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Tuesday Evening Story Time Time: 7 p.m. today Place: Cortland Community Library, 63 S. Somonauk Road Information: 815-756-7274 or www. cortlandlibrary.com
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Kishwaukee Sunrise Rotary Time: 7 a.m. today Place: Kishwaukee Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive Information: 815-901-5326 Job Club Time: 9 to 11 a.m. today Place: Illinois WorkNet Center, 650B N. Peace Road Information: 815-901-0177, ext. 250, or billi.tierney@kishwaukeecollege.edu Salvation Army Food Pantry Time: 9 a.m. to noon today Place: 830 Grove St. Call 815-756-4308 to volunteer. Those needing food pantry assistance should be prepared to show a state-issued photo ID and proof of DeKalb County residency. Easy Does It AA (C) Time: 9:30 a.m. today Place: 312 E. Taylor St. Information: 800-452-7990 or www. dekalbalanoclub.com Living with Cancer: Chair Yoga Time: 9:30 a.m. today Place: KishHealth System Cancer Center Information: 815-748-2958 Networking for Families Time: Noon to 1 p.m. today Place: DeKalb County Health Department Multi-Purpose Room, 2574 N. Annie Glidden Road Information: 815-748-2435 Networking for Families provides an opportunity to share information about services and activities in DeKalb County that help families have a good quality of life. St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Time: 3 to 6 p.m. today Place: St. Mary Ministry Center, the corner of Fourth St. and Fisk Ave. Information: 815-758-5432 Beginning and Intermediate ESL Classes Time: 5:30 to 8:10 p.m. today Place: Conexion Comunidad, 637 N. 11th St., use front or side entrance Information: 815-825-2086, ext. 3180 Free English as a Second Language class taught by qualified instructors. Childcare is available for children from birth to age 10. Better Off Sober AA (C) Time: 6:30 p.m. today Place: 312 E. Taylor St. Information: 800-452-7990 or www. dekalbalanoclub.com Good Vibes Al-Anon Time: 7 p.m. today Place: First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St. Information: 815-895-8119 Sexaholics Anonymous Time: 7 p.m. today Place: 512 Normal Road, in the brick building behind the church Veterans Peer Support Group Time: 7 to 8 p.m. today Place: Ben Gordon Center, 12 Health Services Drive Information: 815-756-4875 or 815793-6972 Free group available to all veterans. Information: 815-508-0280 DeKalb Masonic Lodge No. 144 Time: 7:30 p.m. today Place: DeKalb Masonic Temple, Fairview Drive and South Fourth Street Information: 815-508-3878 or dekalbmason@gmail.com Jazz Jam Time: 7:30 p.m. today Place: The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway Information: 815-275-4884 Sign up begins at 7:30 p.m. and performances begin at 8 p.m. Musicians are welcome to bring their instruments and join the jam. Program of Recovery AA (C) Time: 8 p.m. today Place: 312 E. Taylor St. Information: 800-452-7990 or www. dekalbalanoclub.com
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Moms in the Park Time: 10 a.m. today Place: Chamberlain Park, 400 E. Second St. Information: 815-751-5526 or sheerlady@hotmail.com Moms meet and socialize while kids play. Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Time: 6 p.m. today Place: CrossWind Community Church, 13100 Cherry Road Information: 815-784-3480
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Miss Universe show, host apologize for crowning wrong woman winner The Associated Press NEW YORK – The Miss Universe pageant and host Steve Harvey doubled down on the apologies Monday after an excruciating live television moment – announcing incorrectly that Miss Colombia had won and then taking the crown from her head to give to a rival from the Philippines. The fallout from Sunday’s show made Harvey an online symbol of “oops” moments, drew a reaction from Colombia’s president and even a gloating tweet from Donald Trump, the pageant’s former owner. As televised on Fox, the contest was down to Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo of Colombia and Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines when Harvey, a first-time Miss Universe host, proclaimed Gutierrez the winner after a long dramatic pause. Music swelled, Gutierrez was fitted for a sash, given flowers and a crown was placed on her head. That made it two straight Miss Universe winners for Colom-
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Steve Harvey holds up the card showing the winners after he incorrectly announced Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez at the winner at the Miss Universe pageant Sunday in Las Vegas. bia, where the pageants are taken seriously. She bathed in applause for nearly two minutes before Harvey slowly made his way back onto the stage. “I have to apologize,” he said. “The first runner-up is Colombia.” The camera switched to a bewildered-looking Wurtzbach, who came back on the stage to get the crown as the same celebratory music repeated. Harvey said she’d be taking her first walk as
Miss Universe, but mostly she stood immobile. A woman stood in between the two contestants, trying to comfort Gutierrez by rubbing her back. Two minutes later, the comedian who hosts his own daytime talk show as well as the game show “Family Feud” returned, saying “let me just take control of this.” Harvey explained on the air that he misread the card he was given with the names of the winners. Colombia was
listed as the first runner-up, and he’d been confused with how it was written. He held up the card for the camera. “It is my mistake,” he said. “Still, it’s a great night. Please don’t hold it against the ladies. We feel very badly, but it’s still a great night.” Harvey later tweeted an apology to the women and viewers. “I feel terrible,” he wrote. The Miss Universe organization also issued an apology Monday. Wurtzbach later said she was happy to win, but confused and concerned for her rival. She said she tried to approach her backstage, but the Colombian contestant was crying and surrounded by a crowd of women. “I did not take the crown from her,” Wurtzbach said. Celebrations quickly turned to anger in Colombia, where the hashtag “Respect the Crown” was the country’s top trending topic on Twitter. Even the president was upset. “They put the crown on her head,” President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday. “The photos are there to prove it. To me, as a Colombian, she is still Miss Universe.”
