idea of the standard (some cities have no distance restrictions; for most it's between 20 to 30 feet from dwellings) and to draw up revised ordinance language Acuña carries a thick binder brimming with that paperwork media outlets and pretty much anyone who will listen And all of this enthusiasm has gained support for the cause. An online petition has garnered over 700 signatures, some of them from as far away Scotland. A countertop petition at Wabash Antiques & Feed Store has raised awareness for other local chicken-keepers who thought that they were in compliance with the rules we'll all be allowed to keep backyard coops — and we'll have this fervent middle schooler to thank The issue also strikes a chord with Beth Bonnette, principal at Woodrow Wilson Montessori, where Acuña will enter seventh grade in the fall. An Eagle Scout candidate has proposed to build a coop for his service project and chicken-rearing will become part of a larger "where our food comes from" curriculum "People have mostly been very supportive," Acuña told CultureMap. She has passed a busy summer, visiting with city council members Ed Gonzalez, James Rodriguez, Stephen Costello and Ellen Cohen; Laura Spanjian, Mayor Annise Parker's sustainability director; restaurateurs like Monica Pope; and leaders like Gracie Cavnar from Recipe for Success Many have suggested that the passionate preteen continue to assemble community support for the Hens for Homes initiative one that Acuña believes will promote environmental stewardship and healthy It's a sad fact that stray, pregnant dogs are often the most difficult animals to adopt out. Tito’s Vodka for Dog People (VFDP) and Houston-based nonprofit Three Little Pitties Rescue have teamed up to create a new "mutt-ernity" makeover suite aimed at helping these pups find forever homes “The investment from Tito’s Handmade Vodka has propelled the rescue's ability to completely change the future for thousands of puppies and mommy dogs in the Houston area," said Alayna Matranga Goodson executive director at Three Little Pitties Rescue we are able to move in desperate nursing or pregnant dogs that have nowhere else to turn and give them a comfortable and safe environment to have their babies We are thrilled to have VFDP come in and revitalize the nurseries to make it a welcoming and joyful-looking environment not only for the dogs but also for the staff and volunteers who care for them and investment from Tito's boost the morale among our team and validate the work that we are doing We are honored to have Tito's trust to take this investment and save lives with it.” The new suite includes better staging areas for photos so that dogs can reach more potential adopters a dedicated puppy-cuddling area for volunteers (always a top priority) The Tito’s team and Three Little Pitties recently rescued Lucy a stray who was forced to give birth to her litter in a landfill Lucy received treatment and grooming at the mutt-ernity suite and she and her litter are currently thriving was treated and housed at the suite before being flown to Washington after a family there adopted her “Three Little Pitties has created something truly special – a safe welcoming place for one of the most overlooked dog populations: stray pregnant dogs," said Beth Bellanti program director for Tito’s Vodka for Dog People "Their work ensures that these dogs can safely bring their puppies into the world and find the loving homes they deserve and we’re incredibly honored to help support it."" Tito's is a vodka brand founded in Austin in 1997 by Tito Beveridge The VFDP program has been part of the company almost since its founding and has headed multiple homeless pet projects across Texas including tens of thousands of spays and neuters Three Little Pitties is one of Houston's best-known non-profit animal rescues