Vegas suspect: She’s stressed living in car By SALLY HO and KEN RITTER The Associated Press LAS VEGAS – A homeless woman accused of slamming a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip told authorities she was stressed out after being chased by security guards from parking lots where she had been trying to sleep before the crash, according to a police report obtained Monday. Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, resided in Oregon and had been in Las Vegas for about a week in her 1996 Oldsmobile sedan, parking it at garages throughout the city, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. After her arrest, Holloway “described a stressful period today where she was trying to rest/sleep inside her vehicle with her daughter but kept getting run off by security of the properties she stopped at,” the police report states. “She ended up on the Strip, ‘a place she did not want to be,’ ” the report quoted her as saying. “She would not explain why she drove onto the
sidewalk but remembered a body bouncing off her windshield, breaking it.” Investigators said Holloway had run out of money and she and her daughter had been living in the car. Police believe she was headed to Dallas to find her daughter’s father after they had a falling out. Holloway is accused of intentionally mowing down people on a Lakeisha N. busy stretch of Las Vegas BouHolloway levard, killing a woman from Arizona and injuring dozens of others on Sunday night. After the crash, she parked at a casino a few blocks away, told a parking attendant that she had run down people and asked the valet to call 911, Lombardo said. Her daughter, who was in the backseat, was not hurt. The sheriff said Holloway was stoic when police arrived, showed no resistance and spoke coherently about what happened. He declined to elaborate on what she said. “She didn’t appear to be
distressed due to her actions. That’s the best way I can describe it,” Lombardo said. Authorities declined to comment on a potential motive and said they were struggling to piece together Holloway’s background. She had changed her name to Paris Paradise Morton in October, according to Oregon court records. Several years ago, Holloway, a graduate of an alternative high school, received an award for overcoming adversity from the nonprofit Portland Opportunities Industrial Center. In 2012, she told The Skanner, a newspaper that covers Portland’s African-American community, that she was homeless during her freshman year in high school. Holloway’s cousin, Lashay Hardaway, told The Oregonian that Holloway worked hard to provide for her daughter. The crash happened in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels and across from dancing water fountains of the Bellagio hotel-casino. Droves of visitors to the stretch walk from one
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casino to another. The Miss Universe pageant was being held at Planet Hollywood at the time of the crash. People jumped on the car and banged on its windows, but Holloway didn’t stop driving on the sidewalk, Lombardo said. The car was fully on the sidewalk twice, including once when it traveled for 200 feet, police said. There was no evidence that Holloway had consumed alcohol, but a drug recognition expert at the scene determined that she was under the influence of some sort of stimulant, Lombardo said. Holloway, who was being held without bail, will be charged with murder with a deadly weapon, said Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, who anticipated “a great number” of additional charges. “When a person drives a 2,000-pound-plus motor vehicle intentionally onto a sidewalk, killing and injuring scores of people, that’s murder,” Wolfson said. Holloway was under suicide watch at jail, said Deputy Clark County Public Defender Scott Coffee said.
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FDA eases restrictions on blood donations from gay men By MATTHEW PERRONE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The nation’s three-decade-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men was formally lifted Monday, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can give blood. The Food and Drug Administration said it is replacing the lifetime ban with a new policy barring donations from men who have had sex with a man in the previous year. While the one-year ban has been criticized by activ-
ists it matches policies in other countries, including Australia, Japan and the U.K. Gay rights activists said the new policy is a “step in the right direction,” but falls short. “It continues to stigmatize gay and bisexual men,” said David Stacy, of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. gay rights group. “It simply cannot be justified in light of current scientific research and updated blood screening technology.” Monday’s policy shift was first proposed in late 2014
and follows years of lobbying by medical groups and gay rights groups, who said the previous ban was outdated and perpetuated negative stereotypes. Dr. Peter Marks of the FDA said the change is “backed by sound scientific evidence” and will “continue to protect our blood supply.” The FDA considered eliminating all restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but concluded that would increase the transmission of HIV through the blood supply by 400 per-
cent. “An increase of that magnitude is not acceptable,” Marks told reporters. All U.S. blood donations are screened for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But there is a roughly 10-day window between initial infection and when the virus can be detected by current testing techniques. The American Red Cross estimates the risk of getting an HIV-positive blood donation is 1 in 1.5 million for all U.S. patients. About 15.7 million blood donations are collected in the
U.S. each year. The lifetime ban was put in place during the early years of the AIDS crisis and was intended to protect the blood supply from what was then a little-understood disease. The FDA concluded that moving to a one-year abstinence requirement would not change the safety of U.S. blood donations, based primarily on data from Australia. That country has had a one-year rule for active gay and bisexual men for over 10 years.